Night Exchange, the recently launched adult chat site from Lavalife, is using the Corraleta online telephony application, as developed by Mexuar Communications, to handle customer calls. Adapted for Lavalife using the latest SDK technology, Corraleta enables Night Exchange customers to use a specially customised click-to-talk softphone for their online, adult chat.

Corraleta is a platform independent application built around the Asterisk open source telephony engine and running on the Java Virtual Machine. Using a standard web browser and broadband connection, users dial the softphone and make a 'live' call in less than 10 seconds. The call is initiated and carried through VoIP and can break out to standard PBX servers.

The system is highly secure: there is no software to install, thereby avoiding viruses; no ports are opened which could lead to firewall issues; and no routing takes place via unknown PCs or servers. Correlata uses IAX protocol, resulting in a tiny footprint of only 125kb for click-to-talk applications, and with easy NAT router and firewall transition. It also uses less bandwidth than SIP.

Ian McDermott, Managing Director of Mexuar said:
"Corraleta uses Java technology and, by developing a softphone application using SDK, it's a powerful tool in bridging the internet and telecommunications. When Lavalife started developing the Night Exchange website, it needed a product that could be used universally at the click of a button, and SDK is successful in delivering this aim."

He adds: "Our applications support web users interacting directly with customer service agents and are proven to boost sales and overall service - especially in higher-value sales transactions. Corraleta SDK delivers Click-To-Talk 2.0 for businesses, enabling them to quickly deploy platform neutral applications that bring significant cost savings."