Escalating Threats and Awareness Provide New Channel Opportunities RICHARDSON, Texas, June 11
RICHARDSON, Texas, June 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Sipera Systems, the leader in
real-time Unified Communications (UC) security, today debuted its Sipera
Partner Network, providing technology partners, distributors and resellers an
opportunity to add VoIP and UC security to new and existing implementations.
Among other program components, partners benefit from access to Sipera's
award-winning IPCS appliances and world-class VIPER Lab, giving them the
ability to receive a premium for solutions that include Sipera technology and
expertise.
Sipera's comprehensive, real-time UC security solutions seamlessly
interoperate with systems developed by major VoIP infrastructure vendors,
including Avaya, Cisco and Nortel. This upfront compliance reduces unexpected
issues during implementation and allows partners to quickly and cost-
effectively go to market with industry leading UC security appliances.
"As more enterprises deploy VoIP and UC, we anticipate an increase in both
security awareness and emerging threats. With access to Sipera products and
VIPER Lab, we can ensure our customers stay ahead of vulnerabilities inherent
in these networks, and proactively safeguard critical business
communications," said Jeff Graham, CTO at Shared Technologies. "By providing
this security as part of a UC deployment, we can better support our customers
and generate new revenues in the process."
"We're seeing a lot of customer interest in securing VoIP networks and
extending them outside the enterprise by deploying unified communications
applications," said Bruce Steele, VP at Paranet. "But a lot of enterprises are
trusting the equipment vendors to provide UC security, and don't realize they
can deploy purpose built, real time UC security. The Sipera IPCS product
family is ideal for helping our customers protect their brand, networks,
applications and users."
Sipera Partner Network members are also provided with specialized VoIP and
UC security training, sales leads, marketing collateral, technical support and
bulletins, a dedicated web site, and streamlined order and fulfillment.
Sipera distribution partners include Westcon, while Belltech, INSI, Paranet,
Shared Technologies and Vigilar are reseller partners.
"These partnerships are critical to customers' networks so we developed a
partner program that focused on their VoIP/UC needs beyond deployments and
normal operations," said Eric Winsborrow, Chief Marketing Officer for Sipera.
"We expect partners' customers will embrace our products along with partners'
support, and that new partners will likewise welcome adding this expertise to
their portfolios."
The Sipera IPCS solutions offer partners a variety of security
functionalities including threat protection, policy enforcement, access
control and privacy in a single device. The product family spans four
appliances supporting 200 to 50,000 users with throughput from 10 Mbps to 2
Gbps. More information about the Sipera Partner Network is available at
www.sipera.com/partners.
About Sipera Systems
Sipera Systems, the leader in real-time UC security, allows enterprises to
simplify and confidently deploy their VoIP and unified communications over any
network to any device while service providers can protect and quickly enable
new IP-based communication services. Backed by the extensive vulnerability
research of Sipera VIPER Lab, the Sipera IPCS(TM) product provides
comprehensive threat protection, policy enforcement, access control, and
privacy in a single, real-time appliance. For more information, visit
http://www.sipera.com.
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IPCS 410, Sipera IPCS 510, Sipera IPCS 520, Sipera LAVA and Sipera VIPER are
trademarks of Sipera Systems, Inc. All other companies and products listed
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