By Telecom Lead Team: Acme Packet announced that R Cable
y Telecomunicaciones Galicia, a provider of telephony, television, and
broadband solutions, is using Acme Packet Net-Net Session Director session border
controllers (SBCs) to offer IP-based communications services to enterprise and
residential customers.
R is leveraging Acme Packet SBCs to help secure its
network core and increase the reliability and availability of its services.
“Acme Packet’s SBCs have helped us add flexibility
to our operations, reduce our capital expenditures, and extend our service to
offer subscribers a high-quality portfolio of next-generation services,”
said Oscar Garcia Gago, head of voice services, R Cable.
The versatility of the Net-Net Session Director allowed R
Cable to incorporate the solution into its environment quickly and easily,
minimizing interoperability challenges and speeding time-to-market for new
revenue-generating services.
“Our standards-based session border controllers give
R greater flexibility, while providing a solid foundation for future multimedia
and communications services,” said Mario Oliveira, vice president, Europe,
Middle East and Africa sales, Acme Packet.
By mediating between different signaling, transport, and
encryption protocols, Acme Net-Net Session Director provides interoperability
for voice, video, or multimedia sessions across the Internet.
Acme Packet Net-Net Session Director delivers protocol
interworking to enhance interoperability and accelerates time-to-market.
Placing Acme Packet’s SBC at the access border provides security to R’s network
against denial of service and distributed denial of service attacks, as well as
network overloads. To ensure high availability of services, redundant pairs of
Net-Net Session Director-4500s enable continuity and availability of services.
