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Understand CPaaS, step by step
Plain-language guides, use cases and research from the community, with a source for every claim. New here? Begin with the five short reads below.
The library
What CPaaS actually is, and what it is not
The category is defined more clearly by what it replaced than by any vendor's feature list. A working definition, what it is often confused with, and three questions that separate a real platform from a reseller.
The five layers of a communications stack, and which one you are actually shopping for
Most evaluations compare transport — getting a message to a phone — which is the commodity layer. The four layers above it are where programmes succeed or fail, and where switching gets expensive.