Name: The Intelligent Middle Mile
Start: 2024-07-01T20:16:00Z
End: 2024-07-01T20:16:01.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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Ribbon offers IP and Optical Networking equipment and secure cloud communications solutions.  Find out more at rbbn.com

Broadband Aggregation and the Intelligent Middle Mile

Broadband Aggregation

Muse orchestrates your IP and Optical network and can manager 3rd party NEs. 
Get more info - https://ribboncommunications.com/muse

Domain Orchestration - Detailed Demo

Ribbon Learning Enabled Automation Program (LEAP) offers a faster, more efficient, and easier solution that seamlessly automates call flow testing and deploys and upgrades software.
Learn more - https://rbbn.com/leap

LEAP Automated Call Flow Testing

Would you operate a network with zero visibility?
Don’t risk it, visualize your network and get ahead of the storm with Ribbon Analytics.
See more - https://rbbn.com/products/service-provider-products/analytics

Visualize Your Network

Muse Domain Orchestration demo of setting up workflows for IP and Optical Networking

Automation Workflow Demo for IP and Optical Networking

Deploying voice communications over the Internet or using third-party services to host voice subscribers has the potential to create quality, security, and business continuity concerns. Service providers need to take proactive measures to prevent potential issues. Ribbon’s Intelligent Edge™ solutions are deployed at the edge of a customer’s network to give communication service providers a better way to monitor, manage, and secure voice traffic as it enters and exits a provider’s network and/or an end customer’s site.

Join Ribbon experts on June 26th as they discuss all of the below and more:

  - Simple, Cost-effective, and Secure solutions for use with Hosted Cloud Communication Services
  - The Importance of Local Survivability
  - Cutting Edge Cloud-Based Network Management for Traffic Analysis, Routing, and Remediation.
  - Scenarios for Private Network or SD-WAN
  - Options for FXO and FXS ports, LTE WAN backup, and Power over Ethernet.

Securing Your Cloud Voice Communications

With the surge in public funding for rural communities, smart investment in Middle Mile transport can not only enhance your investments in outside plant and access networks but can also provide new sources of revenue, and add OpEx improvements to your CapEx spend.  During this webinar on June 12th, experts from Ribbon will discuss current trends in broadband network design, focusing on the technical and financial benefits of the Intelligent Middle Mile.

Attendees will learn the essential design elements of a typical rural broadband network.  Each element will be discussed in terms of its purpose and economic value to the overall operation.  Specifically, we will focus on how the middle-mile, aka the transport backbone, is uniquely positioned to support scalability and growth.  Additionally,  we’ll cover how the Intelligent Middle Mile can open up new revenue opportunities, whether your customer base is growing or stable.

Jack Breeding, Director – IPO, Rural and Tribal Nations for Ribbon has been operating, designing, and improving communications networks for Telecoms and Utelcos for over 20 years.  His knowledge and expertise allows him to help service providers deploy right-sized solutions with a clear path to Capex and Opex sustainability. Join us to learn more!

Broadband Design: The Intelligent Middle Mile

Ever been in a rental car listening to an important call while trying to find the airport exit? You’re trying to listen, respond, and drive – without cursing or crashing… What’s the chance you’ll remember the key takeaways or action items from that call? 

Microsoft Copilot can fix that and make any business call more productive. Join Ribbon and Teams guru Kevin Kieller on June 11th at 10 AM EDT/ 15:00 BST to see how Copilot integrates with Teams Phone to solve real business problems. 

Kevin is going to show you the Copilot experience and explore:

• Copilot transcription & call summaries
• The desktop experience vs mobile and desk phone
• Copilot services available during and after a call
• All that legal stuff around recording your calls
• Microsoft Copilot licensing

Plus, Kevin and Ribbon will discuss how you get started with Teams Phone if your organization hasn’t made the jump.  

We’ll also leave time for your questions.

Using Microsoft Copilot to Transform Your PSTN Phone Calls

Network operators need to make best use of their IP and Optical network resources. During this webinar presented by Lightwave, experts from Ribbon, and the Dell'Oro Group explain how a new generation of high-power coherent transceiver technologies is allowing us to assemble the traditional network building blocks in novel ways creating new architectures. Whatever the choice, the webinar shows how to construct a unified IP Optical network at the lowest TCO. 

Topics we will cover include:
  -  The toolbox of coherent pluggables
  -  Understanding the cost and flexibility tradeoffs of deploying in routers or transponders
  -  The role of the Open Line System (OLS)
  -  Use cases of different architectures
  -  A unified operations framework for end-to-end service provisioning with full visibility of the optical path for all architectures

Coherent Routing and Optical Transport: Getting Under the Covers

The pace of technological innovation, user demand, and the sophistication of new applications are all rapidly increasing. Will your network be able to keep up? If you build today, will the network support what your customers will require in 5 years? What about 10 years?

Join us to discuss the latest developments in utilities-based middle-mile architecture and how you can confidently meet tomorrow's requirements. Learn how to create a customized and secure OT network while delivering high-revenue services to premium broadband customers.

