Name: In the Mind of a CXO | From Cornfields to Cloud Deals: The Rural DCI Play
Start: 2025-09-10T18:34:00Z
End: 2025-09-10T18:34:46.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 5

Ribbon offers IP and Optical Networking equipment and secure cloud communications solutions.  Find out more at rbbn.com

Bharti Airtel, Mr Ajay Jain - EVP of Digitization speaks about the network and Ribbon Analytics. 

Learn more about our analytics solutions - https://ribboncommunications.com/products/service-provider-products/analytics

Bharti Airtel Deploys Analytics in their Mobile Network

Ribbon Acumen is an AIOps & Automation platform for voice and data networks. It's comprised of a series of ready-made applications and a Builder capability that enables organizations to combine those applications with AI to create custom workflows. Those workflows can analyze and react to data from devices and applications, enabling Acumen to automate network deployment and operations, as well as provide tools to rapidly resolve issues.

Acumen - AIOps Automation Platform

Discover how network intelligence can simplify operations, reduce costs, and future-proof your infrastructure. 

Join us for a 30-minute pre-event webinar where Ribbon experts will share how service providers can unlock new efficiencies and revenue opportunities through smarter networking. 

What You’ll Learn:
- Intelligent IP Networks with Fault and Configuration Automation
- Programmable optical networking for flexibility
-  Multilayer automation & AIOps for efficiency
-  Steps to move toward autonomous networks

Date: Tuesday, November 4
Time: 9:00 – 9:30 AM CET

 Visit us at Africa Tech Festival 2025, Booth D31

Boosting Profitability with Ribbon Intelligent Solutions

We’re excited to launch Release 22—our most advanced update yet. It delivers smarter controls, deeper customization, and long-term reliability.

Key improvements include enhanced handling of TTY messages with Wireshark support, flexible call history recording, new Stir/Shaken override options for better traceability, and real-time call limit tracking with an upgraded interface.

Plus, starting March 25, 2026, SIP code 603+ will notify callers when calls are blocked due to analytics, in line with FCC regulations.

C15 Roadmap & Release 22

Cómo una sola decisión puede ahorrarte años de gastos.

Metaswitch está evolucionando rápidamente—y quedarse atrás está saliendo cada vez más caro. Con Alianza al mando, el soporte puede ser costoso y limitado.

Hablaremos de cómo migrar desde Metaswitch no solo es más inteligente, sino también más económico. Una sola actualización te da tres años de mantenimiento, mejor rendimiento y una red preparada para el futuro.

¿Aún con Metaswitch? La migración que transforma costos en ganancias

We’re getting ready to take the stage at Network X in Paris, where Ribbon has been nominated for Most Innovative Optical Transport Use Case & Most Innovative IP Transport Solution. 

But before that, we’re hosting a special 30-minute preview to show you what’s coming.

Join Jonathan Homa and David Stokes from our Solutions Marketing team as they walk through how Ribbon is advancing toward autonomous networks with:

- AIOps made easy
- Multilayer IP Optical Automation
- Data Center Interconnect for Cloud & Enterprise
- Profiting from MOFNs
- Smarter high-capacity aggregation

Whether you’ve worked with Ribbon for years or you’re just getting to know us, this is your chance to see what’s next—before anyone else.

A Path to Autonomous Networks

Many service providers still rely on decades old TDM and SONET networks that are power hungry and resource intensive.

Adding to the challenge, support issues are exacerbated by staff reductions and an aging workforce. Costs for power, cooling (HVAC), real estate, and staff are all increasing, even while subscriber numbers are falling.

Navigating the Changing Tides of Voice Services

• Residential and business service strategies
• DCI for rural data centers
• Differentiation through automation and voice services

How to Monetize Your Network

Managing your network effectively requires a robust, multi-layer platform designed for automation, allowing for streamlined processes and enhanced efficiency. By empowering your citizen developers to take the reins in automating network tasks, organizations can drive innovation and responsiveness. Ribbon’s Muse Multi-layer Automation Platform play a critical role in this ecosystem by enabling users to automate time-consuming tasks such as creating Service Level Agreement (SLA) reports, executing software upgrades seamlessly, and conducting bulk configurations of network ports.  Additionally, by alleviating routine operational tasks from your staff, they can redirect their efforts toward higher-value revenue generating activities.
• How to free-up your ops staff for more revenue generating activities using Ribbon’s Muse multi-layer automation platform
• Empowering your citizen developers to develop your own workflows
• Automating ops functions such as SLA reports, upgrades, and bulk configurations

How to Manage & Automate Your IP Optical Network

In addressing the burgeoning demand for broadband connectivity in rural America, a robust and innovative IP Optical Network Architecture is essential. The architecture must incorporate a best-in-class multi-layer design optimized for middle-mile functionality, integrating both voice and security dimensions. A pivotal requirement is to decouple the last mile from the middle mile, ensuring that the last-mile solutions can remain agnostic to various technologies while still benefiting from a unified middle-mile infrastructure. Furthermore, the network must be equipped with 400G-ready service-aware routing capabilities at edge and aggregation layers, facilitating efficient data flow management at local nodes.

