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VoIP phone maker snom announced this week that its products are now interoperable with Patton Electronics Company’s SIPxNano - a tiny little IP-PBX deigned for small businesses with under 30 extensions.

The SIPxNano is designed to deliver enterprise quality, SIP-based VoIP to small and medium sized businesses. It combines Patton’s NanoServ ultra-compact server technology with a tailored version of Pingtel’s (News - Alert) SIPxchange ECS software, and thus delivers features which one would not normally expect from such a small, low-cost device. These include integrated voice mail and email, auto attendants, interactive voice response, music on hold, 3-digit dialing and Web-based configuration and management.

Meanwhile, snom’s popular IP phones are affordable, easy to install, and deliver a variety of advanced features. The snom 370, its high-end business model, for example, offers support for the G.711, G.729A, G.723.1, G.722, G.726, GSM 6.10 (full rate) codecs, as well as SIP RFC3261. Security is handled through SIPS/SRTP (the IETF’s latest recommendation for standards-based authentication and content security) and TLS. In addition the phone features a large LCD screen; two-line display (2x16 characters); 2 Ethernet ports; 4 SIP registrations (“lines”) and a headset connection.

Together, snom phones with Patton’s SIPxNano IP-PBX (News - Alert) and SmartNode VoIP gateways offer a complete enterprise telephony system for small and medium businesses.

“Patton’s SIPxNano IP-PBX offers a high-end solution for SMBs,” said Michael Knieling, CFO and executive vice president of marketing and sales for snom, in a press release. “Combined with snom’s family of phones, companies can now have a VoIP phone system up and running easily and quickly, with all of the features of a large enterprise solution.”

“Interoperability is the game,” said Joseph Gomez, senior product line manager at Patton. “We are very pleased to have achieved snom certification. It offers added assurance to small businesses that do not have time to play with complex or non-standard systems. Patton’s VoIP equipment has an industry reputation as the most interoperable, and our IP-PBX is 100 percent standard SIP. We knew it would pass.”

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Patrick Barnard is Assignment Editor for TMCnet and a columnist covering the telecom industry. To see more of his articles, please visit Patrick Barnard’s columnist page.