Acme Packet announced today two European carrier customer wins for IMS deployments, according to news releases. Germany's Telefonica O2 Germany and Telnor Sweden both will deploy Acme Packet Net-Net 4000 series session border controllers at access and interconnect borders for IMS services.
Telefonica said in the release it plans to use the Acme Packet gear for IMS-based residential VoIP services, while Telnor plans to use the Net-Net SBCs for hosted business unified communications on its IMS infrastructure. Seamus Hourihan, vice president of marketing for Acme Packet, said IMS went through a stage where hype, rather than actual deployments, ruled the day, but he said that now IMS has arrived.
"We made IMS announcements four years ago initially, and at first, it suffered from more hype than actual realization, like any new architecture," Hourihan said. "But now Acme Packet is involved in more than 100 IMS projects, and most Tier 1 carriers have some sort of IMS project at some point of development."
While Hourihan acknowledged that the majority of current deployments of IMS are in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, he said interest in Latin America and North America continues to grow as well.
For more:
- see the Telefonica O2 Germany press release here
- see the Telnor Sweden press release here
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