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Voice Solutions for Regional & Rural Service Providers

Being a voice service provider is challenging. Many regional and rural service providers are constrained by legacy TDM networks that are expensive to maintain, are well into their late lifecycles, are becoming a burden to administer and manage due to resource shortages and therefore pose risks to their business vitality. Continuing changes are experienced with vendors and products that seemingly constantly enter and exit the market. Ribbon offers a comprehensive transformation portfolio tailored to regional and rural providers.

Topology for Confident Observability and Digital Resilience

In recent years, we’ve significantly advanced how we think about and use topology within AIOps and Observability solutions from Broadcom, while solidly building on our innovative domain tools. We’re eager to share these innovations, advancements, and benefits for IT operations. In this blog post, we level-set on the topic of topology, clarify several important concepts, and discuss the decisive role topology plays in delivering powerful capabilities for AIOps and Observability from Broadcom.

Enterprise DORA Metrics: Scaling Measurement Across Value Streams and the Organization

DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) metrics are a ubiquitous measure of DevOps performance. These metrics are used in nearly every enterprise engaged in software development. DORA metrics help measure DevOps maturity, identify bottlenecks, and guide quality and process improvements. Despite their popularity, DORA metrics are generally considered difficult to measure and are primarily used by technical teams within the context of their respective domains.

VxRail monitoring to keep your network healthy

VxRail appliances, a powerful collaboration between Dell EMC and VMware, are designed to streamline IT operations and deliver exceptional performance for virtualized workloads. But like any complex system, ensuring peak performance and preventing disruptions requires constant vigilance. This is where VxRail monitoring becomes a lifesaver.

Comparing Encryption in Transit Options

Weigh up three popular ways to protect your data in transit—host level encryption (TLS/SSH), MACsec, and IPsec—to fortify your network security. Encryption in transit refers to protecting data while it moves from one place to another, in contrast to “encryption at rest” which is used to protect data where it is stored. In this blog we’ll look at a few common options for encryption in transit, and the pros and cons of each from a network perspective.

Network Performance Dashboard

In this dashboard tutorial video, we will walk you through building a Network Performance dashboard. This dashboard provides users with the visibility they need into the status of their network performance from their offices down to an individual users device. Obtaining this single pane of glass visibility is made easy with the combination of both CloudReady and Service Watch metrics into dashboards. When utilizing these dashboards, users can quickly identify which networks are performing poorly, allowing them to quickly resolve issues and ensure end users have an optimal experience.

Ribbon Voice Network Transformation - The Savings Pay for the Conversion

Ribbon's Fixed Network Transformation solutions consolidate and modernize infrastructure, eliminating inefficiencies. Ribbon provides solutions to transform both the core IP and optical networks and the IP-based communications services that run on top of that network, helping service providers expand and improve business services as well as enter new markets like unified 5G xhaul and broadband backhaul. At the same time, these transformations reduce the cost and complexity of delivering traditional residential communications services by dramatically reducing recurring power, HVAC, space, and staffing costs.

Advanced Device Management: Automate Custom Properties in N-central

Discover how to enhance your device management with N-central by creating custom properties to store critical information like public IP addresses and BitLocker Recovery Keys. In this video, Paul Kelly from the N-able Head Nerd Team guides Managed Service Providers (MSPs) through setting up scheduled tasks that automatically gather and store additional device data.