Chapter 22Introducing OTP
OTP stands for the Open Telecom Platform. The name is actually misleading, because OTP is far more general than you might think. It’s an application operating system and a set of libraries and procedures used for building large-scale, fault-tolerant, distributed applications. It was developed at the Swedish telecom company Ericsson and is used within Ericsson for building fault-tolerant systems. The standard Erlang distribution contains the OTP libraries.
OTP contains a number of powerful tools—such as a complete web server, an FTP server, a CORBA ORB,[34] and so on—all written in Erlang. OTP also contains state-of-the-art tools for building telecom applications with implementations of H248, SNMP, and an ASN.1-to-Erlang ...
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