Telefonica Moviles Espana Delivers 3G Video Telephony Through Acme Packet.BURLINGTON, Mass. -- 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) today announced that Telefonica Moviles Espana, Group Telefonica Moviles' mobile operator in Spain, is using Acme Packet's 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. to deliver its new 3G video telephony See videophone. services. Telefonica Moviles Espana offers digital mobile and telephony services in Spain under the brand name of "Movistar." It is the Spanish market leader, with more than 19.6 million subscribers. This new 3G, SIP-based, video telephony service, enables subscribers to use both wireless and wireline connections for their interactive video communications. In delivering this service, Acme Packet's Net-Net session border controllers support subscriber access. They provide a comprehensive set of security functions including access control, network topology See topology. hiding and DoS protection against both signaling and media attacks and overloads. To maximize the numbers of subscribers reachable by the service, the adaptive NAT traversal Passing through network address translation (NAT) to reach a user. NAT hides private IP addresses from the public Internet; however, voice over IP (VoIP) and videoconferencing calls that originate from outside the network must locate the user's IP address. See STUN, UPnP and NAT. feature enables the video calls to cross existing data firewalls at the customer premise over a broadband connection See broadband and wireless broadband. from a secure network element managed by Telefonica Moviles Espana. "Telefonica Moviles Espana is taking the lead among the major wireless providers to actually deliver innovative interactive communication services," declared Andy Ory, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Acme Packet. "This deployment with Telefonica Moviles Espana also significantly extends our relationship with Group Telefonica from wireline hosted business and residential VoIP services to wireless." About Acme Packet Acme Packet, the leader in session border control solutions, 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 over 160 service providers, including 20 of the top 25 providers in the world, to satisfy critical security, service assurance and regulatory requirements in wireline, cable and wireless networks. These deployments support all applications - from VoIP trunking 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. |
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