Optimized.
Automated. 
Open. 

Today’s Service Providers are seeing a bandwidth explosion driven by 5G, fiber rollout, and cloud networking. With this almost limitless access bandwidth customers are demanding increasingly complex services backed by stringent performance guarantees. Service providers are moving to a services-driven approach to enable them to profitably support the capacity expansion and the services this enables. With IP Wave, Ribbon is your trusted partner for success in this network evolution.

IP Routing

IP Routing

Ribbon’s automated, disaggregated IP Routing accelerates innovation velocity, giving operators the service agility they need.

Ribbon is Meeting the Demand

IP Optical

Optical Networking

Ribbon delivers 400G everywhere with programmable capacity to 1.2T, over a sliceable spectrum open optical line system.

Market-Disrupting 400G ZR+ Solution

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SDN Orchestration

Ribbon services-driven orchestration integrates service creation, workflows, and analytics, with closed-loop automation.

Muse 5G Native Domain Orchestration

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Services

Ribbon ensures your network runs at peak efficiency and provides the highest quality of service to meet your customers needs / 24/7/365.

Peace of mind for your Network

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Better Technology

IP Wave labs delivers advanced IP Optical and automation technology

Better Economics

Accelerating time to revenue, lowering cost of Access and Metro networks

Partner You Can Trust

Dependable, consistently delivering value everywhere, every time

The Economic Benefits of a Super-Converged Multi-Access Edge Network

Additional Resources

Apollo Open Optical Networking
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Apollo Open Optical Networking

Communications service providers are pursuing two approaches to building disaggregated optical networks based on integrating network elements or subsystems with open and standard interfaces.

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The Need for an Agile Services-Driven Network: Part 1 in the IP Wave Series
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The Need for an Agile Services-Driven Network

The major challenge facing communications service providers (CSPs) is on the services front, from competition, substitution, and the inability to maximize revenues. These concerns reduce the top line and restrict CSPs’ ability to... 

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SDN Domain Orchestration for Service Automation
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SDN Domain Orchestration for Service Automation

Muse SDN Domain Orchestrator (MDO) provides a modular suite of applications that streamline and automate the service and network operation...

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Apollo 100GbE & 400GbE Transport Solutions
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Apollo 100GbE & 400GbE Transport Solutions

Optical networks rely on two types of solutions to transport predominant 100GbE client traffic and increasingly important 400GbE client traffic.

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Freedom without Order is a Sure Path to Chaos

Maximizing spectrum efficiency is a challenge that operators have wrestled with for decades. And the challenge of optimizing spectrum planning and management is only...

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MuseTM Network Planner
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MuseTM Network Planner

Muse Network Planner is a next-generation planning tool for packet and optical networks, with forward-looking abilities for multilayer optimization...

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Telecommunication Carriers Need to Adapt to Survive
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Telecommunication Carriers Need to Adapt to Survive

Despite all the hype around 5G in the mobile phone world, an even larger sea-change is taking place that is putting traditional telecommunications carriers under tremendous stress, and possibly even threatening their long-term survival.

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Locked Down Shouldn’t Mean Left Out
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Locked Down Shouldn’t Mean Left Out

A new definition of a remote location might be less about the speed with which you can get to the nearest big city, but rather more about the speed of your internet connection.

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Our heritage precedes us, but it does not define us — rather it guides us to develop reliable network solutions and to continually innovate.

The Ribbon family has grown over the years bringing together the best talent in our industry. Our team’s innovative drive and deep engagement is vital to your success -- and ours.

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