BlueSocket and Pingtel make interesting bedfellows

Product Test and Buyer's Guide This newsletter is sponsored by Websense Discover, Monitor, and Protect Your Data Is your data secure? Are you in compliance? Is your organization at risk of losing its competitive advantage? Attend this webcast to learn how to discover, monitor, and protect your data and learn what's new with Content Protection Suite v6 from Websense - the only solution to provide Total Content Protection. Product Test and Buyer's Guide, 07/26/07 By Christine Burns Wireless Security vendor Bluesocket and open source IP-PBX maker Pingtel certainly make interesting bedfellows. But that is precisely the point behind Bluesocket’s stated intention to purchase Pingtel for an undisclosed sum. With the acquisition announced earlier this week, Bluesocket picks up the technology to build devices well-suited for midsize companies that want to quickly integrate wired, wireless and voice networks as a means to streamlining overall network infrastructure. Specifically, the company says it will focus on handing off cellular phone calls to Wi-Fi networks and vice versa as a way for businesses to save on cellular costs when end users make wireless calls within corporate campuses. Bluesocket says it will also extend it products to small businesses that want to unify their voice and data networks based on standardized gear. Bluesocket says it will continue support for Pingtel’s open source IP PBX, call-center server and presence-server projects. Optimize Your WAN: Network World Shows You How In this Executive Guide learn how optimization can supercharge your WAN. Click Here We tested the Pingtel SIPxchange platform earlier this year as part of our recent assessment of open source-based IP-PBX systems. In that test, SIPxchange earned top honors due to high marks in both the end point interoperability and architecture categories. In the latter category, engineers from Network World Lab Alliance partner Miercom cited SIPxchange for comprising some of the more common practices found in larger, proprietary systems from the likes of Avaya and Cisco, such as having direct paths for the media streams which both limits the burden on the VoIP system and allows for better scalability and reliability. You can find detailed product information on Bluesocket’s Security Mobility Solutions – as well as competing products from Airmagnet, Aruba, Juniper and Wavelink -- in the Network World Wireless Security Buyer’s Guide.

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