Session border control provider Acme Packet (News - Alert) announced on Friday that it was tapped by Italian telecom Wind Telecomunicazioni (Wind) to deliver residential VoIP services.

 

Wind will be able to deliver the new VoIP offering by deploying Acme Packet's Net-Net session border controllers (SBCs). The Net-Net SBCs belong to an Alcatel (News - Alert)-Lucent triple-play deployment and IP network transformation program announced in October 2006.

 

"In order to deliver a market-differentiating VoIP offering in the growing market for IP services, we required a solution that assures premium voice quality while at the same time protecting our network," said Jere Calmes, Wind's chief operating officer. "Acme Packet's Net-Net SBCs deliver the functionality we required with carrier-class performance and reliability while interoperating with the myriad of devices in our network and our customers' homes."

 

Wind will be able to maximize its service reach with minimal or no disruption, thanks to a broad signaling support, combined with Acme Packet's adaptive hosted NAT traversal. Wind's new VoIP services security features will be supported by the Net-SAFE security architecture's topology hiding, access control and denial of service (DoS) attack prevention.

 

"Wind is delivering compelling new IP interactive communication services to the Italian market," said Acme Packet's vice president of marketing and product management Seamus Hourihan in a statement. "Acme Packet is playing a key role in ensuring that those services reach the maximum number of customers and are delivered with premium quality. In addition, our Net-SAFE architecture protects Wind's core VoIP network from attacks, ensuring that the network is available to serve customers."

 

Acme Packet recently made news when it was selected by Impsat Fiber Networks to also deploy its Net-Net SBCs so it can deliver a suite of VoIP products for mid and large enterprises in the Latin American corporate market. Impsat is well known throughout Latin America for its IP hosting and data services. The company's voice network currently serves clients in Argentina, Brazil, Peru, as well as in the US.

 

With Acme Packet's Net-Net products in place, Impsat will be able to tailor its services into a set of different tiers so its customers have more options when choosing their communications services. Impsat might have selected Acme Packet's Net-Net because of the suite's Net-SAFE security features, which can help the company prevent denial of service (DoS) and other kinds of malicious attacks.

 

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