SIP Trunking for Enterprise

Enterprises are embracing the cloud for their business applications. In addition, more employees are working outside of traditional offices, meaning they are connecting directly to the cloud environment, without connecting to a corporate network. Given this new environment, it often doesn’t make sense to have SIP trunks terminate in an organization’s offices or premises data center and as such it doesn’t make sense to deploy a premises-based security elements.

Ribbon's session border controllers (SBCs) can be deployed natively in AWS and Azure or acquired as a cloud service to provide cloud-based security for cloud-based services. This design reduces latency, offers nearly infinite scale and eliminates the need to maintain hardware. Watch how to install a Ribbon SBC in Azure in just 5 steps

Microsoft Phone System – Microsoft Teams

Ribbon has the largest portfolio of SBCs certified for Microsoft Direct Routing, giving organizations better choices to connect Microsoft Teams to a service provider. Choose cloud-based solutions, virtualized software or hardware appliances for 1 to or 100,000 users. Whether an organization is migrating one site or an entire campus to Teams, Ribbon can provide a secure Direct Routing solution that accelerates moving to the cloud as well as solutions to gradually migrate off of local PBXs. Learn more at our Microsoft Solutions page

Zoom Phone

Ribbon SBCs are certified with Zoom Phone to make it easy and secure to connect Zoom with your choice of communications service providers (AKA Bring Your Own Carrier or BYOC). Ribbon SBCs simplify interoperability, leveraging our real-world experience deploying tens of thousands of devices/instances across the globe. Choose from cloud-based deployment in AWS or Azure, virtualized software, or traditional hardware-based appliances. Ribbon’s SBCs secure these connections and assure interoperability so organizations can select from hundreds of service providers across the globe. Learn more at our Zoom Phone page

Ribbon's SBCs provide end to end encryption of signaling and media, thwart denial of service and distributed denial of service attacks (DoS & DDoS) as well as solve a host of potential interoperability issues. Much like traditional firewalls, they can also be used to segregate the communications network to secure access between different parts of an organization. As an example, a hospital might use an SBC to segregate patient room phones from medical staff communications or a military contractor might segregate their defense program team from other employees.

Beyond the most pressing aspects of communications security, session border controllers are a key part of a wider network security framework. SBCs act as a virtual security guard to prevent bad actors from using the communications network as a point of access into the wider data network. CISOs, CIOs and IT staff understand that every entry and exit point in their network will eventually come under attack. They also know that hackers are smart enough to look for less obvious avenues. Ribbon SBCs can hide the underlying network addresses from bad actors attempting to infiltrate and steal mission-critical data. SBCs inspect every packet coming in or out of the network, looking for anomalies and taking action to prevent attacks.