Acme Packet launches first SBCs to be qualified under Microsoft's new Enterprise SBC category in UCOIP

Acme Packet (Nasdaq: APKT) this week unveiled its Net-Net session director enterprise Session Border Controller (E-SBC) solutions for Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Lync Server 2010. Acme Packet is the first company to be qualified as part of the new Enterprise SBC category in Microsoft's Lync Server Unified Communications Open Interoperability Program, which is designed to ensure customers can easily setup, support and use qualified telephony infrastructure and services in conjunction with Microsoft's unified communications software, including Lync Server and Exchange Server.

Acme Packet E-SBCs are designed to complement Lync Server by delivering advanced SIP features and protecting investments in legacy telephony infrastructure, said Kapil Sharma, principal group program manager for Microsoft.

"With Lync Server, Microsoft has successfully extended the power of unified communications to embrace desktop voice and video communications," stated Mark Vella, vice president of business development for Acme Packet. "The new E-SBC category in the UCOIP program recognizes the important multivendor interoperability and control functions offered by E-SBCs in IP communications environments, and we're excited to be the first qualified E-SBC in the program."

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