Sipera Systems and voipGATE Create a Partnership to Secure Enterprise Unified Communications and SIP Trunks

RICHARDSON, Texas and LUXEMBOURG, April 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sipera Systems, the leader in real-time Unified Communications (UC) enablement and security, and voipGATE, a Luxembourg-based, Voice over Internet (VoIP) operator and provider, today announced a partnership to better secure enterprise UC and SIP trunks.  The partnership enables voipGATE customers to benefit from comprehensive UC security through the Sipera UC-Sec appliances, and the Sipera E-SBC session border controller, the industry's first device for SIP trunk termination to include a unique enterprise VoIP integration module for rapid installation and implementation.

"voipGATE complements its enterprise VoIP solutions  and services with a SIP trunk service that connects business telephony systems with the Internet.  Sipera's E-SBC secures these SIP trunks and ensures the confidentiality of business critical communications," said Paul German, Vice President, EMEA Sales for Sipera.  "By partnering with voipGATE, we can support even more enterprises adopting VoIP and UC, and utilizing SIP trunks, without the risk of violating information security and privacy compliance mandates."

"Working with Sipera ensures our business customers can quickly deploy VoIP solutions and secure their UC applications over any network, to any device," said Jorge Marques, COO at voipGATE.  "And, for those customers adopting our SIP trunk service, Sipera's cost-effective E-SBC dramatically simplifies SIP trunk deployment and management."

voipGATE's greatest customer advantage is the cost savings from inbound and outbound telephone charges.  This translates into immediate savings for businesses.  Many voipGATE clients have found cost reductions of 25 percent or substantially higher as a result of using voipGATE as their SIP VoIP provider.  Conventional local and international telephone services costs are a sizable percentage of most businesses' current telecom budget. voipGATE SIP Trunking Services  are designed to save money while delivering excellent quality.

voipGATE's VoIP solutions delivered with VoIP SIP trunking enable companies with multiple offices anywhere in the world to call free of charge between offices as long as voipGATE VoIP Service is installed at each location.  Deployment of the service delivers significant savings to customers that have measurable amounts of existing interoffice communication utilizing traditional telephone company services that include international long distance rates.

By joining Sipera's and voipGATE's competencies, customers will now also be able to secure their communications by using Sipera's groundbreaking solutions, thus having a double business benefit through cost reductions and improved security.

Sipera's UC-Sec appliances proactively address security risks associated with UC applications such as VoIP, instant messaging, IP video and collaboration tools, enabling government agencies and enterprise customers to adopt UC applications and apply comprehensive security. Sipera's groundbreaking "Borderless UC" architecture enables all communications to be encrypted and compliant on any UC device, at any internal and external location.

About Sipera Systems

Sipera Systems, the leader in real-time Unified Communications (UC) security solutions, is the choice of enterprises and service providers around the world to support their mission-critical UC deployments.

Sipera offers groundbreaking solutions that secure voice, video, messaging, collaboration, and other real-time communications in converged IP networks, boosting compliance with information security requirements and simplifying the adoption of UC. Sipera's innovative Borderless UC™ architecture delivers secure and private enterprise-class communications to any device over any network in any location.

Backed by the industry-leading research of the VIPER lab, Sipera's award-winning UC-Sec appliance provides comprehensive threat protection, policy enforcement, access control, and encryption in a single, flexible, plug-and-play device. The UC-Sec is pre-integrated with all market-leading UC vendor solutions and is the world's first UC security device to be Common Criteria certified, meeting the stringent international standard for IT security.

About voipGATE

Founded in 2004 and based in Luxembourg, voipGATE is part of DCL Group and operates locally and worldwide as a leading operator in Voice over IP, by offering telecommunication services and local phone numbers in more than 60 countries, allowing customers to establish virtual presences in their key markets. voipGATE has strong partnerships with key PBX and mobile device vendors to ensure and offer its customers both flexibility and ease of use.

voipGATE has also been accredited technological partner of the .TEL which has contributed to recently position voipGATE as a key player within the VoIP and communication industry. The collaborative and communitarian platform, voip.org, is another initiative from voipGATE, launched in 2009 and enabling VoIP professionals to communicate about their products, new trends and whitepapers in a unique and reliable location.

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