Sipera Systems Receives Unified Communications(R) Magazine's 2009 Product of the Year Award

RICHARDSON, Texas, April 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Sipera Systems, the leader in real-time Unified Communications (UC) enablement and security, announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC®) has named Sipera's SLiC (Secure Live Communications) smartphone UC security solution as a recipient of a 2009 Unified Communications magazine Product of the Year Award.

SLiC makes smartphone VoIP and UC "ready for business" by providing enterprise-class communications privacy, compliance and security.  SLiC is the industry's first system that enables enterprises to safely and securely extend their IP-based communications applications to employee smartphones, dramatically increasing enterprise flexibility and responsiveness.  SLiC permits companies to deploy VoIP, UC, Cloud Telephony, IP video, collaboration tools, instant messaging, and other low-cost and feature-rich applications without risking compliance violations or putting information security in jeopardy.

"Enterprise smartphone VoIP and other UC applications must be secure, and fully compliant with security and privacy mandates and best practices.  SLiC secures smartphone VoIP, satisfies logging and archiving mandates, and enables all enterprise communications features to be securely enabled on the smartphone," said Adam Boone, Vice President of Marketing and Product Management for Sipera.  "Enterprises using SLiC today are offloading millions of cellular roaming minutes to VoIP and enjoying powerful features like four-digit enterprise extension dialing on their smartphones.  This Unified Communications Product of the Year award reflects our expertise developing comprehensive UC security and VoIP security for enterprise VoIP, IM, and video, and the growing demand to secure enterprise smartphones."

"It is an honor to grant Sipera Systems a 2009 Product of the Year Award for its SLiC smartphone security solution.  Sipera has proven its dedication to quality and excellence while supporting the needs in the marketplace," stated Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC.  "We look forward to seeing continued advancement in technology solutions from Sipera in the future."

A complete list of Product of the Year Award winners will be published in the March/April 2010 issue of Unified Communications magazine.

About Unified Communications magazine

Launched in July 2007, Unified Communications magazine is devoted to educating enterprise decision makers on why and how they need to deploy unified communications (UC) solutions.  Every issue of Unified Communications magazine features a comprehensive news section; case studies of successful deployments and lessons learned; interviews with leading hardware and software companies; and an 'industry' section, featuring analysis of important mergers and acquisition, partnerships and a Wall Street perspective on the unified communications market.  Unified Communications has a readership of 100,000.  For more information, please visit www.uc-mag.com.

About TMC

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) is a global, integrated media company helping our clients build communities in print, in person and online. TMC publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, and NGN magazines. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. TMCnet is read by two million unique visitors each month on average worldwide, according to Webtrends. TMCnet has ranked within the top 3,500 in Quantcast's Top U.S. sites, placing TMCnet in the nation's top .03% most visited Web sites. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO (ITEXPO); 4GWE Conference and M2M Evolution (in conjunction with Crossfire Media); Digium|Asterisk World (in conjunction with Digium); and Smart Grid Summit (in conjunction with Intelligent Communication Partners).

TMC also serves technology professionals with industry-specific Web sites: IT.TMCnet.com, 4G-wirelessevolution.TMCnet.com, M2M Evolution.com, Smart-Grid.TMCnet.com, Smart Products Ecosystem, Robotics.TMCnet.com, Cable.TMCnet.com, Satellite.TMCnet.com, Green.TMCnet.com, Healthcare.TMCnet.com, and Education.TMCnet.com.

For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.

About Sipera

Sipera Systems is the worldwide market leader in solutions for the rapid and simple adoption of Unified Communications (UC).  Thousands of users around the globe rely on Sipera to secure VoIP, IP video, collaboration, messaging and dozens of other high-performance applications.  Sipera's groundbreaking "Borderless UC" enables secure communications to any device in any location.

Backed by the extensive vulnerability research of the Sipera VIPER Lab, Sipera's solutions for VoIP security and UC security enable enterprises to deploy remote teleworkers, distributed call centers, business continuity, pandemic planning, secure SIP trunks, toll fraud prevention, media logging and archiving, and many other communications innovations.  For more information, visit http://www.sipera.com.

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