Scaling and securing VoIP

Product Test and Buyer's Guide This newsletter is sponsored by Cisco & Verizon Verizon Business Turns the Tide for Ocean Beauty Seafoods Ocean Beauty Seafoods leveraged Verizon Business strategic solutions to extend secure, centralized Internet access to business units across the country and enable a corporate wide enterprise resource planning (ERP) migration. Click here to learn more today! Product Test and Buyer's Guide, 05/22/07 Review: Scaling and securing VoIP By David Newman VoIP vendors say they deliver scalability and security. And InteropLabs (iLabs) testing mostly proved them right in multivendor settings. But testing also revealed some implementation gotchas in both of those areas, and pinpointed a few missing pieces when it comes to key exchange for securing VoIP traffic. Compare Products with Network World's VoIP and Convergence Buyer's Guide From deployable IP-PBX systems to unified messaging, Network World has detailed information on hundreds of products. Side-by-side comparisons along with objective test and review results make it quick and easy to find the solutions that are right for your enterprise. Click here to find out more. This year’s iLabs VoIP team focused on three areas: • Scaling and prioritizing VoIP traffic over Wi-Fi links; • Thwarting attacks against session initiation protocol (SIP) and real-time protocol (RTP) traffic using intrusion-detection and -prevention systems (IDS/IPSs); and, • Protecting VoIP media traffic using secure RTP (SRTP). For more on this test, please click here. To tap into detailed, customized information about VoIP Security products including session border controllers and SIP-based firewalls, check out the Network World Buyer's Guide: VoIP Security Products.

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Contact the author: Newman is president of Network Test, an independent test lab in Westlake Village, Calif. He can be reached at dnewman@networktest.com. This newsletter is sponsored by Cisco & Verizon Verizon Business Turns the Tide for Ocean Beauty Seafoods Ocean Beauty Seafoods leveraged Verizon Business strategic solutions to extend secure, centralized Internet access to business units across the country and enable a corporate wide enterprise resource planning (ERP) migration. Click here to learn more today! BONUS FEATURE IT PRODUCT RESEARCH AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Get detailed information on thousands of products, conduct side-by-side comparisons and read product test and review results with Network World’s IT Buyer’s Guides. Find the best solution faster than ever with over 100 distinct categories across the security, storage, management, wireless, infrastructure and convergence markets. Click here for details. PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE You've got the technology snapshot of your choice delivered to your inbox each day. Extend your knowledge with a print subscription to the Network World newsweekly, Apply here today. International subscribers, click here. SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES To subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World newsletter, change your e-mail address or contact us, click here. This message was sent to: security.world@gmail.com. Please use this address when modifying your subscription. Advertising information: Write to Associate Publisher Online Susan Cardoza Network World, Inc., 118 Turnpike Road, Southborough, MA 01772 Copyright Network World, Inc., 2007