Acme Packet Partners with Sprint Sp. z o.o. in Poland for Secure VoIP Interconnect Borders
Acme Packet (NASDAQ: APKT), the leader in session border control solutions, today announced that Sprint Sp. z o.o., a leading IP communications equipment reseller and integrator in Poland, will resell and support Acme Packet Net-Net session border controllers (SBCs) for service provider deployments in Poland. Acme Packet also announced that as a result of this new distribution relationship, VECTRA, the second largest cable operator and triple play services provider in Poland, has chosen Acme Packet Net-Net SBCs to deliver VoIP services to its residential customers.
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VECTRA, which has over 740,000 subscribers in over 150 cities in Poland, offers Telewizja Internet Telefon, a residential VoIP service. VECTRA selected Acme Packet’s SBC, the Net-Net 4250 Session Director (SD), to manage and secure its VoIP interconnects with other service providers.
Acme Packet’s Net-Net 4250 SD incorporates Acme Packet’s Net-SAFE security framework which provides VECTRA with protection against service outages or loss of revenue caused by malicious attacks or non-malicious overloads. Net-SAFE provides dynamic access control, topology hiding and fraud prevention to protect VECTRA’s VoIP network. Acme Packet’s flexible call admission control policies allow VECTRA to control the traffic entering its network from other service providers, ensuring service availability and quality. VECTRA also chose the Net-Net 4250 SD for it carrier-class high availability which provides check-pointing of signaling, media and configuration state ensuring no loss of service.
“We chose Acme Packet’s session border controllers for our IP network because voice is rapidly becoming an essential and revenue-generating service offering in our market,” said Ryszard Jezierski, responsible for fixed telephony development in VECTRA. “Working together with Sprint Sp. z o.o. and Acme Packet, we were able to rapidly deploy Acme Packet’s carrier-class SBCs to ensure our network security, availability and call quality, and quickly tap into the new revenue opportunity that VoIP enables.”
“Partnering with leading IP communications companies such as Acme Packet ensures that our service provider customers have a smooth transition to next-generation communication services,” said Monika Fudala, Director of Telecommunication Systems Department for Sprint Sp. z o.o. “With Acme Packet SBCs in the network, VECTRA is able to advance its reputation as a pioneering service provider in Poland and capture the growing opportunity in VoIP services.”
“Eastern Europe is an expanding market for Acme Packet and the maturity of Acme Packet’s SBCs, as reflected in its rich feature set and extensive interoperability, are essential for service providers offering VoIP services,” said Seamus Hourihan, vice president of marketing and product management for Acme Packet. “Our relationship with Sprint Sp. z o.o. is vital to building relationships with innovative service providers, like VECTRA, in Poland going forward.”
About Acme Packet
Acme Packet, Inc. (NASDAQ: APKT), the leader in session border control solutions, enables the delivery of trusted, first-class interactive communications—voice, video and multimedia sessions—and data services across IP network borders. Our Net-Net family of session border controllers, multiservice security gateways and session routing proxies supports multiple applications in service provider, enterprise and contact center networks—from VoIP trunking to hosted enterprise and residential services to fixed-mobile convergence. They satisfy critical security, service assurance and regulatory requirements in wireline, cable and wireless networks; and support multiple protocols—SIP, H.323, MGCP/NCS, H.248 and RTSP—and multiple border points—service provider access and interconnect, and enterprise access and trunking. Our products have been selected by more than 675 customers in 95 countries. They include 29 of the top 30, and 89 of the top 100 service providers in the world; and 6 of the Fortune 25. For more information, contact us at +1 781.328.4400, or visit http://www.acmepacket.com.
About Sprint Sp. z o.o.
Sprint connects telecommunication and IT capabilities, which place our company in the section of rapidly developing corporations of cutting edge technologies. We provide comprehensive services for business and administration customers in the area of telecommunication and network investments. Our company has been operating in the market since 1988. We employ over 800 workers in 5 branches, managing projects in Poland and also in Europe. We are an authorized business partner of key telecommunication vendors who offer a wide portfolio of professional and secure access solutions for IP networks as well as highly integrated telecommunication systems using VoIP technology. Sprint provides the ability to create personalized service packages for business customers, including voice services and multimedia services (call centers, interactive communication, communicators, etc.). We also offer optical transmission technology products, wired and wireless (point-to-point, point-to-multipoint) broadband access, new generation voice communication, IT network security, business communication systems, software supporting operational activity and network infrastructure management. For more information contact us at +48583407700 or visit http://www.sprint.pl.
About VECTRA
VECTRA Group (http://www.vectra.pl) is the second largest cable operator and triple play service provider in Poland. The company operates in 152 towns and cities and the number of its customers exceeds 740,000. VECTRA offers almost 140 television programs emitted in the digital technology, also in HD standard, and 50 programs realized by independent local televisions. VECTRA also offers services broadband Internet access and fixed telephony. VECTRA has 215,000 subscribers of broadband Internet access and 50,000 subscribers of telephony.