Acme Packet, BroadSoft Announce IMS Xpress

BEDFORD, Mass., and GAITHERSBURG, Md. -- Acme Packet® (NASDAQ: APKT - News), the leader in session delivery networks, and BroadSoft, Inc. (NASDAQ: BSFT - News), a leading provider of communications applications for IP networks, announced today that they have developed IMS Xpress, a simplified solution for IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) deployments.

IMS Xpress brings together the power of Acme Packet's Net-Net SIP Multimedia-Xpress (SMX) solution and BroadSoft's BroadWorks® communications application solution to provide a pre-integrated, interoperable solution that:

IMS Xpress leverages years of collective experience delivering field-proven, industry-leading solutions to the world's largest service providers. It is IMS standards compliant, and goes beyond technology integration to include joint business processes for product design, implementation and support.

"Service providers are looking to build revenue generating applications using the IMS architecture, but many IMS solutions have been too complicated and costly to operate," said Andy Ory, chief executive officer, Acme Packet. "Through our joint solution with BroadSoft®, IMS Xpress includes a fully-interoperable service that allows for rapid deployment of new services in a cost effective manner."

Acme Packet Inc. (Nasdaq: APKT)

BroadSoft Inc.