Carrier Access and Acme Packet Complete Interoperability Tests; Further Assuring Complete End-to-End Solutions for Next-Generation Service Providers.BOULDER Boulder, city, United States Boulder, city (1990 pop. 83,312), seat of Boulder co., N central Colo.; inc. 1871. A Rocky Mountain resort and a suburb of Denver, it is the seat of the Univ. of Colorado (1876). , Colo. & BURLINGTON, Mass. -- Carrier Access Corporation (Nasdaq: CACSE CACSE Center for Advanced Computational Science and Engineering ), a leading provider of broadband communications equipment, and 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), the leader in Session Border Control (SBC (1) (SBC Communications Inc., San Antonio, TX, www.sbc.com) A large, national telecommunications company that grew from a multitude of local and regional companies, including Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell, into a single, unified brand by 2002. ), announced compatibility between Carrier Access Adit adit (ăd`ĭt), in mining, underground passage excavated nearly horizontally, with one end open to the earth's surface, usually used to service a mine. The adit end is the furthermost end from the surface, i.e., the location where miners work. (R) 3104 Business Gateway and the Acme Packet Net-Net(R) 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. . As a result, service providers will be able to easily deliver enhanced Voice-over-IP (VoIP) and other real-time interactive IP-based services and applications to business and government users. The Adit 3104 was tested with the Net-Net Session Director (SD) in various real-world calling scenarios, with successful results, achieving complete compatibility. Additionally, the companies confirmed two mutual service provider customers are currently in trials with the same configuration. "With Acme Packet's continued leadership in the SBC market, it only made sense to continue the 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. efforts that we began with the Adit 600 several years ago," said Marty Hahnfeld, senior vice president, Converged Access, Carrier Access. "Compatibility with Acme Packet's Net-Net SD is a key step in our effort to provide our customers with best-of-breed solutions." "Acme Packet's Net-Net session border controllers are interoperating with a long and ever-expanding list of the industry's leading IP-based products in service provider networks around the world," noted Seamus Hourihan, vice president marketing and product management, Acme Packet. "By supporting interoperability between Carrier Access' Adit Business Gateway line and our session border controllers, we provide our customers with a truly carrier-class solution for the delivery of secure, high-quality real-time communications across IP networks." Field-proven and backed by extensive interoperability partnerships, the Carrier Access Adit line of IP access solutions are deployed globally by service providers to meet the growing demand to deliver converged IP services to their business customers. Powering some of the leading IP and VoIP deployments, the Adit products' combination of carrier-grade design, performance and security features at disruptive disruptive /dis·rup·tive/ (-tiv) 1. bursting apart; rending. 2. causing confusion or disorder. price points offers unparalleled cost savings for both business users and service providers. About Carrier Access Carrier Access (Nasdaq: CACSE) provides consolidated access technology designed to streamline communication network operations of service providers, enterprises and government agencies. Carrier Access products enable customers to upgrade access capacity, and implement converged services while lowering costs and accelerating service revenues. Carrier Access' technologies help our customers do more with less. For more information, visit www.carrieraccess.com. 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 -- peering, access network and data center. For more information, contact us at 781-328-4400, or visit www.acmepacket.com. Forward-Looking Statement forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. This press release contains forward-looking statements which reflect management's best judgment based on factors currently known. However, these statements involve risks and uncertainties, including the successful development and market acceptance of new products, the ability to sell new products into new and existing customers, the degree of competition in the market for such products, and other risks detailed in our annual report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. for the year ended December 31, 2004. Such risks and uncertainties could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements included in this press release. |
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