Ribbon Communications Inc

Ribbon Communications Inc. provides communications technology in the United States Europe the Middle East Africa the Asia Pacific and internationally. It operates through two segments Cloud and Edge and IP Optical Networks. The Cloud and Edge segment provides software and hardware products; and solutions and services for enabling voice over internet protocol communications voice over long-term evolution and voice over 5G communications and unified communications and collaboration. It also offers session border controller and network transformation products. This segment serves private public or hybrid cloud infrastructures as well as data centers enterprise premises and service provider networks. It also provides multiple solutions for VoIP VoLTE VoNR and UC&C in network on-premises or via the telco cloud. The IP Optical Networks segment provides hardware and software solutions for IP networking switching routing and optical transport to support and enable technologies such as 5G distributed cloud computing and corresponding applications. It also offers multiple solutions including 5G-native solutions for mobile-backhaul metro and edge aggregation core networking data center interconnect legacy NTR and transport solutions for wholesale carriers. This segment serves utilities government defense finance transportation and education and research industries as well as service providers and enterprises. It also provides advanced analytics solutions and next generation products that provides cloud-native and streaming analytics platform for networks and subscribers. The company was formerly known as Sonus Networks Inc. and changed its name to Ribbon Communications Inc. in November 2017. Ribbon Communications Inc. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Plano Texas.