Network Functions Virtualization

Innovation for performance, scale, and high availability for real-time communications in OpenStack cloud environments

Service providers are ramping their deployment of network functions virtualization (NFV) in their private cloud. NFV is intended to eliminate proprietary hardware dependencies, drive efficiency of scale, improve service agility and fundamentally improve the way service providers do business. By delivering a suite of OpenStack-based virtual network functions (VNFs), Ribbon helps ensure successful cloud deployments for real-time communications.

Ribbon's VNF Manager aids service providers through full support of orchestration, automation, elasticity, scalability, and geographic distribution of Ribbon VNFs. Ribbon is working with both ETSI and ONAP for VNF implementation in virtual and cloud environments. Ribbon’s portfolio of VNFs are designed as cloud native microservices that ensure automation, orchestration, elasticity and scalability in geo-distributed, multi-cloud, core and edge topologies.

Virtual Network Function Manager

Ribbon's VNF Manager (VNFM) is a generic VNF management framework managing lifecycle management of multiple Ribbon and third party VNFs. It enables seamless interworking with different network orchestrators and virtualization infrastructure managers via open APIs to ensure elastic scalability of VNF’s based on dynamic network load and/or provisioning state.

VNF Manager Datasheet

The Ribbon VNF Manager dramatically simplifies the deployment of VNFs, learn more by reading our datasheet

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Virtual Network Functions

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SBC SWe

SBC Software Edition provides virtual and cloud SBC deployments for real-time communications.

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PSX SWe

Support on-demand instantiation of PSX instances and service orchestration.

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VNF Manager

Provides Lifecycle Management (LCM) for Ribbon VNFs and can itself be instantiated as a VNF.

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Insight EMS

Centralized, efficient management of Ribbon's portfolio of SBCs, gateways (GSX), and policy servers (PSX) in a customer's network.

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C3 Call Controller

An intelligent multi-application call server and media gateway control platform for IMS & Non-IMS deployments.

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Diameter Signaling Controller Migrate signaling network functions into a cloud environment for SS7 and Diameter routing

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Application Server

Fully virtualized modular architecture for service providers looking to grow their existing app server platform.

NFV Ecosystems

Ribbon has established NFV interoperability partnerships with industry-leading NFV vendors for both the NFVI and MANO layers and done interoperability testing with Wind River Titanium Cloud, Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Intel Network Builders, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) OpenNFV, and Canonical V-PIL. Through these NFV ecosystem partnerships, Ribbon is able to deliver a NFV solution that is production ready.

Advantages of Ribbon NFV

  • Wide-ranging VNF portfolio supporting full elasticity and geo-distribution
  • Intelligent VNF management framework and open APIs streamline MANO interworking
  • Element management and analytics for VNFs to simplify operations and to provide KPIs on VNF usage and health
  • Able to deliver high-performance media interworking and transcoding solutions in an OpenStack cloud environment
  • Graceful migration path and hybrid deployment support avoids “rip and replace”
  • Flexible licensing plans accommodate elastic services and on-demand applications

Ribbon NFV Solutions

What Our Customers Say

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Related Pages

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C3 Call Controller
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Policy and Routing Software Edition (PSX SWe)
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SBC Software Edition (SBC SWe)
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VNF Manager