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Acme Packet Bows Program Enabling SBC Customers to Set up Voice Peering Links
[November 07, 2006]

Acme Packet Bows Program Enabling SBC Customers to Set up Voice Peering Links


TMCnet Executive Editor
 
Acme Packet (News - Alert) has come up with a new play on voice peering. On Tuesday, the VoIP world’s newest public company announced the launch of Connected Universe, a new program that will facilitate interoperable IP interconnect and peering relationships for interactive IP-based communications services.


 
In a press release, Acme Packet said the Connected Universe program connects service providers equipped with its hardware to one another to extend their service reach, drive down costs and improve overall service quality.
 
VoIP has increased in adoption this decade with iLocus measuring 622.7 billion minutes of VoIP over service provider networks during 2005 and Infonetics Research projecting 47.3 million VoIP subscribers worldwide by the end of 2006. Yet, this growth has resulted in VoIP islands that in most cases require PSTN connections for VoIP traffic to go from one service provider network to the next.
 
IP interconnects enable service providers to realize several valuable benefits, including:
  • Lower costs through reduced capital and operational expenditures made possible by leveraging IP service infrastructure of other providers, eliminating PSTN termination or transit costs
  • Extended service reach by securely and quickly increasing reach in terms of accessible geographies and subscribers
  • Improved quality by eliminating unnecessary IP-to-TDM-to-IP translations and exploiting high-fidelity IP codecs
  • New services and applications that require end-to-end IP connectivity such as interactive video, gaming, multimedia collaboration and more
 
Acme Packet Connected Universe leverages Acme Packet’s growing global community of over 325 service provider customers in nearly 70 countries. The program encourages IP interconnection among all types of service providers including: wireline, wireless, cable and Internet; facilities and non-facilities-based; and incumbent and emerging. Program participants use Acme Packet Net-Net session border controllers (SBCs) to connect to one another directly, via neutral exchanges, or as part of private federations.
 
Acme Packet Connected Universe membership is open to service providers that purchase Net-Net SBCs from Acme Packet directly or from Acme Packet’s distribution partners. With SBCs at each interconnect border, Acme Packet believes participating companies can accelerate time-to-market, as the Net-Net SBCs easily interoperate with each other and help ensure signaling compatibility between networks.
 
“With the rich feature set designed for building trusted, first class VoIP interconnects, our Net-Net SBCs are used extensively for bilateral and multilateral peering and traffic exchange,” said Mario Oliveira, Acme Packet’s vice president, business development. “Our new Acme Packet Connected Universe program leverages our customer base and is designed to bring our customers together to expand their businesses and find the right partners.”
 
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Robert Liu is Executive Editor at TMCnet. Previously, he was Executive Editor at Jupitermedia and has also written for CNN, A&E, Dow Jones and Bloomberg. For more articles, please visit Robert Liu's columnist page.


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