Ribbit announces general availability of the Ribbit developer platform, opening the doors to software developers, integrators, and carriers around the globe that are looking for ways to develop and deploy the next-generation of telecommunications services. Ribbit launched the platform today, just 4 months after their acquisition by BT, at the Adobe MAX conference. Adobe MAX is the premier venue for the next-generation Web developers that populate Ribbit's 7,500-plus community.

Today's launch has implications for broad sectors of the global telephony market -- developers, integrators and carriers alike.

The Ribbit Platform: From the Grassroots to the Cloud

The beta version of the Ribbit platform launched in the winter of 2007, and has since grown their developer community to over 7,500 members. Today, the platform boasts many features that were proposed, vetted and tested during that phase. Developers today can use the Ribbit platform to do everything that's required to bring a new communication service to market -- designing, testing, provisioning, deploying, pricing, billing, and monitoring the application, performing each of these functions in a user-friendly, Web-based, on-demand environment.

Carrier Program: "Bring Your Own Network"

The platform can also be tapped by carriers. With the Ribbit "Bring Your Own Network" program, carriers around the globe can use the platform to tap Ribbit's growing community of developers and tap new revenue streams from applications that have already been deployed, such as Ribbit for Salesforce.

Ribbit enables individual developers, enterprises, and carriers with a "programmable communication network." What's notable here is that the "cloud nature" of Ribbit's programmable phone network can be used by third-party developers as well as carrier-partners. By extending the platform to enterprises and other carriers, Ribbit also moves BT one step closer toward delivering its 21st Century Network around the globe.