Moving at the Speed of Data
Digital Operations Demand “Secure, Real-time, Everywhere"
Modern operations require secure transport, pooling, and real-time delivery of data to decision points, with reliability as a non-negotiable. Ribbon’s portfolio is secure and field-proven across all communications and transport layers.
| Mission Needs | Solution Building Blocks | Products |
| Secure Communications | Session Border Controllers Application Servers Media Gateways Automation, Management and Control Systems | Core SBC, Edge SBC Application Server G5 Line Access Gateway Analytics RAMP Application Management LEAP Test Automation |
| Resilient, Automated IP‑Routing, Packet & Optical Transport | IP Routers / Packet Switches Optical Transport and Switching Nodes Automation and Multi‑Layer Management | NPT 1K, 2K Series IP Routers/Switches Apollo Optical Products Muse Multilayer Automation |
| Legacy Migration | Analog Line Gateways TDM to IP and Circuit Emulation Solutions | G5 Line Access Gateway NPT for CES/CEM and TDM to IP |
- Secure Communications: Allow the secure exchange of mission-critical information, enabling users to communicate reliably under attack, disruption or extreme operating conditions.
- Resilient, Automated IP-Routing, Packet & Optical Transport: Networks for secure capacity and low latency, powered by our multilayer design/analysis/planning and low-code automation platform
- Legacy Modernization: Analog and TDM-to-IP migration options
Evidence You Can Rely On
Government and defense deployments demand proven, certified solutions. Ribbon backs key claims with DoD interoperability approvals, strong assurance signals, and large-scale deployments.
Leaders Who Trust Us
Nations We Support
Ribbon supports defense missions with certified, interoperable communications and transport solutions. Ribbon products have achieved DISA JITC certification and are listed on the DISA/DoDIN Approved Products List (APL), including SBC and gateway platforms as well as PSX, RAMP, and Analytics. Ribbon was selected as the technology provider for DISA’s Soft Switch Backbone (SSBB) modernization program, and Ribbon’s defense page states its SBCs are FIPS compliant, JITC certified, and certified for Microsoft Teams, with Ribbon’s SBCs included in the Microsoft Teams DoDIN APL System Under Test.
Ribbon is CMMC Certified with maximum number of points.
Secure Communications Solutions - FIPS Compliant and JITC Certified
Both civilian and military organizations deploy our Session Border Controllers (SBCs), Application Servers, and high-density Media Gateways as part of an end-to-end solution or as part of a Microsoft Teams migration.
Ribbon solutions use industry-standard SIP to simplify integration and migration, while protecting long-term investments. Ribbon Session Border Controllers are FIPS compliant, JITC certified, certified for Microsoft Teams and the only SBCs on the DODIN Approved Products list as part of the Microsoft Teams SUT. Ribbon’s Application Server is JITC certified for both LSC and ESC deployments and also the core of the largest VoIP deployment in the US Department of Defense.
Mission needs: Secure, policy-controlled real-time communications across coalition/legacy environments, with survivability at the edge.
- Session Border Controller (SBCs): secure SIP interconnect, policy enforcement, interoperability.
- Application Server: scalable call control and survivable architectures.
- High-density media gateways: preserve legacy interfaces while modernizing to IP/SIP.
- Automation, Management and Control Systems to centrally configure, monitor, and remediate issues across the communications portfolio, and to deliver end‑to‑end observability and actionable insights (threat/fraud detection.
Ribbon Analytics
Secure and monitor networks with service assurance and deep network insights.
LEAP
Streamline network management, forecast network growth, and troubleshoot network issues while reducing operational costs.
RAMP
Upgrade with confidence and ensure network compatibility, while mitigating risk through test automation.
Resilient, Automated IP-Routing, Packet & Optical Transport Solutions
Decision-making on the modern battlefield requires real-time information to be made available when and where it is required. IP, Packet, and Optical networking provides both the agility to link the data generated from various sources to multiple destinations as well as the capacity required to transport bulk data over long distances with ultra-low latency.
Ribbon provides tailor-made, secure, hardened, field-proven defense solutions. These solutions integrate intelligent optical networking with agile IP/Packet connectivity to provide a converged, secure communication network.
Mission needs: High-capacity, low-latency, secure transport for sensor-to-decision-to-effect chains across distributed environments. A single automated communications network supporting video surveillance systems, command and control networks, sensors, radar, and smart IoT devices.
Building blocks:
- Muse Multilayer Automation Platform: Control/analysis/design/planning plus low-code automation and customization
- Neptune/NPT IP Routing & Packet platform: Multi-service aggregation and packet transport
- Apollo Optical Platform: Scalable optical layer for growing secure bandwidth demands
Key Products Feature Overview
Secure Communications Products
Session Border Controllers
What it is: A Session Border Controller (SBC) is a security and interoperability control point for SIP-based real-time communications, used to connect domains, enforce policy, and protect voice/UC services.
Ribbon SBC Capabilities:
- FIPS compliant and JITC certified
- Microsoft Teams Certified
- Hardware, Software or Cloud
- Carrier grade reliability with high availability deployment options
- Up to 150,000 sessions per element
- Powerful media transcoding
Application Server
What it is: A virtualized communications platform delivering VoIP and unified communications services across IP networks, with deployment flexibility from on‑prem data centers to private or public cloud.
