Ingate and Dialogic team to enable SIP trunking alongside legacy PBXs

Ingate Systems and Dialogic announced today a partnership to allow enterprises with legacy PBXs and contact centers to add fully-interoperable and secure SIP trunking services alongside their existing PSTN hardware. The joint offering will use a Dialogic Media Gateway along with an Ingate SIPerator or an Ingate Firewall product.

The Ingate products will be deployed at the network edge, sitting between the public IP network and the company LAN, while the Dialogic gateway will connect the company LAN and legacy PBX.

"To date, most SIP trunking providers and resellers have focused on the opportunity to migrate SMB (small- to medium-sized business) class customers from PSTN service in concert with an upgrade to a SIP ready IP-PBX system," Ingate President Steve Johnson said in a prepared statement. "While this opportunity focus remains logical and compelling, there is also a significant opportunity to migrate enterprise-class customers who maintain legacy (non-SIP) PBX and contact center systems."

Ingate announced both the SIPerator and Firewall in a separate release today. The products will handle up to 1,800 concurrent SIP sessions, according to the company. 

For more:
- see the Ingate-Dialogic release here 

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