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: concentrates more on user-level features than on security. These products would also not go through the same amount of rigour in terms of testing for security,” says Shenoy.
Several UC solutions are available in the market to maintain the low risks of breach of UC security. Some of these include IP PBX solutions from Cisco.
D-Link offers UC components like unified messaging, audio conferencing and video telephony.
Some of the technological tools used to manage UC security include VLANs to separate voice and data traffic, strong authentication and encryption, secure Wi-Fi access points, voice-aware firewalls, etc. Cisco offers a comprehensive systems approach to UC security by protecting all levels of UC system—infrastructure, call management, endpoints, and applications. Some areas of UC like both audio and video conferencing, IP telephony, instant messaging and unified messaging are growing fast. UC is a high interest area but actual deployments are low.
In addition, the UC market is rising high, as the cost of setting up an infrastructure for an organisation is high and the prices of commercial real estate are going up.
Aniket Dongre, analyst, IDC India, says that the Indian UC market was estimated at around $400 million in 2007 with an expected growth rate of 25% for the next five years (2008-2012). The worldwide unified components market would grow from $17.4 billion in 2007 to $24.6 billion by 2012....
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