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PacStar entered into agreement with General Dynamics

PacStar(TM) announced that it has entered into an agreement with General Dynamics C4 Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, to resell the Sectera(R) vIPer(TM) Universal Secure phone. The vIPer is a secure, end-to-end Voice over IP (VoIP) and PSTN phone system that will replace Secure Telephone Unit (STU) and Secure Terminal Equipment (STE) units currently in use by the Department of Defence, the military and its allies.

“Our customers in the government and military rely on us to provide innovative IP communications solutions that meet their stringent requirements,” said Laura Kubisiak, Vice President of Marketing, PacStar. “The Sectera Universal vIPer phone is a cost effective, reliable replacement for the STU and STE.”

The vIPer phone is currently compatible with VoIP networks implemented using Cisco SCCP (Skinny Call Control Protocol). Built to provide seamless communications with legacy secure phones, the secure vIPer phone is software programmable with extensive memory to easily accommodate future upgrades and functionality.The vIPer phone can be upgraded for PSTN networks and SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) VoIP networks.