Ingate has entered a partnership agreement with Codima. Ingate and Codima will create a vertical offering to provide SIP-based VoIP pre-assessment and post-deployment tools from Codima Toolbox combined with Ingate Firewall and Ingate SIParator products, to enable successful VoIP installations.

The market for Unified Communications is expanding rapidly and the partnership leverages the need for robust SIP-based VoIP solutions. Organizations today are looking for new opportunities to communicate such as Instant Messaging, presence, conferencing capabilities, the ability to share applications and more. At the same time, they are relying on their business-critical communications systems to perform 24/7. Opening up new ways to communicate cost-efficiently, SIP-based VoIP installations benefit from the innovative technologies developed by Codima and Ingate.

The partnership enables Ingate to ensure VoIP readiness to its customers by having an accurate overview of the network and an in-depth network analysis. The Codima flagship product autoMonitor identifies devices and software installed on a network and draws maps of the topology directly in Microsoft Office Visio in addition to monitoring the network finding the weakest links. With this crucial information available, an Ingate installation offers a new cost-efficient way to ensure that a SIP-based unified communications system is fully functional from the start, avoiding project delays and customer dissatisfaction.

The beginning-to-end solution for managing VoIP networks, Codima Toolbox adds value to the offering. For example, autoVoIP™ Traffic Simulator tests if an existing network can carry the new converged technology and the monitoring and troubleshooting tools ensure call quality in daily operation.

In a SIP trunking scenario, the Ingate Firewall and SIParator assure smooth communication between the service provider and the enterprise IP-PBX by mutually adapting the used SIP flavors (SIP normalization for interoperability). Ingate products utilize a frequently updated Startup Tool with pre-configurations for approved SIP trunking service providers on one side, and for all leading IP-PBXs on the other. The installation of fully secure SIP trunks is thus reduced to a plug-and-play procedure.

The Ingate Firewall or SIParator, installed as the demarcation point of the enterprise toward the Internet, which often is the bandwidth bottleneck, are at an ideal location to provide priority of voice over data. This is performed by the advanced Ingate Quality of Service function, effective both for in- and outbound traffic.