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Diversified Project Management completes Acme Packet's 123,000 s/f relocation

Diversified Project Management, Inc. (DPM) has completed the construction administration of Acme Packet's new 123,000 s/f, flagship headquarters and the company's relocation into the new facility. Acme Packet relocated from its 75,000 s/f campus in Burlington to 100 Crosby Dr. The new space showcases a three-story atrium with an LED lit glass feature wall and a ground level café, as well as unique Acme Packet brand expressions in common areas such as the reception area, pantries and conference rooms. DPM provided full project management services, including lease review, property due diligence, construction administration, FF&E coordination and move planning. DPM was retained early on and worked directly with Acme Packet to manage an aggressive schedule for the full integration of technology. In addition, DPM worked with the design/build team which included Chapman Construction, Spagnolo Gisness & Associates, Dyer Brown Architects, RDK Engineers and WB Engineers. "With [DPM's] professional expertise, devotion and perseverance, we successfully designed, built and moved into our new Acme Packet facility," said Steve Voto, Acme Packet's director of information technology. "We are pleased to have collaborated with the DPM team in successfully moving to a new headquarters that's representative of the growth, innovation and passion of the Acme Packet brand." About Diversified Project Management, Inc. Diversified Project Management, located in Newton, Mass., Hartford & Stamford, Conn., is an independent owner's representative consulting company that specializes in programming, pre-construction, project management, construction administration, FF&E coordination and move-planning services for corporate, academic, healthcare, manufacturing and biotech clients' construction, renovation and relocation projects. For more information, please visit www.dpm-inc.com. Acme Packet Acme Packet, Inc., 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. Over 10,000 Acme Packet systems have been deployed by more than 1,105 customers in 105 countries. They include 91 of the top 100 service providers in the world and 11 of the Fortune 25.
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