Session border control (SBC) specialist Acme Packet reported its third quarter revenue was up by a third from last year to $29.6 million, though net income was down to $5.5 million from $6.8 million reported in the third quarter of 2006.

Andy Ory, president and chief executive officer of Acme Packet, said, “We were able to further expand our customer base in our core service provider market and issue our first public announcements of customers in the large enterprise and contact center markets.  Looking ahead, we’re excited by the growth opportunity for our session border controllers in our core market as well as our prospects for growth in large enterprises and contact centers.”

The announced customers included Echopass, and the La Quinta and Extended Stay hotels, which have outsourced their managed network services for voice communications to Thing5 LLC. Acme Packet also announced its Net-Net SBCs have been selected by Broadview Networks and deployed by Bandwidth.com.

Acme Packet also formed a partnership with Camiant, a provider of policy control solutions, to help deliver commercial SIP-based VoIP services for cable operators.

Separately, Acme Packet announced that Telecom Italia Sparkle (TI Sparkle), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Telecom Italia, has deployed Acme Packet Net-Net SBCs at its network’s core borders in major cities in Italy, Germany and the U.S.