Acme Embraces OSR

LAS VEGAS -- Acme Packet® (NASDAQ: APKT), the leader in session border control solutions, today announced the deployment of its Open Session Routing (OSR) architecture and products, and its ecosystem of companies, for delivering trusted, first-class SIP-based interactive communications within and between mobile, fixed-line and transit networks. Today, Acme Packet’s Net-Net® Session Router and its OSR ecosystem members’ products and services are operational in several tier-one service provider networks around the world. In contrast with traditional session-stateful approaches, these solutions are designed to simplify core and inter-network session routing and reduce capital and operational expenditures as service providers transition to and further evolve their next generation networks.

Acme Packet’s OSR architecture features the use of Acme Packet’s Net-Net Session Router (SR), a session routing proxy, working in conjunction with best-of breed routing database products and services from Acme Packet OSR ecosystem members. (See today’s related release Acme Packet Establishes Ecosystem for Acme Packet Open Session Routing Architecture.) These complementary product vendors and service providers offer centralized routing databases and database provisioning tools for dynamic route selection. Acme Packet’s Net-Net SR, as well as the Net-Net Session Director session border controller (SBC), queries the members’ databases using industry-standard ENUM, SIP and DNS protocols. The Net-Net SR’s local route tables may also be provisioned by these members’ products or the Acme Packet Net-Net EMS using XML. Using these databases, dynamic routing decisions within the core IP network and to the PSTN and other IP networks may be made using a wide selection of parameters.

“Tier-one wireless and wireline service providers are looking for more open, scalable and cost-effective core session routing solutions that can evolve as their networks do,” said Seamus Hourihan, vice president of marketing and product management at Acme Packet. “Several tier-one deployments of Acme Packet’s Open Session Routing solution signal an impending sea change away from monolithic, session-stateful products to session-stateless routing proxies leveraging best-of-breed routing databases.”

Acme Packet Inc. (Nasdaq: APKT)