BEDFORD, MA, Jun 25, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --Acme Packet(R) (NASDAQ: APKT), the leader in session delivery networks, today introduced the Acme Packet Community, a tightly integrated series of forums and resource centers for Acme Packet customers and partners. The Acme Packet Community is part of the company's newly launched website and can be found at http://community.acmepacket.com/.

News Highlights:

--  The Acme Packet Community is designed to enable collaboration among
    Acme Packet customers, partners, and employees -- facilitating
    peer-to-peer support from answering how-to questions and validating
    configuration concepts.


--  Acme Packet designed the Community to promote peer-to-peer
    collaboration for sharing tools, tips, and techniques around
    deployment, configuration, and operations and management of Acme
    Packet solutions. The Community hosts multiple collaborative support
    areas on topics such as SIP trunking and interconnect, security and
    compliance, interoperability, and IMS.


--  The Acme Packet Community provides developer tools to facilitate the
    adoption of Acme Packet technologies and forums for discussing
    application programming interfaces (APIs) for Acme Packet solutions,
    including Header Manipulation Rules (HMRs) for Acme Packet's session
    border controller (SBC) solutions as well as the Acme Packet Net-Net
    Application Session Controller offering.


--  The Acme Packet Community is also part of Acme Packet's new website,
    which features an intuitive navigation scheme, a partner portal, and
    an innovative corporate and industry news area, known as "The
    Session."

User Benefits:

--  Concept validation from peer-to-peer discussions and assistance
--  Quick and simple access to tools and expertise for developers
--  Forum for building industry relationships and networking
--  Recognition of community leaders

Quote:

"Acme Packet customers and partners have always been very enthusiastic about engaging with their peers in the industry and developing new solutions leveraging our products," said Marianne Budnik, chief marketing officer, Acme Packet. "Now, the Acme Packet Community provides a forum for Acme Packet customers, partners, and employees to share best practices, facilitate developer knowledge transfers, and discuss new industry trends."

More about Acme Packet:

--  The Session
--  Community
--  Twitter
--  Facebook
--  LinkedIn

Tags:

Session initiation protocol, SIP, session delivery networks, SDN, header manipulation rules, HMR, customer engagement, user forum

About Acme Packet

Acme Packet (NASDAQ: APKT), the leader in session delivery network solutions, enables the trusted, first-class delivery of next-generation voice, video, 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 220 reseller partners worldwide. More than 1,600 customers in 107 countries have deployed over 16,000 Acme Packet systems, including 88 of the top 100 service providers and 41 of the Fortune 100. For more information visit www.acmepacket.com.

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SOURCE: Acme Packet