VoIPfone from Brasil supported by ACME Packet

Acme Packet said this week that Brazil’s third largest fixed line service provider, Brasil Telecom, will use its Net-Net session border controllers for the carrier’s VoIPfone service, a SIP-based business and residential VoIP offering.

Brasil Telecom already uses Acme’s Net-Net SBCs to support it Multiconferências IP-based multimedia conference service. The solution provides access control and complete network topology hiding for confidentiality and attack prevention in the VoIP network. Its denial of service (DoS) protection includes session agent DoS protection for Basil Telecom’s SIP servers, softswitches, application servers, media servers or media gateways as well as session border control DoS protection, which provides an autonomic self-protection against malicious and non-malicious DoS attacks and overloads.

Other features being utilized by Brasil Telecom include support for overlapping address using virtual local area networks and Acme Packet’s adaptive hosted NAT traversal mechanism.

Marcelo Frasson, network planning director at Brasil Telecom said Acme Packet’s local support and technology is helping the company to deliver high-quality, real-time voice and multimedia IP services.

Brasil Telecom becomes Acme’s 57^th publicly announced customer. Since Globalcomm in June, Acme has announced Primus Telecom, Cablecom, Broadwing, and XO Communications as customers, BroadSoft as a new partner, and just before Globalcomm filed for its IPO.

The competitive landscape in the session border controller market changed somewhat late last week as the market was touched by the consolidation bug sweeping the industry. One of Acme’s competitors, Netrake, entered into a definitive agreement with Israel-based Audiocodes to be acquired for approximately $10 million plus incentives.

Audiocodes sells voice-over-packet technologies and network products such as media gateways and media servers.

In response to the acquisition, Newport Networks, another player in the SBC space, told VON magazine it would remain independent despite the consolidation trend and is looking to exploit what it perceives as its advantage in the IMS architecture. Newport’s recent results on the London Stock Exchange indicate the company will have to exploit that IMS advantage sooner rather than later if it is to continue to meet expectations.