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Ribbon's Session Border Controller SWe on AWS Crucial to CommsChoice's Teams SIPConnect

As Mobile World Congress begins in Barcelona this week, Ribbon Communications Inc. announced that CommsChoice, upgraded to the latest release of the Ribbon Session Border Controller Software edition (SBC SWe) on Amazon Web Services (AWS), leveraging it to launch their latest offering - Teams SIPConnect. This will allow for CommsChoice to expand their scope, broaden their reach and deliver new collaborated cloud-based communications solutions to its growing global market, which will include Direct Routing for the shared workspace app Microsoft Teams.

"We have built a great partnership with CommsChoice and are proud to help them continue to deliver innovative communications solutions to their rapidly expanding customer base," said Kevin Riley, Chief Technology Officer for Ribbon. "CommChoice's recent upgrade to our SBC SWe on AWS allows them to enhance their offerings with advanced, flexible, cost-effective and secure calling capabilities that promote workplace collaboration and productivity inside the Microsoft Teams environment."

Features and benefits of Ribbons’ SBC SWe:

• SBC SWe uses the same code base used in SBC 5000 and 7000 series
• Deployable on private clouds, KVM and VMWare or a public cloud, i.e. AWS
• The ability to perform high-density transcoding for media transcoding using CPUs or leading GPUs to scale
• Certified for Microsoft Phone System Direct Routing, Skype for Business, Lync 2013 and Lync 2010
• Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) service support tied in with Ribbons’ call routing and policy management, including network-wide intelligence and control
• Powerful internetworking tools for multiple signaling protocols, IPv4 and IPv6 devices
• Legacy voice applications can continue to be used via SIP Message Manipulation (SMM)
• Call Admission Control (CAC) to deny excessive calls based on session establishment rate per trunk group
• Privacy and compliance are protected with enhanced security and encryption services
• The data source for integrated analytics of network traffic to drive orchestration of virtual SBC instances
• Network-wide licensing flexibility

Ribbons’ SBC SWe on AWS solution was chosen by CommsChoice for its proven reliability, security, and scalability as well as being one of the first vendor solutions which were certified by Microsoft to provide Direct Routing voice capabilities for Microsoft Teams. SIPConnect’s advanced voice services to any SIP-based system within Microsoft Teams will allow CommsChoice the ability to bring about further collaborations, efficiency and increased productivity.

"Launching Teams SIPConnect further enhances our Connect, Collaborate and Manage product portfolio while reinforcing our strategy to future-proof our technology offerings and underpin our brand promise to simplify our customers' journey to the cloud," said Tristan Plummer, Chief Technology Officer for CommsChoice. "Ribbon's technology is at the core of our business not only because it allows us to deliver our customers advanced communications capabilities by connecting to any SIP-based system, but also because of its proven reliability. Leveraging their SBC software to power our new offering on AWS was an easy choice."

Ribbon Communication Inc.’s, SBC SWe solution will be on display at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week as a major part of their mobility portfolio, visit Hall 2 Stand 2L10 to meet the team and to find out more.

Arti Loftus is an experienced Information Technology specialist with a demonstrated history of working in the research, writing, and editing industry with many published articles under her belt.

Edited by Maurice Nagle