By partnering with Westcon, Acme Packet leverages Westcon's global sales force, technical capabilities and breadth of customer relationships to distribute Net-Net SBCs cost-effectively and ensure that enterprises can take full advantage of innovative IP-enabled communications tools. Since working with Westcon, Acme Packet has netted multiple reseller relationships throughout North America and Europe including Carousel Industries, a premier technology solutions provider that designs, implements and maintains powerful converged communication networks for enterprise customers nationwide.

"SBCs are quickly becoming an important part of the network for a wide set of enterprise customers. Having added Acme Packet Net-Net SBCs as part of a complete solution for IP communications, we can continue to deliver on our promise to leverage the best technology the market can offer," said Jeff Gardner, CEO, Carousel Industries. "This gives end-users increased assurance that they can rely on us as their single source for all networking equipment, while enhancing the overall value of their enterprise IP communications investments."

"Large enterprises are demanding applications that foster productivity and collaboration," said Gahn Lane, vice president, service providers, the Americas for Westcon Group. "Acme Packet Net-Net SBCs ensure that a large enterprise can deliver secure, high quality unified communications across its IP network borders. This level of secure access within an IP environment is critical, whether you are an SMB or an enterprise customer."

"The interoperability and security challenges for enterprises planning to deploy SIP trunks make Acme Packet's Net-Net SBCs a critical part of the network infrastructure," said Seamus Hourihan, executive vice president of marketing and product management for Acme Packet. "Westcon helps resellers and ultimately government, contact center and enterprise customers better understand how to tackle these new challenges."

About Westcon Group

Westcon Group, Inc. is the leading specialty distributor in networking, security, mobility and convergence for leading technology vendors, including Cisco, Avaya, Polycom and others. Through its Comstor, Westcon Convergence and Westcon Security business practices, Westcon Group sells products and services to resellers, systems integrators and service providers around the world. Westcon Group has particular expertise in the convergence of voice, data and video applications and technologies, including voice-over Internet protocol, or VoIP, security for networking and communications systems, remote access, Internet and e-business, virtual private networks, videoconferencing and wireless connectivity. For more information, visit www.westcongroup.com.

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 980 customers in 104 countries. They include 90 of the top 100 service providers in the world; and 11 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 benefits and features of sessions border controllers, 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; 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; its cash needs; 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.

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