BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 25, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Ribbon Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: RBBN), a global software leader in secure and intelligent cloud communications, today announced that CommsChoice Group (ASX:CCG), a global leader in connecting businesses to the cloud, has upgraded to the latest release of Ribbon's session software solutions with the Session Border Controller Software edition (SBC SWe) on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to launch its new Teams SIPConnect offering. Teams SIPConnect allows CommsChoice to expand its capacity, extend its global reach, and deliver new revenue-generating cloud-based communications collaboration offerings to the APAC business market and beyond, including Direct Routing for Microsoft Teams.
"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."
"We have a 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."
Direct Routing for Microsoft Teams leverages SBCs to connect legacy systems and endpoints to calling in the Microsoft Teams collaboration environment. Ribbon was one of the first SBC vendors officially certified by Microsoft to provide Direct Routing functionality. The SBC SWe on AWS is part of Ribbon's mobility portfolio that will be on display at Mobile World Congress taking place in Barcelona, Spain February 25 -28. Visit Ribbon at Mobile World Congress in Hall 2 Stand 2L10.
Ribbon Chief Technology Officer Kevin Riley will deliver a presentation, Migrating and Securing Real-time Communications on AWS, on Tuesday, February 26 at 4 pm CET in CC1.3 in the South Hall, as part of the AWS Partner Solutions Speaker Series at Mobile World Congress.
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About CommsChoice
CommsChoice provides a fresh approach to innovative, vendor neutral managed network services and hosted voice for ANZ businesses to optimize costs and improve performance. CommsChoice's proven onboarding capability, experience and service delivery help link our business customers to their customers. All of this allows CommsChoice's customers to focus on their core business and grow. To learn more visit www.commschoice.com.
About Ribbon Communications
Ribbon Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: RBBN) delivers market-leading software solutions that secure and power many of the world's leading service provider and enterprise communications environments. Built on world-class technology and intellectual property, the company's cloud-native solutions deliver intelligent and secure real-time communications solutions for the cloud, network and enterprise edge. Ribbon's Kandy Cloud real-time communications software platform delivers advanced and embedded CPaaS and UCaaS capabilities enabling service providers to rapidly create and deploy high-value communications services. To learn more, visit ribboncommunications.com.
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