The development team for SipFoundry today announced the release of sipXecs 4.2. Release 4.2 is a substantial milestone in that over sip4_21200 items were addressed in the software, provides some substantial new features, and bring increased stability and management of the sipXecs system.

The release of 4.2 provides the following highlights and much more:

XMPP Instant Message Server Integration

Bridged Line Appearance - provides key system style shared line appearance.

User Portal Improvements such as import of personal address list

New Device Support including Polycom 450, 335, 321, 331 phones, Polycom SIP 3.2.2 software, Audiocodes 6.0, Avaya/Nortel 12xx.

Improvements to Call Detail Records

New Music-on-Hold in Freeswitch server, new Personal Music-on-hold

New Freeswitch based Voicemail server

Web collaboration via integration of DIM DIM

New Interoperability - Nortel/Avaya CS1000 SIP integration, support for TLS with sipXecs sipxbridge

Simplification - Discovery mechanism for Polycom and Nortel 12xx phones, improvements to default configuration options

Serviceability improvements - E911 sent to SMS, log configuration changes, SNMP traps of alarms



The user community is encouraged to upgrade your systems to 4.2 and give it a try. This is a stable release with some fantastic features that enhance the market that sipXecs can address. Today, with Bridged Line Appearance, sipXecs can be used in many more installations.

Technology is constantly changing – and specifically when it comes to security. That’s why it’s time to
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And now you can upgrade your firewall affordably! From now until the end of 2010, you can request
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Astaro RED, Astaro Mail Archiving and Astaro Wireless Security will allow organizations to better connect and secure their networks.

Wilmington, MA Astaro Corporation, a leading Unified Threat Management provider, today announced that Astaro is currently developing three new products which will allow organizations to connect their network while remaining confident in its security and ensuring access to information. Also in development is version 8 of the Astaro Security Gateway. This next generation security platform will include a new user interface and support for IPv6.

Astaro recently announced the availability of the Astaro Security Gateway Essential Firewall Edition and the deployment of a new licensing model that opened new ways to deploy Unified Threat Management solutions by allowing customers to select the exact applications (e.g. Network, Mail or Web Security) that will solve their specific security challenges. The release of the three new products in 2010, Astaro RED (Remote Ethernet Device), Astaro Mail Archiving and Astaro Wireless Security, is the next phase in Astaro's application strategy.

Customers will be able to add Astaro RED and Astaro Wireless Security to their current security deployment and integrate the Astaro Mail Archiving service with their mail client to automatically archive emails in the cloud and provide the ability to effortlessly search for archived mail.

"For ten years Astaro has offered Unified Threat Management products that today protect over 100,000 networks worldwide. Our new licensing model makes it possible for organizations of all sizes to tailor their security to fit the organization's exact needs while securing their networks using enterprise-class technology," said Jan Hichert, CEO, Astaro Corporation. "These new offerings will provide organizations with even more options for securing their networks and accessing information."

Astaro RED is the first security solution to offer complete and centrally managed Unified Threat Management for branch offices. It empowers organizations to connect their remote locations to a central location (headquarters) within minutes and without onsite technical expertise.

For more information about Astaro RED watch this short video here: http://www.astaro.com/landingpages/2min-explainer-red Astaro Mail Archiving is a hosted service that is set up within 15 minutes. The service provides unlimited storage and users can find archived email quickly and easily through a convenient Microsoft Outlook plug-in.

For more information about Astaro Mail Archiving watch this short video here: Feature Request Site, a site that was developed by Astaro product management to receive feedback on current and future offerings from Astaro's partner community and customers.

About Astaro Corporation Astaro offers the most complete and easy to use Internet security appliances available. Astaro's award-winning products provide the latest protection with the best total cost of ownership. Software, hardware and virtual appliance offerings provide users the flexibility to meet a wide variety of deployment scenarios. Distributed by a growing worldwide network of more than 2,500 resellers, Astaro products protect over 100,000 networks across 60 countries. Astaro, headquartered in Wilmington, Massachusetts, USA and Karlsruhe, Germany, offers free downloads of its products at www.astaro.com.

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If you need high availability you will receive 50% off the subscription and maintenance on the new HA unit.

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Linxit Systems has partnered with Lenovo. Lenovo strives to be a new world company that makes award-winning PCs for our customers.

They operate as a company uninhibited by walls or organizational structures using worldsourcing to harness the power of innovation across our global team. They design innovative and exciting products and services to meet customers needs.

LinxIT Systems has partnered with Acer. Founded in 1976, Acer ranks among the world's top five branded PC vendors.

In 2000, Acer spun-off its manufacturing operation to focus its resources on developing technologically advanced, user-friendly solutions. The decision to support the sales of its product lines through specific marketing activities that best utilize distribution channels, has allowed Acer to achieve excellent results worldwide.

This is a big release! Major new items include:
1. SIP trunking and remote worker support (far-end and near-end NAT traversal) with support for an optionally redundant media relay for media anchoring
2. New voice conferencing solution based on the FreeSWITCH media server. Thanks to Michal Bielicki and Pawel Pierscionek from VoiceWorks and of course the FreeSWITCH team (Anthony Minessale, Michael Jerries and Brian West). Conferencing solution supports HD Voice and offers dynamic Web based conference controls
3. sipXecs cluster management now allows creating a fully distributed system that is centrally managed
4. New IVR / Auto-attendant also based on the FreeSWITCH media server
5. Support for 64 bit CPU architectures for both Interl/AMD as well as PPC
6. A new integrated reporting solution based on Jasper reports
7. Source routing that allows call routing based on where the call originates (i.e. in a branch office)
8. Lot's of updated phone and gateway profiles with plug & play management (Linksys, Cisco (thanks to Sen Heng), Grandstream, Aastra, Polycom, Audiocodes, and others)
9. Improved operations including certificate management, log and snapshot management, patch and upgrade management, DNS/DHCP configuration assistance, backup/restore to FTP, time and DST management
10. Bulk provisioning of Counterpath Bria Professional phone
11. Click-to-call from the user portal

Astaro 7.4 Defeats UltraSurf. Competitors like SonicWall have been unable to manage popular SSL tunneling programs like Ultrasurf--portable, adaptive software applications which are used to bypass web security policies. Astaro's Web Security engine has been enhanced to block programs which are used to evade security policies by abusing HTTPS, a common port used for secure web surfing. Scanning HTTPS provides the ability to deny such applications and ensure that network policy will remain intact. Blocking these applications also stops malware that can infect the network via the encrypted protocol, which gives many vendors problems. Read more at Astaro's website

We are partnering with NETGEAR to provide our customer with high-performance business-class switches, wireless, security and software products that are designed for a variety of environments, providing wired and wireless connectivity within remote and branch offices, telecommuters and the remote mobile workforce. Their complete line of award-winning, value-based networking products includes everything from switches at the core of the network to routers at the edge, enabling users to share Internet access, peripherals, files, digital multimedia content and media-rich applications among multiple computers and other Internet-enabled devices

Big news from Fortinet. From now until March 31, 2009 they are offering 5% off the FortiGate-30B, $350 off the FortiGate-224B, and unbelievable saving on the FortiMail-400. Contact us for more information info@linxitsystems.com

Not sure if Astaro is right for your network environment? Give it a try! It's now easier than ever before to test-drive an Astaro appliance. Simply select your Astaro product and request a hardware appliance. Each appliance is available as a full version for 30 days with full technical support. You pay nothing - not even shipping. Contact us for more information info@linxitsystems.com