Acme Packet has been selected by two European operators to provide them with IMS-based services.
Telefonica O2 Germany and Telnor Sweden are to use Acme Packet Net-Net 4000 series session border controllers (SBCs) at access and interconnect borders for IMS services.

TELES has launched a new 8 BRI port VoIP Gateway.
The Berlin-based next generation networks and access gateway vendor said the product has been designed to meet demand for a high density, high performance solution for connecting enterprises to public telephony.

Blueslice Networks has sold a SIP-enabled ngHLR, HSS and AAA, bundled into one fully integrated solution, to Unify Mobile.
The SDM platform is to be used by in&phone, one of its mobile operations in Switzerland.
Montreal-based Blueslice's CSP 3000 includes the ngHLR and its Advanced Low Cost Roaming solutions - giving in&phone the ability to offer subscribers new roaming features.

Spitfire has completed interoperability testing and accreditation for its SIP Trunking service with the Panasonic range of phone systems.
This includes Panasonic's next generation phone system, the KX-NCP (Network Communications Platform).

A new tool which allows enterprises to assess if their VoIP solutions are vulnerable to targeted eavesdropping has been released.
UCSniff, from Sipera Systems' VIPER Lab, is a free application which allows network managers find out how easy it is to imitate an enterprise VoIP phone, download a directory and then listen in on confidential calls.

The total Dutch consumer telephony market grew by almost 44,000 connections during the second quarter of 2008 to 5.797 million.
This was despite a 4.2 per cent drop in PSTN/ISDN connections to 2.57 million on 30 June 2008, according to Telecompaper's quarterly update on the Dutch fixed telephony market.