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Ribbon Joins AWS Partner Network

Ribbon Communications Inc. is now part of the AWS Partner Network.

APN is the global partner program for Amazon Web Services. It helps partners build successful businesses based on AWS. And it provides them with business, go-to-market, marketing, and technical support.

“We’re thrilled to extend our cloud leadership by joining the APN,” said Ribbon CTO Kevin Riley. “As cloud innovators with multiple customers deployed in production on AWS, we look forward to deepening the relationship and developing new solutions that leverage AWS.”

Ribbon outfits network operators with cloud-based real-time communications services and solutions. That includes the SBC Swe, a cloud-native session border controller software offering.

The company also has a synthetic dataset for model training for AWS’s Machine Learning for Telecommunication solution. “That provides a framework for an end-to-end ML process including ad-hoc data exploration, data processing and feature engineering, and model training and evaluation,” the company says. “It includes a synthetic telecom IP Data Record dataset to demonstrate how to use ML algorithms to test and train models for predictive analysis in telecommunication.”

Ribbon Communications was established through the merger of GENBAND and Sonus. A NASDAQ-traded company, Ribbon Communications last year had 2,300 employees in 27 countries, more than 1,000 service provider and enterprise customers globally, and more than 600 patents.

In addition to the solutions noted above, the company has an offering called Ribbon Protect. That combines the power of firewall and session border controller technology, and adds intelligence on top of that, to identify and guard against bad actors and security threats. SoftBank is among the users of Ribbon Protect.

Other Ribbon customers include the City of Los Angeles, the Department of Defense, Etisalat UAE, and Verizon.

Edited by Maurice Nagle