06.2009 - Cooperation with Acme Packet

Acme Packet and Sprint have began to cooperate in the realization of safe joint VoIP with other operators for Vectra company.

Acme Packet (NASDAQ: APKT), leader in SBC solutions, has announced that Sprint, a leading integrator and distributor of products connected with IP communications, will begin to distribute SBC solutions from the family named Net-Net and will support their implementation for Internet service providers in Poland. As the result of this new distribution agreement, VECTRA, the second largest cable operator and triple play service provider in Poland, has chosen SBC Net-Net solutions in order to supply VoIP services for its clients – residential subscribers.
Net-Net 4250 SD solution contains a safety packet Net-SAFE, providing VECTRA with protection against breaks in service supplies or loss of profit caused by an intended attack or overload.

“We have chosen SBC Acme Packet solutions for the needs of our IP network because verbal communication is quickly becoming an essential, profitable service offered on our market”, said Ryszard Jezierski, responsible for stationary telephone development in VECTRA. “By cooperating with Sprint and Acme Packet we could efficiently implement operator class SBC solutions to ensure safety of the network, accessibility and quality of conversations, and use the new opportunities to increase profits given by VoIP technology”.

Acme Packet

Acme Packet, Inc. (NASDAQ: APKT), leader in SBC solutions (Session Border Controller), which enable realization of safe, high quality interactive communications services – verbal, video and multimedia sessions – as well as data transmission on the verge of IP network services. The family of SBC solutions named Net-Net are multiservice safety systems ensuring advanced session routing with the use of Proxy, supporting various applications in the networks of service providers, companies and Contact Center solutions, from trunking VoIP, hosted enterprise, to services for residential subscribers and mobile and converged solutions.
These solutions fulfill conditions of network safety, services accessibility and rules in wire, cable (HFC) and wireless networks. They also support various protocoles – SIP, H.323, MGCP/NCS, H.248 and RTSP, operate many types of joints – access links, interconnect, access for companies and trunking. Over 675 clients in 95 countries have chosen our products, including 29 out of the 30 most important, 89 out of 100 biggest providers in the world, and six from the Fortune 25 group.
More information can be found under number or on the page www.acmepacket.com

VECTRA

VECTRA Group www.vectra.pl is the second biggest cable operator and triple play service provider in Poland. The company operates in 152 cities and the number of its clients exceeds 740 thousands. VECTRA offers almost 140 television channels in digital version, and also in HD standard, and 50 channels realized by independent local televisions. VECTRA also offers broadband access services to the Internet and stationary telephony. It has 215 thousands of subscribers to the broadband access and 50 thousands of telephone subscribers.