Acme Packet announces four new customers across southeastern Asia. These incumbent, wireless and competitive service providers rely on Acme Packet’s Net-Net session border controllers to control the delivery of trusted, first-class IP communications to their customers. With these four customers, Acme Packet SBCs are now deployed by over 100 service providers in 19 Asia Pacific countries, ranging from Australia to China and India to Japan.

These new customers have deployed Acme Packet’s Net-Net SBCs at fixed and wireless broadband access borders to support residential and business services. The Net-Net SBCs provide critical control functions, satisfying requirements in five major areas: security, service reach maximization, SLA assurance, revenue and profit protection, and regulatory compliance. Acme Packet’s Net-SAFE security architecture protects service provider VoIP networks, assuring network availability and service uptime, with topology hiding and denial of service protection from malicious attacks and non-malicious overloads.

Acme Packet’s new customers include incumbent and competitive service providers from four countries:

• Packet One Networks, Malaysia’s first and leading WiMAX service provider with the country’s widest WiMAX network, sells VoWiMAX VoIP services, using Acme Packet SBCs to secure, control and quality-assure the WiMAX access border.
• SingTel, Asia’s leading communications company, has deployed Acme Packet’s SBCs as a component of its i-PhoneNet service to deliver secure SIP trunking and hosted voice services for its business customers.
• Suntel, a competitive service provider in Sri Lanka, uses Acme Packet Net-Net SBCs in its next-generation network as well as IMS access networks, to provide hosted IP PBX, PSTN emulation and SIP trunking services to its business customers. Suntel utilizes Acme Packet’s sophisticated QoS monitoring capabilities to proactively monitor and assess quality in their network.
• TOT, the Thailand incumbent service provider, has deployed Acme Packet’s SBCs to provide hosted voice and secure SIP trunking services. TOT uses Acme Packet SBCs to protect the core network and provide interoperability among several endpoints and softswitches.

These new Acme Packet customers reflect a time of increased VoIP adoption in the Asia Pacific region. In a series of May 2010 reports, Infonetics Research forecasted that service providers will invest $4.3 billion in VoIP and IMS equipment from 2010–2014 in order to serve over 100 million residential and business subscribers in 2014 in the Asia Pacific region.