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February 02, 2013


TMCnet Session Border Controller Week in Review


By Carlos Olivera
TMCnet Content Producer

This week in Session Border Controller news, TMC (News - Alert) announced ACME Packet as a recipient of the 2012 INTERNET TELEPHONY Product if the Year Award winner. ACME Packet, a provider of session delivery solutions, was recognized for its Net-Net 6300 session delivery platform. The Net-Net 6300 is designed to deliver the most trusted service to the most advanced and largest IP communication networks.


"At Acme Packet (News - Alert), we strive to help our customers, both service providers and enterprises, meet the constant demand for next generation communication services by providing innovative and cutting-edge technology and solutions, and we're grateful that the editors at INTERNET TELEPHONY have recognized this effort."              

In other and unrelated SBC news, DIGITALK (News - Alert) has unveiled its latest version of its SBC VoIP Peering (News - Alert) Release 4. The newest version will include a number of new features like Wholesale Billing, simple release mapping configuration and greater control over call rate limits. With the new features, users will be able to generate automatic invoices, creation of credit notes and track payments and maintain a customer’s live balance.

"Release 4 demonstrates DIGITALK's commitment to SBC VoIP Peering as the complete solution for competitive wholesale service providers. Following a number of significant updates in 2012 to accommodate features such as US Jurisdictional Routing and LNP, the addition of Wholesale Billing in Release 4 continues the momentum in 2013,” said Paul Bassa, VP Product Marketing at DIGITALK.



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