Ingate Signs ICS as Distributor

STOCKHOLM and CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Ingate Systems, producer of the world’s first SIP-capable firewalls and SIParators™, and Interlink Communication Systems (ICS), a leading Value-Add Distributor, today announced that Ingate’s mission critical security products are now available through ICS (www.interlinkweb.com).Ingate, a Swedish technology company with a 25 year heritage of communications and security technology development, produces SIP-capable firewalls and SIParators™ (a device that plugs into an existing firewall to seamlessly enable SIP) for enterprises that want the time and money saving benefits of SIP-based realtime communications including presence, instant messaging, VoIP and conferencing.SIP, or Session Initiation Protocol, is the IETF signalling protocol that allows interoperable realtime communications regardless of who is providing the service. With providers including Microsoft, AOL, AT&T, MSN, Yahoo!, Cisco Systems, Pingtel and CommWorks offering or developing SIP-based product and services, it will only be a matter of time before SIP is for realtime communications what HTTP is for the Web.However, SIP is a new protocol, which means that existing firewalls will block SIP media streams, keeping enterprises from the benefits of realtime communications. The Ingate Technology will fix this problem and allow SIP to interoperate with existing installed firewalls offering the capability And at the same time protecting the original investment.“Everyone is talking about enterprise usage of realtime communications, but with concerns about interoperability and security,” said Ingate CEO Olle Westerberg. “SIP is solving the interoperability concern, and Ingate is the solution to the security issue. Companies that want to use interoperable realtime communications can either purchase one of Ingate’s SIP-capable firewalls or preserve their previous firewall investment by purchasing an Ingate SIParator™.”Ingate Systems