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Session border control provider Acme Packet announced on Tuesday it was selected by Level3 Communications Inc. for the company to participate it its (3)VoIP Technology Alliance Program (TAP).
"Acme Packet is honored to be one of the few technology vendors to participate in the (3)VoIP TAP," remarked Seamus Hourihan, vice president product management and marketing, Acme Packet. "This program is one of the first of its kind in the industry dedicated to working with vendors to enable service provider connections to Level 3's network in a quick and efficient manner."
Acme's Net-Net session border controllers feature access control, network topology hiding at layer 3 & 5; hosted NAT traversal; DoS protection; session admission control based upon available bandwidth and observed QoS; L2 & L3 QoS marking, VLAN, 802.1p, ToS, DiffServ, MPLS; QoS reporting; SIP-H.323 interworking, H.323 version and configuration interworking, bandwidth policing, QoS theft protection; session replication and routing for lawful intercept (e.g. CALEA); and 5Gbps packet filtering, 3 microseconds latency, 32,000 concurrent sessions, 10/100 and 1000 Mbps Ethernet interfaces.
"As a market leader in session border controllers, Acme Packet is a natural fit for the (3)VoIP TAP program," Craig Schlagbaum, vice president of Channel Development for Level3. "Acme Packet is certified in our interoperability labs and we share many joint customers that interconnect with the Level 3 network. We look forward to working together as VoIP, video and other multimedia services continue to gain momentum in the market."
(3)VoIP TAP provides interoperability testing between Level3 and numerous IP equipment vendors and network providers. According to the companies' news release, "the program speeds time to market by increasing confidence in vendors solutions that have already been proven with Level3's wholesale services network including (3)Voice, (3)VoIP Enhanced(SM) Local, (3)VoIP Toll Free(SM), and (3)VoIP Local Inbound."
Through this partnership, Acme Packet's Net-Net session border controllers will support subscriber access. They provide a set of security functions comprised of access control, network topology hiding and DoS protection against both signaling and media attacks and overloads. The adaptive NAT traversal feature will enable the video calls to cross existing data firewalls at the customer premise over a broadband connection from a secure network element managed by Telefónica Móviles España.
Acme Packet
Level3 Communications, Inc.
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Johanne Torres is contributing editor for TMCnet and Internet Telephony magazine. To see more articles by Johanne Torres, please visit Johanne Torres' columnist page.
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