TAPI-new age technology

The Telephony Applications Programing Interface(TAPI) is an important API provided by Microsoft. TAPI is the set of APIs to manage and manipulate any type of communications link between a PC and a telephone line. The TAPI standard has a uniform set of funtionality that can be used to communicate with any type of hardware that support TAPI-compliant service provider interface(SPI). Many different PC telephony models have been available for many years but the introduction of TAPI with its wide availability on MS windows plateform has brought standardization and acceptance of one specific computer telephony interface.