Sipera Systems, a provider of real-time Unified Communications (UC) enablement and security, and voipGATE (News - Alert), a Luxembourg-based Voice over Internet (VoIP) operator, announced their alliance to secure enterprise UC and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) trunks.  

With the strategic partnership, voipGATE customers will benefit from UC security through the Sipera (News - Alert) UC-Sec appliances and the Sipera E-SBC session border controller since device for SIP trunk termination will include enterprise VoIP integration module for quick 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, in a statement.  

By partnering with voipGATE, Sipera Systems can support more enterprises adopting VoIP and UC, and utilizing SIP trunks, without the risk of violating information security and privacy compliance mandates.

The main advantage to voipGATE customer is the cost savings from inbound and outbound telephone charges. This is expected to result into savings for businesses. Many voipGATE clients found cost reductions of 25 percent as a result of using voipGATE as their SIP VoIP provider.  

“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 (News - Alert), 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 VoIP solutions delivered with VoIP SIP trunking enable companies with multiple offices to call free of charge between offices as long as voipGATE VoIP Service is installed at each location. This helps at a time when local and international telephone services costs are a sizable percentage of businesses' telecom budget.

Recently, Sipera Systems and Future Com, a provider of security and network management solutions, entered into a partnership to secure enterprise unified communications. Their combined expertise is expected to ease deployment of security and network systems in McAfee (News - Alert) environments.