Last month Alcatel-Lucent launched a new secure VoIP solution. The new secure VoIP technology, is designed to protect medium and large sized firms from attacks on IP networks, whilst maintaining the quality of service.

The new offering from Alcatel-Lucent combines their firewall technology – VPN Firewall Brick – with their telephony platform.

The new secure VoIP solution boasts firewall technology developed by Bell Labs and was originally created to safeguard the US Government’s classified networks.

With the vulnerabilities posed to VoIP networks growing and that fact that the majority of VoIP networks are deployed by communications teams and not an experienced IT teams, the need to ensure that communication solutions are secure by default is becoming more necessary. VoIP can really benefit a business by reducing communication costs, but it has to be secure in order to really be a truly profitable investment.

The Alcatel-Lucent VoIP solution works by dynamically pin-holing, which basically means that only once a call has been set up, is it assigned a port. Traditional firewall solutions are not VoIP aware and therefore, several ports are often open during the call, threatening the security of both voice and data.

This new and exciting technology from Alcatel-Lucent will ensure that businesses can use VoIP, safe in the knowledge that their business is protected, at the same time as saving them money.