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Acme Packet Announces Interconnect 2005 Worldwide Service Provider Conference.


BURLINGTON, Mass. -- Conference to feature service providers discussing deployment experiences and interconnect (1) To attach one device to another.

(2) A physical port (plug, socket) or wireless port (transmitter, receiver) used to attach one device to another.
 relationships for secure, high-quality IP-based interactive communications

Acme (company, jargon) ACME - /ak'mee/ 1. A Company that Makes Everything. The canonical imaginary business. Possibly also derived from the word "acme" meaning "highest point".

2. A program for MS-DOS.
 Packet,(TM) the leader in session border control, today announced its first worldwide service provider conference, Interconnect 2005, to be held September 14 through 16 in Chatham, Massachusetts Chatham is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, Barnstable County being coextensive with Cape Cod. The population was 6,625 at the 2000 census. Chatham is home to the Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge, located on Monomoy, and to Monomoy Theatre. . Interconnect 2005 will be a unique opportunity for Acme Packet's service provider customers to connect with each other to share expertise and experience as well as to discuss interconnect relationships with other providers from around the world to extend their service reach.

Acme Packet is the market leader in session border control with an enviable en·vi·a·ble  
adj.
So desirable as to arouse envy: "the enviable English quality of being able to be mute without unrest" Henry James.
 customer list that includes over 100 service providers from 25 different countries and every continent. The quality of these customers is remarkable as the list includes 9 of the top 10 and 16 of the top 25 wireline providers in the world, the most innovative tier 2 and tier 3 providers, and a strong and growing list of cable and wireless network providers.

"Our service provider customers are a very impressive group that leads the industry in delivering secure, high-quality IP-based interactive communications," remarked Seamus Hourihan, vice president product management and marketing, Acme Packet. "Interconnect 2005 will be an extraordinary opportunity for an elite group of the world's largest and most innovative service providers to interconnect with one another in a setting carefully designed for this purpose and one not found anywhere else."

Interconnect 2005 will primarily feature Acme Packet's service provider customers discussing their experiences and sharing their insight in panel discussions. There will be a wide variety of both business and technical sessions. Acme Packet will share its future vision and roadmap for the role of session border controllers A Session Border Controller is a device used in some VoIP networks to exert control over the signaling and usually also the media streams involved in setting up, conducting, and tearing down calls.  in a converged fixed/mobile IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem.

(2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS.
 architecture, and will have senior people in product management, engineering, customer service and manufacturing available for interactive one-on-one discussions.

This exclusive invitation-only event is for Acme Packet service provider customers and/or key prospects responsible for the business and/or technical planning of next-generation IP networks and deployment of Acme Packet session border controllers. To express your interest in participating, or for additional information, please visit: http://www.acmepacket.com/html/page.asp?PageID= %7b23EC0D19-E0CD-43DB-AFD2-B40821E79F1A%7d (Due to its length, this URL URL
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About Acme Packet

Acme Packet, the leader in session border control, enables service providers to deliver premium, interactive communications - voice, video and multimedia sessions - across IP network borders. Our Net-Net family has been selected by 9 of the top 10, and 16 of the top 25 service providers in the world to satisfy critical security, service assurance and law enforcement requirements in wireline, cable and wireless networks. These deployments support all applications - from trunking See port aggregation.  to hosted enterprise and residential services; all protocols - SIP (1) (Session Initiation Protocol) An IP telephony signaling protocol developed by the IETF. Primarily used for voice over IP (VoIP) calls, SIP can also be used for video or any media type; for example, SIP has been used to set up multi-player Quake games. , H.323, MGCP/NCS and H.248; and all border points - interconnect, access network and data center.

For more information, contact us at +1 781.328.4400, or visit www.acmepacket.com.
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