Aspect Leverages Acme Packet Enterprise SBCs with Verizon IP Trunking and Microsoft® Lync?

Aspect helps organizations apply Microsoft® unified communications and collaboration to enable its clients to achieve optimal results through enhanced business processes across the enterprise and in the contact center. Aspect as well leverages Microsoft Lync globally for all of its own voice and voicemail services, audio and web conferencing, instant messaging and presence. Aspect was among the first of Verizon's and Microsoft's mutual clients to benefit from effectively employing Microsoft unified communications applications across Verizon's IP Trunking solution for more cost-effective and high-performance application delivery.

Verizon IP Trunking features the company's Burstable Enterprise Shared Trunk capability, which enables clients to use idle trunk capacity at one location to accommodate an increase in traffic at another. This reduces the total number of voice communications trunks required to link the company's locations, should the contingency arise to offering cost savings.

The Verizon IP Trunking service

Acme Packet's E-SBC connects Aspect's global employees to users beyond its Microsoft Lync domain via the Verizon IP Trunking service. In this role, the E-SBC routes SIP sessions, applies signaling and media controls to incoming and outbound SIP session traffic, and establishes demarcation between the Aspect and Verizon networks. By implementing Verizon's award-winning VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) solutions, including the company's IP Trunking service, Aspect has been able to achieve greater control over its call routing and management, as so then as significant savings through the consolidation of traditional local access lines and trunks.

"As part of our deployment of Microsoft Lync, we needed to ensure that we could communicate reliably with the outside world, and Acme Packet plays a key role in making that happen," said Jamie Ryan, Aspect's Senior Vice President, Information Research and Chief Information Officer. "The fact that Acme Packet's E-SBC was UCOIP-qualified made it an easy choice for deployment with our Verizon IP Trunking service."

"Enterprises making the transition from TDM to IP want the security of knowing that their communications environments are highly reliable and will interoperate seamlessly with SIP trunking services," said Dino Di Palma, Acme Packet's senior vice president of worldwide sales and business development. "Our E-SBCs are a great fit for enterprises like Aspect, who require a fully-qualified system to ensure the availability of its UC infrastructure, services and applications."

Verizon Communications Inc., headquartered in New York, is a global leader in delivering broadband and other wireless and wireline communications services to mass market, business, government and wholesale clients. Verizon Wireless operates America's most reliable wireless network, serving more than 93 million clients nationwide. Verizon as well provides converged communications, information and entertainment services over America's most advanced fiber-optic network, and delivers innovative, seamless business solutions to clients around the world. A Dow 30 company, Verizon employs a diverse workforce of more than 195,000 and last year generated consolidated earnings of $106.6 billion. For more information, visit www.verizon.com.

Acme Packet, the leader in session border control solutions, enables the trusted, first-class delivery of at once-generation voice, data and unified communications services and applications across IP networks. Our Net-Net product family fulfills demanding security, service assurance and regulatory requirements in service provider, enterprise and contact center networks. Based in Bedford, Massachusetts, Acme Packet designs and manufactures its products in the USA, selling them through over 140 reseller partners worldwide. More than 1,300 clients in 105 countries have deployed over 11,000 Acme Packet systems, including 90 of the top 100 service providers and 30 of the Fortune 100. For more information visit www.acmepacket.com.

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