UM Labs announce the release of the RC-2100

UM Labs is pleased to announce the release of the RC-2100 SIP Security Controller. The RC-2100 is designed to provide security for any SIP based VoIP network and offers specific features to protect SIP Trunks and remote VoIP users.

The RC-2100 includes a number of innovative features including flexible SIP authentication and encryption for both SIP signaling and RTP media. Encrypting signaling and media protects against many of the known VoIP specific security threats and safeguards call integrity and confidentiality. Both signaling and media encryption are standards based ensuring interoperability with phones and PBXs that implement the recognised standards. The SRTP media encryption offers a choice of two key exchange options, the widely implemented SDES and Phil Zimmermann's ZRTP. The RC-2100 is the first SIP security gateway to implement ZRTP which offers a higher level of security assurance than other key exchange mechanisms.

Too many VoIP networks are built and operated on an outdated security model that separates voice and data and provides no external IP connections. This model sacrifices many of the benefits that VoIP can deliver, including closer integration of voice and data applications, the provision of a standard service level to all users and greater flexibility.

The range of SIP Security controllers from UM Labs solves this problem by enabling VoIP networks to adopt a new security model, one which allows closer integration of voice and data applications and enables external connections to SIP trunks, remotes users and users in other Internet domains without the risk of exposing either the voice or data networks to elevated risk.