Protecting data in "motion" has become top of mind for most IT executives as they look to close network security vulnerabilities and protect communications.  Being able to meet regulatory compliance requirements is also driving encryption sales.  Encryption has come a long way as users would pay the encryption penalty of delaying traffic as data passed through encryption devices.  But thanks to faster ASCIS this penalty has been all but eliminated.  Ron Willis, CEO of CipherOptics joins the program to discuss the encryption market.  Enjoy, Nick

Al Baker, US Vice President Product and Service Management and Martin Northend, Director of Portfolio Marketing for Small and Medium enterprise, both from Siemens Communications joined me on the Lippis Report to discuss SIP phones.  Siemens just launched its OpenStage SIP phones which interoperate with BroadSoft and Cilantro Softswitches.  These SIP phones allow Service Providers to offer hosted IP services based upon their existing softswitch investments to the small to medium sized business market.  The phones are sleek with i-pod like control, mobile phone directory services, large screen size and XML development environment.  You can download the Siemens presentation here.  This is the first SIP phone offering that is not linked to an equipment supplier's SIP proxy allowing a degree of freedom we have not seen in the industry thus far.  Enjoy, Nick 

Nick Lippis, of the Lippis Report and Zeus Kerravala, Senior Vice President of The Yankee Group�s Enterprise Research join the Lippis Report podcast to discuss the state of Unified Communications.  This term has received a renaissance with many companies using it to describe their approach to IP telephony applications.  Kerravala and Lippis define unified communications, discuss the problems it solves and it associated benefits to both end user and corporate productivity.