High market penetration drives Acme Packet expansion in EMEA
Industry leader opens new offices in Dubai, Jordan and Stockholm to meet growing
service provider and enterprise demand for session border controllers
BURLINGTON, MA, and PARIS, FRANCE, September 8, 2009 — Acme Packet, Inc. (NASDAQ: APKT), the leader in session border control solutions, today announced that it has opened new offices in Europe and the Middle East to support its large and growing customer base and increased use of interactive IP communications services in the region. The new offices will also facilitate Acme Packet’s ability to service and support in-region global 2000 companies looking to leverage session border controllers (SBCs) to secure large enterprise networks. These new office locations will provide pre-sales, sales, and system engineering technical service for Acme Packet’s growing customer base in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
With the addition of Dubai, Jordan and Stockholm, Acme Packet now has a physical presence in 14 countries across the region including Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain and the U.K. Acme Packet has also expanded its facilities in Madrid, Spain, to include a training facility for customers and partners, a lab environment for interoperability testing, engineering support and enhanced technical support from the location.
According to the most recent Carrier IP Telephony Session Border Controller report by Dell’Oro Group, Acme Packet is the world’s leading provider of SBCs with 73% market share in EMEA for the calendar year 2008. In total, 275 customers have deployed Acme Packet’s market-leading SBCs in EMEA including 24 of the top 25 service providers in the region. Acme Packet’s customers in EMEA accounted for 35% of the company’s total number of customers worldwide.
“As the market for trusted, secure, interactive IP communication services, SIP trunking and VoIP peering in EMEA accelerates, Acme Packet is well-positioned to capture this opportunity and serve its growing customer base of service providers and enterprises,” said Andy Ory, president, CEO and co-founder of Acme Packet. “We look forward to expanding the company’s range and reach into new markets and forming stronger relationships with customers, systems integration and distribution channels, and complementary product partners.”
About Acme Packet
Acme Packet, Inc. (NASDAQ: APKT), the leader in session border control solutions, enables the delivery of trusted, first-class interactive communications—voice, video and multimedia sessions—and data services across IP network borders. Our Net-Net family of session border controllers, multiservice security gateways and session routing proxies supports multiple applications in service provider, enterprise and contact center networks—from VoIP trunking to hosted enterprise and residential services to fixed-mobile convergence. They satisfy critical security, service assurance and regulatory requirements in wireline, cable and wireless networks; and support multiple protocols—SIP, H.323, MGCP/NCS, H.248 and RTSP—and multiple border points—service provider access and interconnect, and enterprise access and trunking. Our products have been selected by more than 830 customers in 95 countries. They include 48 of the top 50, and 89 of the top 100 service providers in the world; and 8 of the Fortune 25. For more information, contact us at +1 781.328.4400, or visit www.acmepacket.com.
Acme Packet, Inc. Safe Harbor Statement
Statements contained herein that are not historical fact may be forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Such forward-looking statements may relate, among other things, the ability to facilitate service and support and to secure large enterprise networks, as well as Acme Packet’s expected range and reach into new markets and its relationships with new customers, distributions channel and product partners. Such forward-looking statements do not constitute guarantees of future performance and are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated. These include, but are not limited to: difficulties expanding its customer base; difficulties leveraging market opportunities; difficulties providing solutions that meet the needs of customers; poor product sales; long sales cycles; difficulty developing new products; difficulty in relationships with vendors and partners; difficulties in integrating an acquired business; higher risk in international operations; difficulty managing rapid growth; difficulty managing its financial performance; its ability to hire and retain employees and appropriately staff its operations; the spending of the proceeds of its capital raising activities; its cash needs; and the impact of new accounting pronouncements and increased competition. Additional factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected or suggested in any forward-looking statements are contained in the Company’s recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including those factors discussed under the caption “Risk Factors” in such filings.
