Acme Packet® (NASDAQ: APKT), the leader in session border control solutions, today announced further expansion of its Acme Packet Connected Universe™ program with the addition of four new Constellation members. Acme Packet Connected Universe, launched in November 2006, is designed to facilitate business relationships among Acme Packet-enabled service providers to extend service reach, drive down costs, improve service quality and ultimately leverage new IP interactive communication service opportunities beyond voice.
“Acme Packet Connected Universe opens up new opportunities for growth and partnerships with other service providers that share our goal for the trusted, first-class delivery of IP interactive communications,” explained Richard Lindstrom, vice president of mobile sales and business development for Telecom New Zealand International. “The program enables us to leverage Acme Packet’s broad embedded base of service provider and enterprise customers to easily interconnect with each other and allows us to accelerate our time to market with new services for our customers.”
Acme Packet Connected Universe’s newest members are leading service providers delivering a variety of high-quality, high-demand communications services with Acme Packet, and include Grande Communications, Telecom New Zealand International, VoIP Corporation and XO Communications Services, Inc. The program now has 33 total members, with 20 Constellation members and 13 Star members. The latest additions to the program join a growing community of industry leaders benefiting from the opportunities afforded by Acme Packet’s innovative program. New Constellation members include:
- Grande Communications, Inc. is a Texas-based communications company that provides rapid delivery of innovative wholesale broadband, carrier and ISP services. Enabled by its leading-edge, optical network, Grande delivers communications solutions with flexible service options designed to enable their customers to meet the growing demands for advanced communications solutions.
- Telecom New Zealand International (TNZI) offers a comprehensive range of voice, data and mobile services to both retail and wholesale customers. TNZI is dedicated to connecting all telecommunication providers, with a key focus on mobile (MNO), cable (MSO) and ISP carrier connections to the global community. The company is connected to over 550 countries and directly interconnects with over 200 telecommunications operators through points of presence (PoPs) in Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Tokyo, Singapore, London, Frankfurt, Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland.
- VoIP Corporation, a global communications company, owns and operates one of the largest IP networks in the world, extending service access in more than 15,000 cities worldwide. VoIP Corporation offers customers a complete suite of innovative voice and video IP services, including global peering, PSTN origination, toll free trunking and VoIP-911. The company’s clients include Fortune 500 companies, national ISPs, cable companies, mobile operators, leading VoIP service providers, CLECs, European PTTs and global carriers.
- XO Communications Services, Inc., a subsidiary of XO Holdings, Inc., is a leading provider of 21st century telecommunications services for businesses and service providers, including leading cable companies, carriers, content providers and mobile operators. Utilizing its nationwide IP network and extensive local metro networks and broadband wireless facilities, XO Communications offers its customers a broad range of managed voice, data and IP services in 75 metropolitan markets across the United States.
“As service provider networks become more complex, programs like Acme Packet Connected Universe provide resources for our customers to make it easier for them to achieve their business goals,” said Seamus Hourihan, vice president of marketing and product management for Acme Packet. “With the trusted relationships established through our program, our customers and partners can more easily simplify their networks, using interconnects to eliminate expensive IP-TDM translations and exploit benefits of new IP codecs, and reducing costs by leveraging the IP service infrastructures of other providers.”
Acme Packet will exhibit at NXTcomm in Las Vegas, NV, June 17th to the 19th, 2008, in booth SL5312. In addition, Seamus Hourihan will moderate a panel titled, “Peering—The Protocol for Success,” on June 18th, 2008 at 4 pm PDT, at the IEC Communications Forum at NXTcomm, being held in Rooms S229 - S232 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
About Acme Packet
Acme Packet, Inc. (NASDAQ: APKT), the leader in session border control solutions, enables the delivery of trusted, first class interactive communications—voice, video and multimedia sessions—and data services across IP network borders. Our Net-Net family of session border controllers, multiservice security gateways and session routing proxies supports multiple applications in service provider, large enterprise and contact center networks—from VoIP trunking to hosted enterprise and residential services to fixed-mobile convergence. They satisfy critical security, service assurance and regulatory requirements in wireline, cable and wireless networks; and support multiple protocols—SIP, H.323, MGCP/NCS and H.248—and multiple border points—interconnect, access and data center. Our products have been selected by more than 500 customers in 85 countries, including 29 of the top 30, and 84 of the top 100 service providers in the world. For more information, contact us at +1 781.328.4400, or visit www.acmepacket.com.
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