Sipera Systems Achieves Key Milestone, Protects up to One Million Unified Communications Devices Worldwide

RICHARDSON, Texas, April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Sipera Systems, the leader in real-time Unified Communications (UC) enablement and security, announced today it has reached a key company growth milestone as its market-leading security and compliance products now protect up to one million UC devices for its customers worldwide.

Sipera's solutions provide comprehensive privacy, security and control across the range of enterprise UC applications, including VoIP, video, messaging, collaboration and others.  The company's Borderless UC™ architecture enables enterprise managers to safely extend UC over any network to any device, including office phones, home office phones, remote call center agents, video devices, soft-phones, collaboration tools, and even smartphones.

In addition to this important growth milestone, Sipera's recent progress includes:

• Achieving 300 percent year-on-year growth in demand as of the first quarter of 2010, marking 2,400 percent growth in demand over 24 months.
• Enacting significant new distribution agreements that now make the company's award-winning solutions available throughout the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Asia-Pacific regions.  To serve these partners and customers, Sipera has expanded to open an office in Southeast Asia and multiple offices in EMEA.
• Attaining "In Evaluation" status for Common Criteria Certification, the international standard for IT security products.
• Introducing a new three-tier reseller program with tailored marketing programs and incentives:  http://www.sipera.com/index.php?action=partners,partner_program.
• Completing interoperability with more than 100 makes and models of UC servers and PBXs, IP phones, clients, smartphones and other UC devices.
• Leading a series of webinars presenting case studies and recent UC security research, including a free webinar on UC security and compliance scheduled for May 4:  http://tiny.cc/ucsecuritywebinar.

The company's solutions provide:

• Simple, plug-and-play security and compliance for all real-time UC applications in enterprises and UC service providers supporting 100 to 50,000+ users with the industry-leading UC-Sec appliance and Secure Live Communications (SLiC) mobile UC solution.
• Mission-critical communications security in small, medium and large enterprises in healthcare, education, financial services, retail, government and other vertical segments.  
• Seamless communications privacy and access control that permits enterprises to rapidly migrate to VoIP, video, IM and other UC without risking information leakage or violating privacy laws, monitoring and archiving rules, or other compliance mandates.
• All-in-one real-time UC application layer security, including offloaded encryption, user authentication, threat mitigation and policy enforcement.
• Powerful SIP trunk termination features eliminating the need for complex standalone Session Border Controllers that over-complicate enterprise architectures and create management headaches.

"Sipera Systems is in the midst of a banner period of growth and expansion, as enterprises and service providers worldwide embrace our solutions for migrating securely and simply to Unified Communications," said John Lochow, President and Chief Executive Officer of Sipera.  "Our customers, resellers and integrators all report that our solutions enable UC implementation projects to run more smoothly, expand more rapidly and, as a result, achieve return-on-investment earlier."

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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