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TMCNet: Acme Packet chosen by state of Delaware

[January 13, 2010]

Acme Packet chosen by state of Delaware

Jan 13, 2010 (TELECOMWORLDWIRE via COMTEX) -- The Department of Technology and Information (DTI), the organisation that provides the technology infrastructure for the state of Delaware, has deployed the Acme Packet's (Nasdaq:APKT) session border controllers (SBCs), the provider of session border control solutions said on Wednesday.


No financial details were disclosed.

Acme Packet said DTI has deployed its Net-Net 4250 SBCs in its two datacentres to provide secure termination of the Verizon Burstable Enterprise Shared Trunking (BEST) service. This allows the state to save money by centralising its connection to the public switched telephone network (PSTN) and reduce connection requirements for multiple government agencies.

Through centralised SIP trunking, the DTI provides a hosted voicemail platform with unified messaging services throughout the state, eliminating the need for additional voicemail systems, maintenance and administration expenses.

In the future, the Net-Net's security, interoperability and scalability is also expected to enable DTI to deliver integrated data, voice and video applications to various state agencies, enable connectivity to PBXs in neighbouring states and facilitate communication in case of a disaster.

The SBCs were employed to secure DTI's IP communication borders while providing connectivity between various government offices throughout the state. Because the state supports both SIP and H.323 IP-PBXs within its network, the company's SIPconnect Compliant Net-Net SBCs with SIP-H.323 interworking enable interoperability for the state's disparate IP telephony infrastructure.

Communications between different IP-PBXs are routed through the SBCs and translated to the proper protocol to complete the call, which allows the state to reduce its total cost of ownership by leveraging SIP trunking while keeping its current IP telephony infrastructure in place.

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