Acme Packet, a dealer in border control solutions, has claimed that the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) has certified their Net-Net 3820 and Net-Net 4500 Session Border Controller (SBC) products.

The Acme Packet (News - Alert) products are certified for information assurance and interoperability with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) networks. As a result, the products have been listed on the DoD's Unified Capabilities Approved Product List (APL), indicating they have met DOD's Enterprise security requirements for connecting to its networks. 

The company has claimed that their Net-Net SBCs deliver the industry’s richest session border control functionality in terms of architectural flexibility, signaling protocol breadth, control function and feature depth, and carrier-class availability and manageability. 

Acme Packet Net-Net session border controllers (SBC) provide critical control functions to deliver trusted, first-class interactive communications—voice, video and multimedia sessions—across IP network borders. They support multiple applications in service provider, enterprise, government and contact center networks—from SIP trunking to hosted VoIP enterprise and residential services to fixed-mobile convergence. The Net-Net 3820 and Net-Net 4500 products complement the other Acme Packet Net-Net SBC platforms widely deployed in commercial, enterprise and service provider applications. 

Acme Packet SBCs may be configured to control signaling and media control in a single system (integrated SBC), or to control only signaling or media (decomposed SBC). Net-Net SBCs operating on any Acme Packet platform with any supported SBC configuration also participates in a highly-scalable SBC cluster when combined with Acme Packet’s session-aware load balancer, the Net-Net SLB. 

As in the private sector, a new class of interactive applications such as voice over IP (VoIP), video conferencing, and other forms of collaboration is driving the migration in the government sector from the legacy infrastructures to a new generation of all-IP networks. Non-DOD agencies in the Federal space can select the Acme Packet solution knowing the SBC's have met DOD's heightened service, security and interoperability requirements with this certification.

CEO and Co-Founder of Acme Packet, Andy Ory has stated that they are proud that their products have met the DoD's demanding requirements and achieved full certification. They look forward to working with the Department of Defense and other governmental organizations to enable them to leverage the power of all-IP communications.