IP Optical Middle Mile Network Architectures for Rural America

As consumers continue to shift away from traditional cable broadcasting towards streaming video services such as Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, and Paramount+, this will continue to drive the demand for robust middle mile solutions. This growth in data traffic demands not only enhance rural provider’s Internet infrastructure but also fortify their needs for data center interconnectivity (DCI) to metropolitan hubs. In this context, rural markets require connectivity solutions that can support 100G and even 400G connections to efficiently handle rising bandwidth needs tied to cloud applications and content delivery networks.   The first in our webinar series will cover: 
- Expand on drivers for middle-mile connectivity for video content delivery as well as opportunities for DCI connectivity for rural datacenters
- Need for secondary DCI opportunities for rural carriers outside metro hubs
- Why 100G Middle Mile isn’t enough   need to plan for 400G

What’s Driving Traffic in Rural America – Broadband, Wireless & DCI for AI

Join us for an inside look at how our Fortune 500 enterprise customer revolutionized its voice security workloads with cloud native and automation. Discover why more enterprises are embracing cloud native architectures to economically secure their contact centers and unified communications. 

Customers are telling us:   
·       We don’t want to manage server farms and data centers.
·       We want our SBCs in the same public or private clouds as our Unified Communications (UC) and Contact Centers (CC).
·       We’re tired of rising virtualization license costs.
·       We want to deploy voice services with the same automation pipelines we use for other applications, leveraging CI/CD, SecOps and DevOps practices.
 
Ribbon’s cloud native Session Border Controller (SBC) addresses these needs and goals by  eliminating hardware maintenance, freeing organizations to focus on strategic goals. It enables automated deployments and SecOps integration with advanced cloud-native features. It empowers IT teams to manage communications apps on unified infrastructure.

Ribbon cloud native SBC is already tested with nearly every UC and contact center vendor. Still using Oracle, AudioCodes, Cisco, Avaya or Metaswitch SBCs? Join us to see the difference between what you have and what you need!

Cloud-First Communications Deserve Cloud Native SBC

For some organizations, a unified communications outage is an inconvenience, and for others, it could be a matter of life and death. We know that cloud-based phone systems are pretty reliable, but they are not perfect, and neither is your Internet Service Provider. So, when something goes wrong, which of the big three unified communications solutions offers the best and/or most cost-effective solution for local survivability? 

Let's compare and see! Join us June 4, 2025 
8 AM PDT | 11 AM EDT | 4 PM BST | 5 PM CEST 

Join cloud UC gurus Tom Arbuthnot & Kevin Kieller for a local survivability bake-off. They’ve engaged with Microsoft, Cisco Webex & Zoom to be sure they have the latest info on each solution. They’ll offer an unbiased view, including:
• How each solution works
• Key capabilities
• Potential shortcomings
• Cost & complexity

Please bring your questions and share your experiences.  

Hosted by Ribbon Communications, a leading provider of solutions to enable Teams Phone with SBA, Zoom Phone with ZPLS, and Webex Local Gateway.

Surviving a Cloud Phone Outage – Comparing Teams, Webex & Zoom Phone’s Local Survivability Solutions

The primary mission of optical networks is transporting 100GbE traffic, and soon, 400GbE traffic. Some popular solutions have a less-publicized aspect that can lead to abandoned spectrum. The webinar shows how to avoid that. It explains how to build a future-proof optical network on an organized spectral plan that accomplishes two goals simultaneously: optimizing for performance for dense traffic and long distances and optimizing for power and cost everywhere else.

Key Topics for Discussion:
Importance of being 400GbE ready.
How new 400G ZR+ changes the economic equation.
Optimizing transport for performance versus optimizing for power and cost.
Tradeoffs between line rates and channel widths (what they don’t tell you).
How to have your cake (best transport solution today) and eat it too (on a future-proof network).

Building a Future-proof Optical Highway with 400G ZR+

Automation is one of the main considerations when defining a cloud strategy. It is essential that enterprises implement automation within their cloud infrastructure so that they can not only enhance efficiency and generate opex savings, but also to scale operations and improve service delivery to their customers. Despite its importance, automation still has its challenges. Organizations must know how to automate tasks across often complex cloud architectures, in addition to meeting security expectations and navigating implementation costs. During this session, speakers will delve into automation essentials and discuss key tools, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in automating cloud platforms.

Understanding Automation Essentials Challenges, Solutions and Beyond

Learn how Stir Shaken works with Attestation

STIR SHAKEN – What is Attestation?

With the advent of AI, more and more data centers are being built at the edge. These data centers need to be interconnected with each other — and back to the core — with high-speed connectivity.  Data center operators have multiple deployment options including managed wave, private build and the re-emerging Managed Optical Fiber Networks (MOFN) option.  This webinar will provide an overview of these 3 options and provide guidance to service providers and integrators on the MOFN option which can be a powerful tool in pursuing this market.

What you will learn:
- Different deployment models for DCI including managed wave, private build and MOFN
- Pros and cons of each model and why MOFN is re-emerging as a “best of both worlds” option
- Situations where MOFN can be the best fit
- Considerations for service providers and integrators to position a MOFN DCI option

Managed Optical Fiber Networks (MOFN): A Solution for Your DCI Customers

Join Mitch Simcoe, Marketing Product Manager at Ribbon, and Ron Beck, Business Development Manager at Burns & McDonnell, for a fast-paced look at how DCI is emerging as a major revenue opportunity for rural network operators.

In the Mind of a CXO | From Cornfields to Cloud Deals: The Rural DCI Play

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In the Mind of a CXO | From Cornfields to Cloud Deals: The Rural DCI Play

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