Ribbon Communications Inc. is a public company that makes software, IP and optical networking solutions for service providers, enterprises and critical infrastructure sectors.
[3] Ray Dolan initially headed the combined company, while Walsh led the Kandy business unit.
General Bandwidth was founded in 1999 by Paul Carew, Brendon Mills, Ron Lutz and Steve Raich in Austin, Texas, and received initial venture capital funding of $12 million.
[18] In 2007, Genband acquired Tekelec's switching group, which expanded product offerings in application software and SIP trunking gateways.
The company concluded 2008 with the acquisition of NextPoint Networks, which included session border controller (SBCs) and security gateway offerings.
[28] Charles Vogt left Genband in 2013 and David Walsh added the CEO position to his other already held title of chairman.
[30] In September 2014, Genband announced Kandy.io, cloud-based, real-time software support communications marketed as platform as a service (PaaS).
[34] Sonus Networks, Inc. was founded in August 1997 by Jay Pasco-Anderson, Karl Schwiegershausen, Michael G. Hluchyj, Rubin Gruber and Tony Risica.
[citation needed] Hluchyj was chief technology officer, Gruber served as president until November 1998, when Hassan M. Ahmed became CEO and chairman.
The acquisition complemented their existing SBC line with the NET UX series for SIP Trunking and SIP-based UC.
The platform also includes pre-built customer engagement tools, based on WebRTC technology, called Kandy Wrappers.
Kandy was formed when GENBAND announced the launch of its real-time software development communications platform in September 2014.
[42][43] Initially only focused on CPaaS, the scope of the platform was quickly expanded to include GENBAND's Nuvia UCaaS offer, rebranded Kandy Business Solutions (KBS).
[44] On January 11, 2023, American Virtual Cloud and all of its affiliated subsidiaries, including AVCtechnologies and Kandy Communications, declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy.