As enterprises expand, through organic growth or acquisition, they need to support the IT needs of more distributed locations. These often include teams in shared office spaces versus enterprise-owned or leased facilities. To serve remote locations and users, enterprises are rapidly moving toward cloud-based applications including Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS).

When it comes to ensuring network security and availability, military and defense organizations take technology seriously, and in the case of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), all telecommunications related equipment and software must pass the highest muster and earn Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) certification.

On this day, one year ago, the merger of Sonus and GENBAND was completed, and Ribbon Communications was born. The transaction was a “merger of equals” and has turned out to be a very positive and beneficial union, not only for world-class global customer base but also for our employees, our ecosystem partners and the industry as a whole.

From legacy to leading edge, Communications Service Providers (CSPs) may sometimes feel there is no clear path or timeline associated with network transformation beyond what they have already done to move into virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (NFV).

Disruption is happening all around us in the incredibly fast-moving world of real time communications (RTC).

Over a decade ago, enterprise IT teams made a strong push to the cloud and succeeded. They lowered costs, enabled innovation, unlocked the value of data analytics and delivered a more secure computing environment than when they were responsible for running all computing on-premise.

In Part 1 of my blog, I provided an overview of why Communications Platforms as a Service (CPaaS) are growing in importance and highlighted the benefits of Ribbon's Kandy CPaaS platform. Now we will take a closer look at why Kandy is the preferred CPaaS for Communications Service Providers (CSPs).

CPaaS and Embedded Communications

CPaaS is one of those industry acronyms that has been tossed around for a few years now, but what is exactly is a CPaaS? Communications Platform as a Service (or CPaaS) enables the integration of voice, video, messaging, chat, presence and collaboration into any app, service, web site or business process via Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and Software Development Kits (SDKs).

To say that the past year has been transformational in our company’s history might be an understatement.

Business today gets done online, and the digital transformation of large enterprises is driving nearly every single transaction to the cloud, the web, mobile apps, and more.

The virtualization of these digital enterprises is creating substantial gains in employee productivity, with an unprecedented number of them “dialing in” from remote locations, and a parallel growth in the number of on-site workers in offices, hospitals and medical clinics, in classrooms, public venues and more staying connected using business workflow apps as companions.

If there’s one thing security professionals should understand and acknowledge – whether they’re part of an organization’s multi-person IT security team or the CISO guiding that team – it’s that the widespread, varying and rapidly changing threat landscape is impossible to keep up with. For every step an organization takes in protecting its infrastructure, attackers are two steps ahead working to figure out how to break in. Why? Hackers are agile, can launch hundreds if not thousands of attacks at a time and, of course, are not constrained by employee, customer and shareholder demands.