Plano, TX – Ribbon Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: RBBN), a global provider of real time communications technology and IP optical networking solutions to many of the world’s largest service providers, enterprises, and critical infrastructure operators to modernize and protect their networks today announced that it is supplying VA Telecom, a provider focused on facilitating connectivity in the French B2B market, with a high speed optical solution for connectivity between its data centers.

“Ribbon’s expertise, flexible, proactive approach and technologically superior solutions will enable us to grow together,” said Jérôme Richard, VA Telecom CTO. “We’re now in a position to provide rapid and efficient data transfers to our customers over a new route enabling highly reliable services by leveraging FC64, the fastest Fibre Channel service, and gaining the flexibility to easily evolve our infrastructure as needs change.”

Ribbon’s Apollo 9608D Data Center platform delivers powerful, versatile, and secure optical transport solutions. These highly modular platforms can be customized to precisely meet service transport needs and availability targets, and can evolve economically to accommodate traffic growth and new technologies.

“We are excited to partner with VA Telecom on this deployment,” said Christian Erbe, Ribbon’s Head of EMEA Sales. “This agreement illustrates our ongoing commitment to innovation and customer satisfaction in the rapidly growing Data Center Interconnect segment.”