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Vodafone Spain Uses Acme Packet for 3G Video Telephony Service Delivery
28th February, 2006

US : Acme Packet announced that Vodafone Spain, part of the Vodafone Group -- the world's leading mobile telephony company, is using Acme Packet's Net-Net session border controllers to deliver its 3G video telephony services. Vodafone offers 3G services digital mobile and telephony services to nearly 13 million customers in Spain under the brand name of "Vodafone live! with 3G."

Acme Packet session border controllers extend the capabilities of Vodafone Spain's 3G mobile network and enable seamless real-time conversational video telephony calling over both wireless and wireline connections. In delivering this service, Acme Packet's Net-Net session border controllers support subscriber access with a comprehensive set of security functions including DoS protection against both signaling and media attacks and overloads, access control and network topology hiding. To maximize the numbers of subscribers reachable by the service, the adaptive NAT traversal feature enables the video calls to cross existing data firewalls at the customer premise over a broadband connection from a secure network element managed by Vodafone.

"Vodafone recognizes that 3G video telephony services are an important differentiator and are critical to generating higher revenue from their subscriber base," stated Andy Ory, president and CEO, Acme Packet. "Vodafone also recognizes that session border control is critical to secure, high-quality service delivery and that Acme Packet is the leader in this product category."

About Acme Packet

Acme Packet, the leader in session border control solutions, 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 210 service providers, including 21 of the top 25 wireline and wireless providers in the world, to satisfy critical security, service assurance and regulatory requirements in wireline, cable and wireless networks. These deployments support all applications -- from VoIP 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.