Ribbon Application Server Capabilities:
- Incredible scale – up to 2 million users per instance
- JITC certified and DoW accepted
- AS-SIP / MLPP support
- Carrier grade reliability – five 9s uptime, including upgrades
- SIP-based with no vendor lock-in
- Fully virtualized architecture
Media Gateways
What it is: Ribbon Media Gateways provide secure, high-density, carrier-grade interworking between legacy TDM voice and IP networks, enabling phased voice modernization.
Ribbon Media Gateway Capabilities:
- High-density, carrier-grade architecture
- Redundancy and high availability
- Broad interface and network support
- Security and access control
- Unified management and operations
Management and Control of Voice Networks
What it is: Ribbon’s Voice Management solutions secure and monitor your networks with service assurance and in-depth insights.
Ribbon Voice Networks Management includes:
- RAMP to centrally configure, monitor, and remediate issues
- LEAP for GenAI-guided automation and shortened time-to-restore
- Analytics delivering end-to-end observability and actionable insights
- KPI/QoE monitoring, root-cause analysis, and capacity forecasting.
Resilient, Automated IP Routing, Packet & Optical Transport Products
Muse – Multilayer Automation Platform
What it is: A multilayer automation platform for control, analysis, design, and planning, with low-code automation and customization to improve operational efficiency. The Muse™ software suite allows seamless operation across Apollo and Neptune.
Ribbon Muse Capabilities:
- Real-time orchestration and automation across all layers
- Intent-based provisioning and rapid service activation
- Network slicing for mission-specific isolation and QoS
- Advanced analytics
- Cybersecurity and compliance
- Cloud-native and on-prem deployment
- Geo-redundancy to meet sovereignty and security requirements
- Carrier-grade, cloud-native microservices architecture
- Multi-vendor integration
NPT – Multi-service IP Routing & Packet Platform
What it is: A multi-service IP/Packet platform supporting both modern devices and legacy systems. Neptune’s Multistack MPLS supports mission-critical and non-mission-critical traffic on the same network.
Ribbon NPT Capabilities:
- Redundancy and high availability architecture
- Deterministic transport using MPLS-TP
- Guaranteed low latency and jitter for radar and C2 connectivity
- Sub-50ms protection switching
- Circuit emulation for legacy system integration
- Integrated IP Wave rNOS security framework
Apollo – Programmable Optical Platform
What it is: An optical networking foundation designed to satisfy growing secure bandwidth demands.
Ribbon Apollo Capabilities:
- High-capacity programmable line rates (100G–1.2T)
- Modular growth and energy efficiency
- Mission-critical security
- Layer 1 encryption, quantum-ready, FIPS 140-2 compliant
- Resilience and survivability
- Multi-service support: Ethernet, OTN, TDM, SA
G5 Analog Line Gateway
What it is: A high-density analog-to-SIP gateway designed to enable VoIP migration without replacing entire legacy estates.
Ribbon G5 Capabilities:
- High-density ports and long loop length
- Carrier-grade (99.999%) availability
- Analog to SIP conversion
- VoIP migration ready
- Metallic line testing
- Modular expandability and upgradability
- Automatic network clock synchronization
- Continuous background system audits
- Broad standards and protocol support
Federal Edge 8000 Family
What it is: A secure and efficient solution to migrate legacy communications to IP-based or cloud-based platforms, including Microsoft® Teams for Government.
Ribbon Edge 8000 Capabilities:
- High availability SBC enabling secure DISA network access
- Modular analog gateways for PBXs and analog devices
- T1/E1 gateway modules for SIP trunk migration
- IPv6-compliant enterprise edge routing (up to 10 Gbps)
- V.150 support for legacy STE and vIPer terminals
- Voice optimization over satellite links
- PSTN fallback for WAN or cloud outages
- SRTP and TLS encryption
- Proven multi-vendor interoperability
NPT for Circuit Emulation & SDH/SONET Transition
What it is: Risk-managed migration for legacy circuit services while modernizing the transport underlay.
Ribbon NPT Capabilities:
- Comprehensive circuit emulation services (CES)
- Smart SFP pluggables and service cards
- Support for SAToP, CESoPSN, and CEP
- TDM aggregation
- Voice trunk migration
- Legacy service migration
- Field-proven network migration processes
Frequently Asked Defense Solutions Questions
What does “mission-critical defense network” mean in practice?
A mission-critical defense network is engineered for assured availability, secure interoperability, and resilient communications and transport across distributed environments. It supports real-time exchange of voice and data needed for command, coordination, and operations continuity.
How do primes reduce integration risk across coalition and multi-vendor environments?
Use standards-based SIP interconnect and policy control to integrate disparate systems while protecting long-term investments and enabling staged modernization rather than “rip and replace.”
Where do Session Border Controllers fit in a defense communications stack?
SBCs sit at trust boundaries and interconnect points to secure and control SIP-based real-time communications, supporting interoperability, policy enforcement, and protection of voice/UC services during migrations and steady-state operations.
How can you modernize analog/legacy endpoints without replacing everything?
High-density analog-to-SIP gateways and phased migration patterns can reduce barriers to VoIP modernization by converting legacy endpoints and preserving existing cabling/estates while moving to standards-based SIP.
Why pair IP/Packet with Optical layers?
IP/Packet provides agility for routing and service differentiation, while the Optical layer provides scalable secure capacity; together they support low-latency and high-bandwidth transport across long distances.
What is multilayer automation and why does it matter?
Multilayer automation reduces operational complexity across IP and optical layers by improving planning, analysis, and workflow automation, enabling faster and more reliable change execution at scale.
