[August 20, 2003]

Agsm Telecomunicazioni Chooses Acme Packet Net-Net Session Border Controllers

Acme Packet announced that Agsm Telecomunicazioni has selected its Net-Net session border controllers for a multi-phased project that will first deliver enhanced SIP-based services to business and residential customers, and will later include peering with other service provider networks. Owned by Agsm, the multi-utility company of Verona, Agsm Telecomunicazioni selected the Net-Net session border controllers for the hosted NAT traversal and advanced security and topology hiding features that are so critical to offering hosted IP services. Later this year when they begin exchanging traffic with other leading IP service providers throughout Italy, the SIP-H.323 signaling interworking functionality will prove critical.

With the deployment of Acme Packet session border controllers, Agsm Telecomunicazioni will expand its offering to include additional hosted IP services to business and residential customers for increased revenue and profits. With the Net-Net products, the network will handle bandwidth-intensive and delay-sensitive applications, such as real-time voice and video, securely and with the high-quality Agsm Telecomunicazioni’s customers have come to expect from their voice network. The hosted NAT traversal feature will enable real-time session-based traffic such as VoIP to easily traverse premise-based firewalls without configuration changes.

“Acme Packet is the only vendor that demonstrated that they can meet our entire set of current and future requirements, including hosted NAT traversal, access control and topology hiding for security, and SIP to H.323 interworking for peering IP networks, all in a high-availability solution,” said Marco Pissarello, business development director, Agsm Telecomunicazioni.

“Thanks to the Acme Packet solution, we can completely broaden the reach of our business, as we will now be able to peer our SIP-only network with H.323-based networks, and with other, previously incompatible networks,” said Pissarello.

“Agsm Telecomunicazioni’s delivery of real-time interactive communications to its customers requires stringent quality of service in a highly available solution,” said Andy Ory, president and CEO, Acme Packet. “With our Net-Net session border controllers, service providers like Agsm Telecomunicazioni can be confident that their networks will meet these demands with ease---all in a single vendor solution delivered in the most compact form factor available today.”

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