O1 Communications provider of innovative data and voice telecommunication products has deployed Acme Packet's (News - Alert) Net-Net 4500 platform to expand its SIP peering services to enable service providers to originate and terminate voice calls throughout California via a single IP connection.

 

The Net-Net 4500 provides secure and seamless interconnection of IP networks for multiple services and applications to small and medium-sized enterprises.

 

It offers best-of-breed signaling performance in a carrier-grade 1RU chassis, enables O1 to deliver optimal call quality and assure the service level agreements (SLAs) of its customers through faster and more efficient call admission control (CAC) and QoS marking and reporting. QoS reporting performance is additionally enhanced through optional hardware located on the Network Interface Unit (NIU) of the Net-Net 4500.

 

Seamus Hourihan (News - Alert), VP of Marketing and Product Management for Acme Packet said in a statement that Net-Net 4500 will provide them with the flexibility, performance and capacity needed to fuel the continued growth and expansion of their services.

 

The Net-Net 4500 Secure Services Module (SSM) provides onboard acceleration for IPsec/IKE and TLS session establishment, while configurable hardware located on the NIU provide dramatically improved encryption performance. Improved VPN performance is made available to O1's customers with Net-Net 4500 hardware options that accelerate VPN session establishment and encryption.

 

"Our subscriber base expects nothing less than the highest levels of voice service quality even in the presence of increasing call volumes," said Brad Jenkins, President and CEO for O1 Communications, Inc.

 

He added, "As we expanded our network, the Net-Net 4500 was the easy and logical choice -- we doubled our session performance and capacity relative to our installed Net-Net 4250s by simply loading the same configuration file."