SmartNode Scores Eighth VoIP Award in Patton's Five-Year Winning Streak

SmartNode Scores Eighth VoIP Award in Patton’s Five-Year Winning Streak

Posted by admin on April 21st, 2010

(April 13, 2010) GAITHERSBURG, Md., BUSINESS WIRE –

Patton’the leader in business and carrier-class VoIP, network access, connectivity, and video surveillance equipment’announced today the SmartNode’ 4400 IpChannelBank’ won ’2009 Product of the Year’ from TMC’s INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine.

Converting up to 32 traditional analog phone or fax calls to Voice-over-IP, Patton’s low-cost IpChannelBank reduces overall CPE cost by eliminating multiple devices on the customer premise. The SN4400 combines VoIP gateway, WAN access, and advanced routing functions with full QoS management and Patton’s unique DownstreamQoS^TM in a standalone form factor.

‘INTERNET TELEPHONY is proud to present Patton’s SmartNode’ 4400 IpChannelBank’ with the 2009 Product of the Year Award,’ said Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. “Patton has a longstanding track record of innovation with proven quality and excellence that addresses real needs in the marketplace. We expect to see a continuous stream of innovative technology solutions from Patton.’

Made in the USA at Patton’s Gaithersburg, Maryland facility, SmartNode’ equipment blends high-precision Swiss engineering with high-quality American manufacturing.

Prior SmartNode’ awards include 2009 Excellence Award (SmartNode’ 4638), 2008 Product of the Year (SmartNode’ 4961High Precision Multi-PRI VoIP IAD), 2007 Unified Communications Product of the Year (SmartNode’ 4650), 2007 Product of the Year (SmartNode S-DTA), 2007 Excellence Award (SmartNode’ 4562 Voice-VPN Router), 2006 Product of the Year (SmartNode’ 4960 PRI VoIP IAD), and 2005 Product of the Year (SmartNode’ 4630 BRI Gateway).

In addition to such formal awards, SmartNode is amassing community-based credentials. According to a survey on windowspbx.blogspot.com, Windows phone system administrators recently voted SmartNode the ‘most recommended’ SIP PSTN gateway by a substantial margin.

Watch for Patton’s soon-to-be-released SN5400 Session Border Controller (SBC), featuring a voice transcoder that converts low-bandwidth ITSP CODECs to high-bandwidth CODECs within the enterprise LAN.

Also in the works is a VoIP CPE with an integrated EFM interface that bonds multiple copper pairs into a single high-speed, long-reach broadband access link.

SmartNode products will showcase during ABP’s IPSizzles conference including hands-on training workshops for registered resellers. The tour begins in Santo Domingo (5 May), then covers eight US cities before reaching Santiago and Lima (16 September). Register here’

For more information or a free catalog, contact sales@patton.com.

Contacts:

Patton Electronics Co.
Chris Christner
Director,
Marketing Communications
301-975-1000 x109
cchris@patton.com