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Acme Packet Becomes Premier
Tenant in tekVizion Labs
Leader in Session Border Control Endorses
Third-Party Testing Program
BURLINGTON, MA and RICHARDSON, TX (July 18, 2005)
– Acme Packet®, Inc., and tekVizion™ PVS, Inc.,
the new standard for systems integration, announced today that
Acme Packet has signed an agreement to become a Premier Tenant
in tekVizion Labs™, the first lab of its kind offering third-party
certification and testing for Voice over IP (VoIP) products and
services.
“Premier Tenants” are vendors that provide their
products to tekVizion Labs to allow them to be used in certification
testing performed by tekVizion Labs and/or to make them available
to other vendors and service providers for remote testing. Premier
Tenant status significantly enhances the vendor’s test capacity
by turning tekVizion Labs into an extension of the vendor’s
own test facilities. Premier Tenant status also speeds up test
turnaround time and provides priority interoperability testing.
Resident in the lab is the Acme Packet Net-Net Session Director
(SD), a high performance, high capacity session border controller
that optimally delivers premium interactive communications—voice,
video and multimedia sessions—across wireline, wireless
and cable IP network borders.
tekVizion Labs offers several types of testing services involving
both remote and on-site testing at tekVizion Labs. Remote testing
can be used for pre-certification or ad-hoc test scenarios, whereas
formal certification is conducted on-site at tekVizion Labs by
tekVizion engineers. Certification can be provided between two
products or in a multi-product solution. All lab services are
available to both vendors and service providers.
“Our commitment to third-party testing provides an additional
level of assurance to service providers that the Acme Packet Net-Net
session border controllers interoperate smoothly with a growing
list of IP network components for converged networks,” said
Seamus Hourihan, vice president, marketing and product management
at Acme Packet. “Being a Premier Tenant in tekVizion’s
unique program is a plus for Acme Packet.”
“Acme Packet’s products are used by service providers
worldwide,” said Terri Griffin, tekVizion’s COO. “Every
time an industry leader like Acme Packet becomes a tekVizion Labs
Premier Tenant, the entire VoIP industry takes a solid step forward.”
Potential customers of tekVizion Labs can request testing via
the tekVizion Labs website (www.tekVizionlabs.com)
or by contacting the program director, Jerry Mistrot. The tekVizion
Labs website allows anyone to register to be notified when new
Premier Tenants join the lab, when products are certified, and
when new services are offered by the Labs.
About Acme Packet
Acme Packet, the leader in session border control, enables service
providers to deliver premium, interactive communications - voice,
video and multimedia sessions - across IP network borders. Our
Net-Net family has been selected by 9 of the top 10, and 16 of
the top 25 service providers in the world to satisfy critical
security, service assurance and law enforcement requirements in
wireline, cable and wireless networks. These deployments support
all applications - from trunking to hosted enterprise and residential
services; all protocols – SIP, H.323, MGCP/NCS and H.248;
and all border points - interconnect, access network and data
center. For more information, contact us at +1 781.328.4400, or
visit www.acmepacket.com.
About tekVizion PVS, Inc.
tekVizion (www.tekvizion.com)
is setting the new standard for systems integration in the telecommunications
industry. tekVizion Labs™ is the first interoperability
certification lab of its kind, and tekVizion’s suite of
FastForwardSM services helps service providers achieve
a smooth transition to packet-voice networks, speeding delivery
of integrated services. tekVizion leverages its real-world, multi-vendor
integration and test experience and proven processes to provide
leading vendors, carriers, and enhanced service providers with
solutions that meld legacy and next-generation resources. tekVizion’s
headquarters, along with a state-of-the-art test lab and Executive
Briefing Center, is located in the Telecom Corridor® in Richardson,
Texas.
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tekVizion and tekVizion Labs are trademarks of,
and FastForward is a service mark of tekVizion PVS, Inc. Acme
Packet is a registered trademark of Acme Packet, Inc. Telecom
Corridor is a registered trademark of the Richardson Chamber of
Commerce. All other names are trademarks of their respective companies. |
