Responding to growing adoption of VoIP by its customers, Untangle announced VoIP support for the Untangle Gateway Platform, the world’s first commercial-grade open source solution for blocking spam, spyware, viruses, adware and unwanted content on the network.

To date, security, firewall and Unified Threat Management solutions have faced challenges co-existing alongside VoIP and Asterisk servers, resulting in increased SIP traffic latency. For small-to-medium businesses using VoIP for voice communications, this has often meant choosing between the lesser of two evils - poor voice quality or an unsecured network.

Through its innovative Express Handling Architecture, the Untangle Gateway Platform efficiently identifies and routes SIP and Asterisk sessions directly to their servers while processing all remaining network traffic for unwanted malware.

VoIP support is a standard feature available today as a free download at SourceForge and through Untangle’s channel partners.