snom and Pingtel Announce Certified End-to-End Enterprise Communications Solution.Partnership Provides a Complete VoIP Telephony Solution to VARs and Enterprise Customers that is Fully Certified and Supported BERLIN & WOBURN, Mass. -- snom technology AG, developer and manufacturer of Voice-over-IP (VoIP) telephones, today announced a strategic partnership with Pingtel Corp., the leading provider of SIP-based Enterprise Communications Systems In telecommunication, a communications system is a collection of individual communications networks, transmission systems, relay stations, tributary stations, and data terminal equipment (DTE) usually capable of interconnection and interoperation to form an integrated whole. (ECS See eComStation. ). Through this partnership, snom and Pingtel will offer customers and VARs a complete, certified, and supported voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone system based completely on the SIP standard. "Our customers benefit from snom's rich feature set, interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. and flexibility," said Michael Knieling, Executive Vice President of Marketing and Sales for snom. "Together snom and Pingtel provide the market with a feature-rich and fully standards-based solution that cannot be matched for quality and value." The fully integrated solution consisting of Pingtel's SIPxchange ECS SIP IP PBX (Internet Protocol Private Branch eXchange) A telephone switch that supports voice over IP (VoIP). IP PBXs convert IP phone calls into traditional circuit-switched TDM connections for the PSTN. and snom's SIP phones A sip phone uses Voice over IP technologies. The phone runs using SIP protocol. It can have many features which a normal phone does not/cannot have. It can support using email like id to make call (easier to remember as compared to names) as well as normal phone number. is pre-packaged, certified and fully supported, providing users with the flexibility and value of open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced combined with management and quality customers require. In addition to full certification, the entire line of snom IP phones (snom 300, snom 320 and snom 360) is managed by the SIPxchange ECS plug-and-play, graphical management system, and Pingtel will offer full support to customers and VARs that deploy the certified snom-Pingtel solution. "Provisioning and managing snom phones becomes a breeze as all configuration is automatically generated, backed-up, and distributed by the SIPxchange IP PBX server," said Martin Steinmann, Senior Vice President of Marketing for Pingtel. "The technical excellence and standards compliance on both ends provides a best-of-breed solution for VARs and customers without compromising usability. Moreover, users can expect to pay 50% less than the cost of other VoIP systems." Pingtel's SIPxchange ECSCothe professional open source IP PBX for LinuxCois a full featured, easy to install and use, enterprise-class SIP PBX (Private Branch eXchange) An inhouse telephone switching system that interconnects telephone extensions to each other as well as to the outside telephone network (PSTN). solution. It is the only product based wholly on the SIP standard and is fully interoperable with SIP phones, gateways, and SIP trunking See port aggregation. services. snom telephones support the full range of enterprise PBX features as well as many advanced capabilities. The combination of snom telephones and the Pingtel SIPxchange IP PBX creates a new highly differentiated solution at a very attractive price. About snom snom technology AG develops and manufactures Voice-over-IP (VoIP) telephones and related equipment based on the IETF See Internet Engineering Task Force. IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force open standard, SIP (Session Initiation Protocol (protocol) Session Initiation Protocol - (SIP) A very simple text-based application-layer control protocol. It creates, modifies, and terminates sessions with one or more participants. Such sessions include Internet telephony and multimedia conferences. It is described in RFC 2543. ). Recognized for its high quality, customizable and cost-effective business solutions, snom is also differentiated by the company's ten-year history in the VoIP industry, and its dedication to high security standards. All of snom's software exists in the firmware A category of memory chips that hold their content without electrical power. Firmware includes flash, ROM, PROM, EPROM and EEPROM technologies. When holding program instructions, firmware can be thought of as "hard software." See flash memory, ROM, PROM, EPROM, EEPROM and FOTA. on the phones - making it easier for users to download updates and new features. snom customers benefit from the interoperability and flexibility that the snom telephones offer, including plug and play integration and universal compatibility with any SIP-based telephony platform. About Pingtel Pingtel is reshaping the communications market by delivering the only 100% SIP-based enterprise class communications platforms that support the features and functionality required by business markets. Pingtel combines the best attributes of open source developmentColow cost, adaptability and flexibilityCowith the reliable solutions and support enterprises require for voice applications. For more information visit www.pingtel.com and www.sipxpbx.org. snom and the snom logo are registered trademarks of snom technology AG. Pingtel and SIPxchange are registered trademarks of Pingtel Corp. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. |
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