Acme Packet and Tangerine Partner for SIP-Based Prepaid Calling.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SUPERCOMM 2003 Booth #21377 - Hall B Booth 11061 - Hall C - Hot Technology Pavilion ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 2003 Acme Packet Net-Net session border controllers protect and scale Tangerine tangerine: see orange. tangerine Small, thin-skinned variety of the mandarin orange species (Citrus reticulata deliciosa) of the rue family (citrus family). Connect softswitch application platform Acme Packet(TM), the leading developer of session border controllers, and Tangerine, Inc., a developer of softswitch application platforms, today announced a partnership to help emerging service providers offer innovative, revenue-generating applications. The companies recently completed successful interoperability testing between Acme Packet's award-winning Net-Net(TM) session border controllers, and Tangerine's Tangerine Connect, a softswitch application platform for next generation VoIP networks. The two companies are engaging in joint marketing and sales efforts to enable service providers to deploy advanced revenue generating applications such as SIP-based prepaid calling cards and other enhanced voice services. Tangerine Connect is a softswitch-based application platform for small and medium service providers. Supporting pre-paid conferencing, it provides endpoint authorization and call routing and rating functionality. Acme Packet's Net-Net session border controller protects the Tangerine Connect server infrastructure from DoS attacks and helps the application scale with SIP-based call set-up, server load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them and failover and low latency Low latency allows human-unnoticeable delays between an input being processed and the corresponding output providing real time characteristics. This can be especially important for internet connections utilizing services such as online gaming and VOIP - VOIP is not as important as media flow. The combined solution is a distributed, scalable, highly available affordable architecture that enables providers to grow their network from, say, a single T1 to 400 T1s without changing their architecture. "The combination of Acme Packet's session border controllers and Tangerine Connect creates a joint solution that allows service providers to generate additional revenue by hosting new and innovative applications like SIP-based prepaid calling," said Thomas Howe Thomas Howe may refer to:
"With the Acme Packet Net-Net/Tangerine Connect combination, service providers can easily deploy enhanced voice applications over their SIP network with a scalable, fault tolerant The ability to continue non-stop when a hardware failure occurs. A fault-tolerant system is designed from the ground up for reliability by building multiples of all critical components, such as CPUs, memories, disks and power supplies into the same computer. solution that protects against destructive denial of service attacks," said Jim Hourihan, vice president marketing and product management, Acme Packet. "The market for prepaid calling card services The software support for PC Cards. PC Card applications talk to Card Services. See PC Card. over a packet-based network is ripe for this affordable solution that will enable service providers to increase revenue and profits and decrease network costs." About Acme Packet Acme Packet enables network service providers to deliver premium, interactive communications - voice, video and multimedia sessions - across IP network borders. Our award-winning Net-Net family of session border controllers satisfy critical security, service assurance and law enforcement requirements in wireline, wireless and cable networks. Established in August 2000 by networking industry veterans, Acme Packet is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts Woburn (/'wu.bə(r)n/) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. The population was 37,258 at the 2000 census. Woburn is the birthplace of Anglo-American scientist Benjamin Thompson, a.k.a. . For more information, contact us at +1 781.756.6800, or visit us at www.acmepacket.com. About Tangerine, Inc. Founded in 2001, Tangerine, Inc. is a privately-held and -financed telecommunications equipment manufacturer headquartered in Barnstable on Cape Cod Cape Cod, narrow peninsula of glacial origin, 399 sq mi (1,033 sq km), SE Mass., extending 65 mi (105 km) E and N into the Atlantic Ocean. It is generally flat, with sand dunes, low hills, and numerous lakes. , Massachusetts that is driving its growth through revenue. The Company's flagship product, Tangerine Connect, an affordable, easy-to-deploy softswitch and session controller, has, to date, been deployed at more than 50 service provider locations worldwide. For additional information, please visit www.tangerineinc.com. |
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