Acme Packet Announces Venue and Dates for Interconnect 2011

Acme Packet®, the leader in session border control solutions, today announced that its seventh annual worldwide user conference, Interconnect 2011, will be held May 8-10 in Monaco at the Fairmont Monte Carlo hotel. This year's event moves to Europe for the first time, and will offer Acme Packet's service provider and enterprise clients from around the world a in a class by itself opportunity to come at the same time and learn about the business issues, critical technologies, and key products for delivering secure, interoperable, and reliable end-to-end IP communications.

The agenda for Interconnect 2011 will focus on the latest industry and research trends, including SIP trunking, video conferencing, unified communications, cloud-based IP communications, IP contact centers, IP interconnects and peering, core session routing, IMS-based services, voice over LTE and LTE roaming. The conference will as well include technical tutorials given by Acme Packet subject-matter experts.

Solutions showcase will be open throughout the event

A solutions showcase will be open throughout the event, featuring industry-leading products and technologies from Acme Packet as so then as select solutions partners, demonstrating the latest developments in straightway-generation IP communications. Attendees will as well be able to interact directly with members of the Acme Packet product management, engineering, and customer service teams.

"Interconnect 2011 will provide a forum for our clients to learn and share with their industry peers how to fully realize the value of end-to-end IP communications," said Andy Ory, president and chief executive officer of Acme Packet. "We invite our diverse base of over 1100 service provider and enterprise clients from over 100 countries across the globe to join us in Monte Carlo."

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