After the close yesterday, the company announced that is expects to see earnings of $0.26 to $0.28, excluding non-recurring items, versus $0.35 Capital IQ Consensus Estimate; sees revenues for the fourth quarter at $84 million to $86 million versus the $93.02 million Capital IQ Consensus Estimate.
"Our results were impacted by uncertainty in the North American service provider market... Outside of the North American service provider market, Acme Packet continued to perform very well -- particularly in our enterprise business as well as in our Europe and Latin America businesses. Looking ahead, we believe we are very well positioned to leverage the broad, multi-year, secular growth drivers associated with the global transition from TDM to IP for real time communications like voice and video... Heading into 2012, we are very focused on improving our visibility and the level of predictability in the business in the backdrop of the current North American service provider capital expenditure environment."






