Snom, Digium Enter Strategic Partnership

snom technology, a developer and manufacturer of Voice-over-IP (VoIP) telephones, and Digium, the Asterisk company,  announced their renewed partnership agreement to offer integrated, SIP-based telephony solutions for small and medium-sized businesses.

snom has signed on as a Digium/Asterisk Premier Interoperability Partner, which will give broad support for Asterisk Business Edition telephony features on snom phones. SMB customers will receive a tightly integrated, standards-based solution with simplified provisioning, and the delivery of new capabilities and features.

"By partnering with innovative companies like snom we can offer the business community more options and features when building high-end telephony systems based on Asterisk," said Bill Miller, VP of Marketing and Product Management. "The interoperability between Asterisk Business Edition and snom IP phones ensures flexibility and broad support for Asterisk.  We look forward to furthering our reach in the marketplace through this partnership."

snom's IP desktop  phones and the new snom m3 IP DECT phone will be combined with Digium's Asterisk Business Edition, the professional-grade version of Asterisk. Through a combination of the snom and Digium offerings, SMB customers will have access to advanced telephony solutions which are more affordable compared to proprietary systems.  Additionally, these new offerings will give customers the control, rapid feature development and deployment, and rich feature base that the Asterisk community and its partners provide.

"Digium's Asterisk Business Edition offers a high-end solution for SMBs," said Michael Knieling, CFO and executive vice president of marketing and sales for snom. "Combined with snom's family of phones, companies can now have a VoIP phone system that offers all of the high-end features of an enterprise solution."

All snom VoIP telephones, including the 300, 320, 360 and 370, are highly configurable and easy to manage through the keypad-cursor, dedicated function keys and menus, or Web browser, and offer user-friendly features like full-programmable keys and downloadable
ringtones. snom phones offer a complete implementation of the IETF's latest
recommendations for standards-based authentication and content security (SIP(s)/sRTP). Their new IP DECT, the snom m3, is the company's cordless offering.  The snom m3 provides an optimal VoIP communication system for the enterprise, SMB or home office.