Acme Packet and Counterpath Partner to Give Operators the Solution to the Internet OTT Threat

BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS, Feb 12 (MARKET WIRE) --
Acme Packet(R) (NASDAQ:APKT), the leader in session delivery networks,
and CounterPath (NASDAQ:CPAH) (TSX:CCV), a leading developer of
award-winning desktop, tablet and mobile VoIP software products and
solutions, today announced a joint solution based on CounterPath's
market-leading Bria softphone and Acme Packet's market-leading Net-Net
session border controller (SBC). The solution is targeted at service
providers looking to extend service footprint and increase subscriber
base by tapping into the growing demand for "over-the-top" (OTT) services
that leverage the Internet for real-time voice and video communications.

News Highlights:

-- The joint solution is the first to leverage Acme Packet's
implementation of an emerging standard known as Tunneled Service Control
Function (TSCF), which delivers an infrastructure-based alternative for
real-time, over-the-top (OTT) communications.

-- CounterPath's Bria mobile edition, a SIP-based softphone for Apple
iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, as well as Google Android, now integrates
tunneling innovations from Acme Packet that enable increased secure
connectivity, enhanced firewall traversal, and interoperability with Acme
Packet's SBCs.

-- The Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), the standards
organization that oversees the development of IP Multimedia Subsystem
(IMS), is currently working to standardize the TSCF function.

-- Acme Packet and CounterPath designed this solution for service
providers looking to provide secure voice, video, IM, presence, and SMS
to mobile apps - with higher levels of quality and reliability than
current solutions.

-- The joint solution helps customers extend the reach of their services
by allowing tunneled sessions to traverse network borders, even in the
presence of strict firewalls.

-- With Acme Packet's patent-pending tunnel redundancy, the solution
improves media quality under adverse network conditions and the Internet,
where packet loss is common. Both signaling and media are replicated to
ensure the highest possible quality of experience.

-- The solution also features CounterPath's Client Configuration Server,
which is used by service providers to deploy and provision the
CounterPath mobile app.

Joint Solution Benefits:

-- Secure VoIP and video communications for mobile applications on iPhone,
Android, and Windows devices
-- Maximum service reach with strict firewall traversal
-- High voice quality and surmount packet loss for off-net or OTT VoIP
services
-- Call continuity across Wi-Fi and mobile networks
-- Open and standards driven tunneling technology for both signaling and
media
-- Service provider-grade IP communications and security leveraging
hardware assisted encryption and tunneling technologies
-- Protection against malicious attacks and non-malicious overloads for OTT
services
-- Support for standard codecs, regardless of signaling or media type

Quotes:

-- "This partnership with Acme Packet only enhances our Telco-OTT offering
to service providers with a high-quality, real-time solution that
guarantees secure calls in even the strictest network environments. As a
result, we believe this joint solution will provide a better experience
than what Skype and other OTT players currently offer," said Todd
Carothers, Executive Vice President of Marketing and Products,
CounterPath. "This solution demonstrates our ongoing commitment to
innovation as we continue to provide operators with the technology to
beat Internet OTT offerings."

-- "In order to compete in the emerging telecommunications industry,
traditional telephony providers must learn to embrace Internet
philosophies and deliver new and differentiated services via a Telco-OTT
model," said Dean Bubley, founder, Disruptive Analysis. "Acme Packet and
CounterPath's joint solution enables service providers to strengthen
their OTT service portfolio by improving quality and security."

-- "Traditional service providers are increasingly concerned with OTT
providers taking subscribers away from their business," said Pat
MeLampy, chief technology officer, Acme Packet. "This joint solution
enables service providers to compete directly with other OTT offerings
and keep customers on their networks. By choosing CounterPath, an
industry leading VoIP technology, and Acme Packet, the market leader in
SBCs, our customers can deliver all the benefits of OTT services, offer
security and reliability, as well as simply interoperate with pre-
existing services."

More about Acme Packet and CounterPath:

-- Acme Packet and CounterPath will be demonstrating the joint solution
at the upcoming Mobile World Congress, offering select attendees the
opportunity to "test drive" the solution through a service offered
exclusively during the event.

-- Acme Packet at Mobile World Congress

-- Acme Packet and OTT Communications

More about Acme Packet:

-- The Packet

-- The Session

-- Community

-- Twitter

-- Facebook

-- LinkedIn

About CounterPath

CounterPath's standards based VoIP softphones are changing the face of
telecommunications. The BYOD VoIP favorite, Bria softphone for mobile
devices and desktop, together with the company's easy-to-use client
management, provisioning and configuration server enables enterprises,
service providers, and OEMs around the globe to offer a seamless and
unified communications experience across both fixed and mobile networks.
Standards-based, cost-effective and reliable, CounterPath's award-winning
solutions power voice, video, messaging, and presence that empower
customers such as Alcatel-Lucent, AT&T, Verizon, BT, Mobilkom Austria,
NTT, Rogers, Avaya, BroadSoft, Cisco Systems, GENBAND, Metaswitch
Networks, Mitel and NEC.

For more information about CounterPath's Bria softphone applications and
CCS solutions, visit: www.CounterPath.com/products.

CounterPath Forward-Looking Statements

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overall, with a strong sales pipeline, channel partners coming on-line
and favorable long-term market trends, our outlook for continued growth
remains very positive.

It is important to note that actual outcomes and the Company's actual
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among others: (1) general economic conditions as they affect CounterPath
and its current and prospective customers, including a continued downturn
in general economic conditions internationally, (2) the variability in
our sales from reporting period to reporting period due to extended sales
cycles as a result of selling our products through channel partners or
the length of time of deployment of our products by our customers (3) the
Company's ability to control its operating expenses, which may adversely
affect its financial condition, (4) a decline in the Company's stock
price or insufficient investor interest in the Company's securities which
may impact on the Company's ability to raise additional financing as
required, (5) the Company's ability to remain competitive as other better
financed parties develop and release competitive products, (6) the impact
of intellectual property litigation that could materially and adversely
affect our business, (7) the success by the Company of the sales of its
current and new products, (8) the impact of technology changes on the
Company's products and on our industry, (9) the failure to develop new
and innovative products using the Company's technologies, (10) the
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time-to-time with the Securities and Exchange Commission at www.sec.gov
and the Company's interim and annual filings and other disclosure
documents filed from time-to-time on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.

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
primarily in the USA, selling them through over 330 reseller partners
worldwide. More than 1,925 customers in 109 countries have deployed over
21,000 Acme Packet systems, including 89 of the top 100 service providers
and 51 of the Fortune 100. For more information visit www.acmepacket.com.

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Contacts:
Media and Industry Analysts
Acme Packet
Mike O'Malley
+1 781-869-2975
apktpr@acmepacket.com
www.acmepacket.com

Media and Industry Analysts
CounterPath
Dana Sissons
+1 604-628-9369
dsissons@CounterPath.com
www.CounterPath.com

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