Key Takeaways:
    -  Hear how new developments in transport and routing technology will support new and probable future applications
    -  Learn how the middle mile is the logical network allocation for Service Awareness and Advanced Traffic Engineering
    -  Receive an update on recent innovations and economic trends that apply across the industry

Broadband Architecture for the Future

Middle-mile networks span from tens to several thousand kilometers and provide connectivity between last-mile access networks such as FTTH and mobile base stations and the core services and applications. The middle mile is essential for all operators looking to support new services. This can be both Service Providers delivering new revenue-generating services, or Network Operators delivering mission and business-critical services.

This webinar examines the service requirements that drive the new middle mile and the technologies that are required to build a new, service-aware middle mile able to meet these requirements.

Key learnings:
     · The relationship between  service performance and middle-mile architecture
     ·  How a vast array of different service performance needs can be delivered on a single network using a suite of service-aware  IP Optical technologies.
     ·  A practical approach to building a service-aware middle mile

Building An Intelligent Middle Mile

In the second and final part of the workshop, we will dive deeper into the technical solutions for Teams deployments and address any specific issues raised by participants during Part 1 of the workshop. 
 
Some topics to discuss include:
· Connecting multiple sites with centralized routing
· Integrating generations of hardware
· Integrating contact center
· PSTN connectivity & cut-over strategies
· 911/E911

The Nuts and Bolts of Teams Phone Migration - Part 2

In Part 1 we’ll use a real case study to cover common challenges. During this session you are invited to submit specific issues your organization is facing. This is important because we will discuss your submissions in Part 2 of the series. 
 
In this session we’ll discuss project management topics such as:
· Building consensus related to project success metrics
· Deciding when & if you need to integrate existing solutions
· Supporting analog devices
· Mixing and matching PSTN connectivity options
· Navigating the "in-between" state
· Creating an approach to evaluate multiple viable options

Ensuring Success of a Teams Phone Migration - Part 1

While industry experts struggle to find consensus on the path to Telco Cloud, almost everyone agrees that automation will play an outsized role in helping network operators overcome the challenges they face in adopting and successfully deploying Telco Cloud.

For many network operators, the very inefficient pace of their existing software upgrades is a key challenge they must address to migrate their network to a modern Telco Cloud.

Watch our webinar to get the latest view on Telco Cloud adoption and discover how and why test automation is the key to accelerating software upgrades, including benefits such as:

   - Reducing labor and time required for software upgrades
   - Increasing the extent and accuracy of test coverage
   - Accelerating upgrade frequency
   - Enabling access to new services & revenue opportunities
   - Reducing threat exposure by patching & upgrading sooner
   - De-risking unforeseen post-upgrade issues
   - Saving operational costs through higher efficiency

Test Automation: A Key to Telco Cloud Adoption

Muse is a modular suite of applications that lets you get the most out of your network, to create and turn up new services rapidly, and to ensure the network is optimized, available, and running at peak efficiency. Powered by a carrier-grade PaaS, Muse delivers real-time control over a programmable network infrastructure and automates the service and network operations life cycles. Providing users with access to just the applications they need.

Network Automation and Muse Domain Orchestration

Today advances in optical networking are all about leveraging DSP technology to increase the baud rate. This reduces costs by delivering more capacity using fewer wavelengths and lower power consumption. The webinar shows how 5nm-140Gbaud transceiver technology, now in customer trials, delivers 1.2T wavelengths for short-haul, 800G across the entire metro-regional space, and unlimited reach 400G.
 
What you will learn:
   - How optical networking is being driven by advances in DSP technology
   - The performance and cost advantages that current generation 5nm-140Gbaud transceivers provides over previous generation 7nm-95Gbaud technology
   - How you can arrange a demo or trial of Ribbon’s 5nm-140Gbaud solution

Revolutionizing Optical Networking with 5nm-140Gbaud

TDM-based communications networks were supposed to be dead and buried by now… but they’re not. Doing nothing is becoming increasingly expensive as TDM network usage and revenue shrink but the fixed cost to run these massive networks is still in place. In this webinar, Ribbon will address how to rationally shed the costs of running these legacy networks while maintaining the high-margin revenue streams they still deliver. Ribbon will share its proven migration model that consistently delivers cost savings, simplifies management, and assures long-term platform sustainability.

  -  Virtualized call controllers
  -  TDM at the edge and Circuit Emulation
  -  Micro mobile networks to replace legacy deployments in remote locations

TDM Network Transformation to the Telco Cloud

Ribbon’s IP Optical network solutions transports services intelligently according to their performance needs. The solutions are:
Service Aware – Transports services according to their performance needs.
Secure – Protects the network from deliberate or unintended misuse.
Low Code Automatable – Puts automation into the hands of network operators.
Forecast Tolerant – Adapts network resources to changing service demands.
Lowest TCO – Makes the most cost-effective use of IP Optical resources.

Learn more at  https://rbbn.com/middle-mile

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