MM supplies one quarterof Europe's gas needs

The Companys management team plans to host a live conference call andwebcast at 5:00 p.m. eastern time on that day to discuss the financial resultsas well as managements outlook for the business. The conference call may beaccessed in the United States by dialing (800) 230-1096 and using access code"APKT". The conference call may be accessed outside of the United States bydialing (612) 332-0226 and using access code "APKT". The conference call will besimultaneously webcast on the Companys investor relations website, which can beaccessed at A replay of the conference call will beavailable approximately two hours after the call by dialing (800) 475-6701 andusing access code 979267 or by accessing the webcast replay on the Companysinvestor relations website About Acme PacketAcme Packet, Inc. (NASDAQ: APKT), the leader in session border controlsolutions, enables the delivery of trusted, first-class interactivecommunicationsvoice, video and multimedia sessionsand data services acrossIP network borders. Our Net-Net family of session border controllers,multiservice security gateways and session routing proxies supports multipleapplications in service provider, large enterprise and contact centernetworksfrom VoIP trunking to hosted enterprise and residential services tofixed-mobile convergence.

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Germany and Poland can also get gas via the Yamal pipelinewhich crosses Belarus. Gazprom hasincreased exports through Yamal to help compensate for lowerflows through Ukraine. The third export route is the Blue Stream pipeline, whichruns from Russia to Turkey under the Black Sea. Gazprom said itwas supplying additional gas through the Blue Stream pipeline aswell as from its reserves in European underground storage.

The expansion of the pipeline, which is expectedto be completed by 2010, should boost capacity to 67 billioncubic metres of gas a year through two stretches. GALSI PIPELINE - The 910 mile (1,350 kn) Galsi gaspipeline could bring up to 10 billion cubic metres a year ofAlgerian gas to Italy through Sardinia when it opens in 2012.Italy is pushing the developers, including state-run Algeriangas company Sonatrach and Italy's Enel (ENEI.MI), to finish theproject before then. TRANSMED PIPELINE - Sonatrach is also working to boost thecapacity of the existing 27 bcm/year Transmed gas pipeline whichruns from Algeria through Tunisia and into Sicily, Italy by 6.5bcm per year. MEDGAZ PIPELINE - The 210 km-long, 8 bcm a year Medgazpipeline is planned to bring Algerian gas to Spain frommid-2009. The Sonatrach-led project involves Spain's Cepsa(CEP.MC), Iberdrola (IBE.MC), Endesa (ELE.MC) and GDF Suez(GSZ.PA). NABUCCO PIPELINE - Nabucco is a 8-billion euro project totransport natural gas from Turkey to Austria, passing throughBulgaria, Romania, and Hungary.