Dr. Ram Dantu's VoIP research has been named one of the ten cutting- edge network research projects in this article in NetworkWorld published in June 2006.

The article refers to a collaborative research grant from the National Science Foundation which was awarded in March 2006 for a three year period. Dr. Dantu is the PI for "A Testbed for Research and Development of Secure IP Multimedia Communication Services," along with other researchers from Purdue University, Columbia University, and University of California at Davis. UNT will receive $315,000 of this $600,000 research grant.