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Ribbit: Integrating with BT

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 | located in BT, Platform, SmartSwitch | No Comments »

As we settle in to our colorful new digs, there’s more on our minds than integrating the Ribbit and BT design themes. We’re seeing a clear course for bringing our platform more fully into alignment with all that BT has established, with the first steps in our partnership taking us all futher along on a path we believe in.

That’s great for us—and it’s even more fulfilling when outside observers look in on us and also “get” the connection. Read what Jon Arnold, Principal of J Arnold & Associates, says in his recent IP Communications post.

“Ribbit sees voice as one feature in the data network rather than being THE application that the business is built around. They could see that BT has moved away from that model and was thinking more as a software and services company rather than a phone company.”

His in-depth thoughts are worth a read for anyone interested in learning more about the redefinition of telephony and data services. Thanks to Jon for good insights on the Ribbit-BT partnership. We look forward to working with our developers as our shared vision takes shape.

Tags: BT, Developers, Partnership, Ribbit

Top 10 Things to Know about Ribbit

Thursday, April 17th, 2008 | located in Developers, Ribbit Mobile, SmartSwitch | No Comments »

1. Number of tests run by Ribbit ops to ensure uptime and availability: more than 10,000 (every day).
2. Amazing thing that makes Ribbit what it really is: a proprietary Lucent-tested , Class 5 certified, industry complaint softswitch (the Ribbit SmartSwitch) that’s optimized for next-gen communications and effortless integration into telephony partner infrastructures. Whew.
3. Probability of finding a member of the Ribbit team here in the office at 3:00 am or on a weekend: 71.4% (but don’t worry. It’s because we like it here).
4. Average number of people teaming up in a Ribbit office: 4 (we’re moving soon).
5. Number of methods our API currently delivers for talking to the Ribbit service: more than 40. These include making calls, receiving calls, listening to, reading, recording, and sending voice messages, messaging contacts, all as ready-to-go scripts. Simples methods include makeCall, answerCall, playMessage, sendMessage, and addContacts. Fun!
6. Companies on our founding team’s professional pedigrees: Northern Telecom, AT&T, Cisco, MCI, NorthPoint Communications, Yahoo!, Polycom, Apple, and many more.
7. Number of strategic customer, press or partner meetings held at Ribbit in a typical week: 11. Ratio of these meetings to number of employees in our company: 1: 3.8 (it’s quite a pace).
8. Number of frog effigies currently in residence at Ribbit headquarters: 53 (and counting) (plus one very strange little dragon-like thing).
9. Things we can’t wait to get out there: Ribbit for Salesforce, Amphibian, and the Ribbit Store.
10. Why we do it. Because we believe that the world needs a new kind of phone company. And we’re here to build it for you. Thanks for staying tuned from all of us at Ribbit.