Telus Communications: Ribbon’s Virtual, Cloud-Native SBCs

As Canada’s second largest communications provider, Telus is focused on delivering world class services to its fixed and mobile customers, both consumers and businesses. It’s no surprise that they’ve won awards for the best mobile network quality and performance in Canada by JD Powers and operate Western Canada’s only 100% fiber optic network.

Communications Challenge

A key strategic objective for Telus is to virtualize and automate the orchestration of its network to achieve customer excellence with same day delivery of complex network services to its customers. Telus focused on its Session Border Control platforms as one its initial forays into Network Function Virtualization (NFV) seeking a solution to make its carrier peering more dynamic and to support Least Cost Routing LCR for international traffic

Communications Solution

Ribbon’s virtual, cloud-native SBCs successfully met all of Telus’ application requirements. Ribbon was deemed the best solution in terms of performance and scalability. Of course, Ribbon also has a long history of delivering robust solutions for Telus and similar Tier 1 providers across the globe.

The Ribbon Difference

Ribbon’s NFV portfolio for a virtual cloud-native SBC, Policy & Routing server, Element Management System, NFV and Virtual Network Function Manager leads the industry in terms of functionality, reliability, performance and scale. This portfolio is backed by 20+ years of R&D expertise and one of the industry’s most experienced professional services teams that effectively deliver solutions into the most demanding Tier 1 environments.