Acme Packet, Inc.

www.acmepacket.com
71 Third Avenue
Burlington, MA 01803 USA
+1 781-328-4400
info@acmepacket.com

Company Background

Acme Packet, Inc. (NASDAQ: APKT), the leader in session border control solutions, enables the delivery of trusted, first class interactive communications—voice, video and multimedia sessions—and data services across IP network borders. Our Net-Net® family of session border controllers, multiservice security gateways and session routing proxies supports multiple applications in fixed and mobile service provider networks—from VoIP trunking to hosted enterprise and residential services to fixed-mobile convergence. They satisfy critical security, service assurance and regulatory requirements in wireline, cable and wireless networks; and support multiple protocols—SIP, H.323, MGCP/NCS, H.248 and RTSP—and multiple border points—interconnect, access and data center.

Acme Packet’s WiMAX Solution

Acme Packet’s WiMAX access solution features its Session Border Controllers (SBC) and Multiservice Security Gateway (MSG) deployed at the access border of the SIP or IMS service network. For IP interconnect and peering with other service providers, Acme Packet’s SBC mediates the differences between networks as well as provides security, quality and cost controls at the interconnect border.

Acme Packet’s Net-Net Session Director (SD) provides critical control functions to deliver high quality interactive communications—voice, video and multimedia sessions—and streaming video across WiMAX IP access and interconnect network borders. The Net-Net SD provides 5 critical areas of control:

Security – protects the SBC and softswitches and other elements of the service delivery infrastructure ensuring network and service availability. Acme Packet’s SBC provide denial of service protection from malicious attacks and non-malicious overloads.

Service reach maximization – extends the reach of services by enabling interoperability to maximize the different types of networks and devices supported. The Net-Net SD enables sessions to traverse data firewall/NAT devices, bridges networks using overlapping, conflicting or different IP addresses, mediates between different signaling, transport and encryption protocols, converts incompatible codecs, and translates signaling-layer telephone numbers, addresses and response codes.

SLA assurance – assures session capacity and quality by performing admission control to ensure that both the network and service infrastructure has the capacity to support a session with high quality. SBCs also monitor and report actual session quality to determine compliance with performance specifications set forth in service level agreements between service providers, contact centers and large enterprises, and their external or internal customers.

Revenue and cost optimization - helps service providers increase revenues or control costs by protecting against both bandwidth and quality of service theft, routing sessions optimally to minimize costs, and providing accounting and related mechanisms to maximize billable sessions.

Regulatory compliance – enables compliance with government-mandated regulations worldwide, including emergency services such as E-9-1-1 and lawful intercept.

For dual mode handsets and femtocells, Acme Packet’s Net-Net Security Gateway (SG) securely wires subscribers to their mobile WiMAX voice and data services over the untrusted Internet and WiFi networks. The Net-Net SG authenticates endpoints, secures the voice and data traffic within IPsec tunnels to ensure privacy and protect against theft, and defends against DoS/DDoS attacks on the mobile service infrastructure to deliver non-stop service.
 

Alianza Corporation

www.alianza.com
333 So 520 W Suite 350
Lindon, UT 84042 USA
+1.801.772.2076
sales@alianza.com

Company Background

Alianza’s award-winning hosted voice platform enables WiMAX service providers to quickly add a feature rich voice offering to their broadband service - with no capital expenditure. Alianza offers both residential and business-class features. Core platform components are unified into a single interface, providing a seamless back-office experience. Competitive products are cobbled together using disparate 3rd party components; Alianza’s proprietary technology, built from the ground up, provides a cost effective and customizable platform for each service provider.

WiMAX service providers are looking for long-term solutions for delivering a broad range of IP telephone and voice applications to their customers. Adding VoIP can double your Average Revenue Per User (ARPU), decrease churn and create customer loyalty. But finding the capital, taking the time, and hiring the right folks to build it from the ground up is a formidable task. Alianza removes that barrier with their hosted voice platform.

Alianza’s WiMAX Products & Solutions

The platform is flexible, featuring API’s that allow integration of back office administration and optimization of operational efficiencies. For example Alianza provides a single point of administrative interface. One click in the management portal propagates 17 different processes and remotely enables devices, eliminating process management issues that arise - saving time and money.

Another benefit is a fixed fee pricing model enabling service providers to deploy voice services without investing any up-front capital. Alianza’s aggressive pricing also reflects the fact that there are no built-in licensing fees for third party components, as often is the case with competitors. An additional benefit of a hosted solution is the ability to launch in a fraction of the time it would take to build a complex in-house solution. We invite you to learn more about Alianza’s technology by visiting www.alianza.com.