Sipera Systems announces that Technology Marketing Corporation has named UC-Sec as a recipient of a 2010 Unified Communications Excellence Award. Sipera UC-Sec appliances offer comprehensive VoIP and UC security that enables enterprises to confidently deploy UC applications over any network, to any device.

"UC-Sec provides our enterprise customers with a plug-and-play platform that secures Unified Communications such as VoIP, video and other collaboration tools without compromising application performance," said Adam Boone, Vice President of Marketing and Product Management at Sipera. "Now enterprises can adopt VoIP and UC, and utilize SIP trunks, without violating information security compliance or increasing the risk of toll fraud, eavesdropping, identity theft and many other common attacks. We're honored that TMC has recognized UC-Sec's functionality with this 2010 Excellence Award, and are working to further innovate in the enterprise UC and smartphone security market."

The Sipera UC-Sec appliance is easily integrated into the enterprise network and is interoperable with all leading brands of UC solutions. UC-Sec enables:

• SIP trunk termination on the enterprise premises, for low-cost telecom with the industry's best protection against toll fraud and intrusion.
• Secure VoIP and UC to any supporting end device, including IP phones, smartphones, tablets, soft-clients and other devices – all within enterprises' control.
• "Borderless UC," enabling an enterprise to extend its communications to employees, partners and customers in any location without violating compliance or increasing security risk. Now teleworkers, distributed call centers and even supply-chain collaboration can be conducted with no special end-point devices or modifications.
• Compliant UC, permitting specific applications to be monitored, recorded and encrypted to meet information security rules and regulations, with no impact on performance.

"Sipera has proven its commitment to excellence while providing solutions in the UC marketplace. We are pleased to grant a 2010 Unified Communications Excellence Award to UC-Sec," said Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. "Congratulations to Sipera on receiving this award and we look forward to future innovations."

Unified Communications Excellence Award winners are published in the October 2010 issue of Unified Communications magazine, www.uc-mag.com. Unified Communications magazine is devoted to educating readers on employing unified communications solutions.