As communications service providers (CSPs) look to accelerate their telco cloud transformations in step with their virtualisation efforts, they are under increasing time pressure
to enable the terabit era of massive volume, low latency communications to support a raft of digital use cases.

The complexities of these tasks and the challenges of setting realistic yet sufficiently future-proof transformation strategies go to the heart of success or failure for many CSPs.

With the stakes this high, CSPs are looking for support from companies that understand where they are coming from at the same time as having proven capabilities in new, cloud native networking disciplines.

Smaller CSPs are looking for partners they can trust to build, operate and transform their infrastructure while the larger players are looking to acquire the systems and technologies they need to make their strategies a success.

Steve McCaffery, the executive vice president of sales for EMEA and APAC at Ribbon, tells VanillaPlus managing editor George Malim that Ribbon uniquely encompasses these capabilities which have been strengthened by its recent addition of IP optical networking capabilities through its acquisition of ECI Telecom.

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