Acme Packet Becomes Premier Tenant in tekVizion Labs; Leader in Session Border Control Endorses Third-Party Testing Program.BURLINGTON, Mass. & RICHARDSON, Texas Richardson is a suburb in Dallas County and Collin County, Texas. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 91,803, while according to a 2006 estimate, the population had grown to 99,200. -- 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(R), Inc., and tekVizion(TM) PVS PVS 1 Persistent vegetative state, see there 2. Pulmonary valve stenosis , Inc., the new standard for systems integration, announced today that Acme Packet has signed an agreement to become a Premier Tenant in tekVizion Labs(TM), the first lab of its kind offering third-party certification and testing for Voice over IP (VoIP) products and services. "Premier Tenants" are vendors that provide their products to tekVizion Labs to allow them to be used in certification testing performed by tekVizion Labs and/or to make them available to other vendors and service providers for remote testing. Premier Tenant status significantly enhances the vendor's test capacity by turning tekVizion Labs into an extension of the vendor's own test facilities. Premier Tenant status also speeds up test turnaround time (1) In batch processing, the time it takes to receive finished reports after submission of documents or files for processing. In an online environment, turnaround time is the same as response time. and provides priority interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. testing. Resident in the lab is the Acme Packet Net-Net Session Director (SD), a high performance, high capacity session border controller 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. that optimally delivers premium interactive communications -- voice, video and multimedia sessions -- across wireline, wireless and cable IP network borders. tekVizion Labs offers several types of testing services involving both remote and on-site testing at tekVizion Labs. Remote testing can be used for pre-certification or ad-hoc test scenarios A set of test cases that ensure that the business process flows are tested from end to end. They may be independent tests or a series of tests that follow each other, each dependent on the output of the previous one. The terms "test scenario" and "test case" are often used synonymously. , whereas formal certification is conducted on-site at tekVizion Labs by tekVizion engineers. Certification can be provided between two products or in a multi-product solution. All lab services are available to both vendors and service providers. "Our commitment to third-party testing provides an additional level of assurance to service providers that the Acme Packet Net-Net session border controllers interoperate See interoperable. smoothly with a growing list of IP network components for converged networks The integration of the telephone system with IP-based data networks. See softswitch. (networking) converged network - A single network that can carry voice, video and data. ," said Seamus Hourihan, vice president, marketing and product management at Acme Packet. "Being a Premier Tenant in tekVizion's unique program is a plus for Acme Packet." "Acme Packet's products are used by service providers worldwide," said Terri Griffin, tekVizion's COO. "Every time an industry leader like Acme Packet becomes a tekVizion Labs Premier Tenant, the entire VoIP industry takes a solid step forward." Potential customers of tekVizion Labs can request testing via the tekVizion Labs website (www.tekVizionlabs.com) or by contacting the program director, Jerry Mistrot. The tekVizion Labs website allows anyone to register to be notified when new Premier Tenants join the lab, when products are certified, and when new services are offered by the Labs. 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, 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. About tekVizion PVS, Inc. tekVizion (www.tekvizion.com) is setting the new standard for systems integration in the telecommunications industry. tekVizion Labs(TM) is the first interoperability certification lab of its kind, and tekVizion's suite of FastForward(SM) services helps service providers achieve a smooth transition to packet-voice networks, speeding delivery of integrated services In computer networking, IntServ or integrated services is an architecture that specifies the elements to guarantee quality of service (QoS) on networks. IntServ can for example be used to allow video and sound to reach the receiver without interruption. . tekVizion leverages its real-world, multi-vendor integration and test experience and proven processes to provide leading vendors, carriers, and enhanced service providers See ESP. with solutions that meld legacy and next-generation resources. tekVizion's headquarters, along with a state-of-the-art test lab and Executive Briefing Center, is located in the Telecom Corridor(R) in Richardson, Texas. tekVizion and tekVizion Labs are trademarks of, and FastForward is a service mark of tekVizion PVS, Inc. Acme Packet is a registered trademark of Acme Packet, Inc. Telecom Corridor is a registered trademark of the Richardson Chamber of Commerce. All other names are trademarks of their respective companies. |
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