RingCentral announces certified partners program

RingCentral, Inc. (NYSE:RNG), a provider of global enterprise cloud communications and collaboration solutions, has announced a new software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) certified partners program with several industry-leading providers, including VMware, CloudGenix, Riverbed, Cradlepoint, Windstream Enterprise, and GTT Communications, the company said.

RingCentral certifies partner SD-WAN products that are optimized to seamlessly work with RingCentral´s cloud communications and collaboration solutions. Through this program, global enterprises now have a number of certified SD-WAN choices to deploy alongside RingCentral´s solutions.

With the rapid adoption of cloud-first solutions across the enterprise, businesses are increasingly shifting their business applications away from their data centers to public clouds. This shift is making legacy networking architecture quickly obsolete. This in turn is increasing the importance of SD-WAN technology and its role in enabling faster and more cost-effective enterprise deployments. SD-WAN is an ideal companion to unified communications as a service (UCaaS) solutions to deliver optimal quality of service to end users by reducing jitter, packet loss, and latency.

As certified partners of RingCentral, the SD-WAN vendors has announced work seamlessly with RingCentral´s cloud communications and collaboration solutions and are preconfigured for out-of-the-box usage. This enables IT departments to support rapid location expansion and network growth, which can only be delivered through cloud solutions.

RingCentral is a provider of global enterprise cloud communications and collaboration solutions. More flexible and cost-effective than legacy on-premises systems, RingCentral empowers today´s mobile and distributed workforce to communicate, collaborate, and connect from anywhere, on any device.