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Session delivery networks provider Acme Packet (News - Alert) has announced that Spanish telecommunications and data transmission carrier Jazztel has deployed Acme Packet Net-Net 4500 session border controllers (SBCs) to host IP PBX (News - Alert) services for business customers and provide international wholesale peering services and in-country IP interconnects.

"In the 12 years we have been in operation, we have progressively consolidated and expanded our service offering to now include wholesale VoIP, Internet, broadband and carrier's carrier interconnects," said Antonio Montero, network director at Jazztel, in a statement.

"We chose Acme Packet products for their flexibility to eliminate a wide variety of interoperability issues with softswitches and gateways used by our peering customers and with endpoints,” Montero added. “As a result, we have also been able to provision peering service providers and business VoIP customers much faster."

Jazztel opted for Acme Packet products as they enabled the carrier to scale its IP communication service offerings. After years of offering small business VoIP services, Jazztel expanded its capabilities to support large enterprises through hosted IP PBX environments. To enable this, the company replaced traditional time-division multiplexing (TDM) switches and converged TDM/IP media gateways under softswitch control with Acme Packet products in order to scale its business VoIP services.

"Jazztel has taken advantage of the latest IP communication technology and successfully monetized this investment across several business models," said Dino Di Palma, Acme Packet's senior vice president of worldwide sales and business development, in a statement. "We worked closely with Jazztel on a technical level to help them scale both their retail and wholesale communication services."

Recently Acme Packet announced that Level 3 Communications launched a new service for enterprise customers in conjunction with Level 3 Session Initiation Protocol (News - Alert) (SIP) Trunking using an Acme Packet Net-Net SBC.

The new Managed Session Border Controller (SBC) enables enterprises to get the protection they need with the added benefits of increased interoperability, quality-of-service management and detailed reporting, company officials said.