Metro Aggregation


Service Providers need to support more service types than ever before, covering a wide range of residential, business, mobile, and mission-critical networks. As a result, there is a massive escalation in the amount of fiber, cellular, and non-cellular-wireless technologies in the access networks. 

Ribbon’s Automated IP routing delivers resilient, flexible, energy efficient solutions which meets these needs by integrating our best-in-class Muse multilayer automation platform with NPT's proven IP routing technologies. Unique multistack MPLS functionality ensures the best transport technology is used for each service type. Integration of legacy services is simple with proven processes and technologies. 

Why Ribbon?

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On-Demand Scalability

With Optimized 100G

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Elastic MPLS

Supporting CE2.0 services

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Always-on Services

With advanced software

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Enables Increased Margins

Via high-value services

NPT Metro IP Transport

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

A Race to the Bottom?

Service providers need to evolve, and fast, or risk becoming part of the connectivity ‘race to the bottom’ in a rapidly changing and increasingly commoditised market. However, the metro network could provide salvation! Thanks to a perfect storm of market trends, service providers have one of two options:

  • Do nothing and risk commoditisation
  • Gear up and start adding value
Metro Evolution Blog
A Race to the Bottom?