Arcor Picks Acme

BURLINGTON, Mass. -- Acme Packet® (NASDAQ: APKT), the leader in session border control solutions, today announced that Arcor, the second largest German wireline operator, has deployed Acme Packet’s Net-Net® session border controllers (SBCs) as part of its strategic agreement to adopt Italtel’s Next Generation Networks (NGN) architecture. The architecture has been utilized to create a Class 4 VoIP solution to expand the current transit network and a Class 5 solution to develop new IP telephony and multimedia services for residential and business customers.

Utilizing the multi-service architecture of the Net-Net SBCs, Arcor is supporting both its interconnect and access border requirements for VoIP and other IP interactive communications. This flexibility has enabled Arcor to integrate separate application servers to launch sophisticated enterprise services via Class 4 SIP-trunking. Arcor has deployed the Net-Net SBCs in seven points-of-presence (PoPs) in high-availability (HA) configurations.

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