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January 17, 2007
Acme Packet SBC's Enhance Charter Telephone's VoIP Network
By Johanne Torres, TMCnet Contributing Editor
Acme Packet (News - Alert) announced Wednesday that Charter Communications will use its Net-Net session border controllers for its Charter Telephone VoIP network. The Net-Net suite will allow Charter to connect to application service providers and offer IP-based interactive communication services in a protected network environment.
"Charter continually seeks out means to provide new and innovative services to our telephone customers," said Charter's senior director, Engineering-Telephone Armando Ruiz in a statement. "We look for products, like Acme Packet Net-Net SBCs, that give us a critical advantage as we expand our services, both in terms of offerings as well as geography.”
The Acme Packet Net-Net SBCs support multiple protocols and applications and feature access control lists, call rate limiting and topology hiding. The Net-Net SBCs also perform ENUM queries, enabling optimized call routing.
"Charter clearly understands that new revenue and cost savings opportunities can be realized with our Net-Net SBCs," commented Seamus Hourihan, Acme Packet's vice president of marketing and product management. "With years of experience serving our cable customers, Acme Packet is uniquely positioned to assist innovative companies like Charter to address the challenges associated with the deployment of real-time interactive IP-based voice, video and multimedia sessions in cable broadband networks."
Today's news comes on the heels of Acme Packet's similar deal with German wireline operator Arcor. Arcor also opted to deploy Acme Packet's Net-Net session border controllers (SBCs) in a move to adopt Italtel's Next Generation Networks (NGN) architecture. The architecture will be used to create a Class 4 VoIP system, which will expand the company's transit network and a Class 5 system. This will enable the company to develop new IP telephony and multimedia services for its residential and business customers.
With Net-Net SBCs' in place, Arcor will be able to support both it's interconnect and access border requirements for VoIP and other IP interactive communications. Arcor will also be able to integrate application servers to launch enterprise services via Class 4 SIP-trunking. The company has deployed the Net-Net SBCs in seven points-of-presence (PoPs) in high-availability (HA) configurations.
Want to learn more about VoIP Communications? Then, you can't miss the INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO East taking place next week, January 23-26, 2007 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Be sure to also check out Rich Tehrani’s view of VoIP and other technologies in the communications industry for 2007.
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Johanne Torres is contributing editor for TMCnet and Internet Telephony magazine. To see more articles by Johanne Torres, please visit her columnist page.
Internet Protocol (IP) | X | | IP stands for Internet Protocol, a data-networking protocol developed throughout the 1980s. It is the established standard protocol for transmitting and receiving data
in packets over the Internet. I...more |
Electronic Numbering (ENUM) | X | | The ITU-T International Telecommunications Union Telecommunications telephone numbering standard that specifies the telephone number-type address format used for ISDN-Integrated Services Digital Netwo...more |
Next-Generation Network (NGN) | X | | There are many approaches to the future of networks. There is no one net but only a collection of networks....more |
Voice over IP (VoIP) | X | | A real-time communications system that converts voice into digital packets containing media and signaling data that travel over networks using Internet Protocol....more |
(source: http://ipcommunications.tmcnet.com/hot-topics/gateway/articles/4588-acme-packet-sbcs-enhance-charter-telephones-voip-network.htm)
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