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CPaaS

Communications Platform as a Service: comms features for developers, via APIs.

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Communications Platform as a Service. Building blocks — SMS, voice, video, verification — that developers stitch into their own apps through APIs rather than buying a finished product. Twilio made the category famous. If your app texts you a code, that's CPaaS at work.

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