HanseNet Selects Acme Packet&apos

German service provider HanseNet Telekommunikation GmbH has selected and deployed Acme Packet’s Net-Net 4500 Session Director "SD" session border controllers for its Alice DSL consumer VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) service.

The eight Net-Net 4500 high availability pairs are located in HanseNet’s access network, operating in a combined topology that delivers resilience, security and traffic load management to all of HanseNet’s installed softswitches and media gateways.

Besides Alice DSL, HanseNet offers fixed line, mobile and HDTV triple play services to consumers and businesses. An Acme Packet customer since 2007, HanseNet currently services more than 2 million residential and business subscribers in its fast-growing footprint.

Founded in 1995, Hamburg-based HanseNet has operated as a subsidiary of Telefonica O2 Germany GmbH & Co. OHG since February, 2010. HanseNet offers voice and data services as so then as multimedia and Internet access and complete telecommunications solutions over its extensive broadband access network.

HanseNet chose the Net-Net 4500 SD to offload key functions from its softswitches and to block certain types of traffic from reaching its core network.

"Acme Packet’s session border controllers helped us save money by enabling more efficient use of our core network capacity," said Sebastian Seggert, network development project manager for HanseNet, in a statement.

Seggert said that the Net-Net 4500 is helping the company manage the growth of voice traffic over the company’s network so that the expansion into new PoPs throughout the country can be conducted more efficiently.

Way to extend

"We are pleased that long-standing customers just as HanseNet are continuing to invest in Acme Packet solutions as a way to extend and expand its service offerings," said Dino Di Palma, vice president of worldwide sales and business development for Acme Packet.