MetaSwitch Inks Agreement to Resell Acme Packet Session Border Controllers
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Market Leaders in IP Communications Form Relationship Focused on Removing Barriers to the Deployment of Next-Generation Network Services
Wednesday April 8, 2009, 1:11 pm EDT
LAS VEGAS, NV--(MARKET WIRE)--Apr 8, 2009 -- MetaSwitch Forum 2009 -- Acme Packet® (NasdaqGM:APKT), the leader in session border control solutions, and MetaSwitch, a leading vendor of next-generation carrier switching and application solutions, today announced that they are building upon their long-term interoperability relationship by entering into a reseller agreement. Under this new agreement MetaSwitch will sell Acme Packet's family of session border controllers (SBCs) as an addition to its call agent, media gateway and application server product offerings for service providers looking to deploy IP voice and multimedia communication services.
Together MetaSwitch's core networking products and Acme Packet's SBCs offer a fully-supported joint solution with proven interoperability and closely coordinated customer support, removing any hurdles and uncertainty for service providers making the transition to a next-generation IP network. When combined, these network elements provide core session control, media/signaling gateway, application server and SBC functions, and scale to meet the network migration requirements of service providers of all sizes. |
