By Doug Mohney, on November 7th, 2011
Snom technology AG has announced/introduced its new line of business VoIP phones to the United States. First shown at Metaswitch Forum last month, the snom 7xx series is designed for both small and mid-sized businesses requiring “an enterprise-class desktop phone on an SMB budget.”
Two phones have been introduced, the snom 720 and snom 760. The [...]
By Doug Mohney, on October 17th, 2011
Snom has signed a distribution deal with BT’s IT hardware, software, and services business, BT Business Direct. The deal will allow BT’s business customers to purchase snom’s “extensive range” of products, including IP phones and IP PBX solutions (!), directly through the BT Business Direct online store.
BT customers will be able to get an exclusive [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 2nd, 2011
Miami, Florida – Here at ITEXPO, snom (www.snom.com) has officially rolled out the m9 DECT phone. The m9 supports four concurrent calls and the ability to interconnect nine handsets at once.
Targeted at the SMB market, the m9 uses DECT to provide cordless mobility in an office. DECT is increasing in popularity because it operates on a [...]
By Doug Mohney, on October 6th, 2010
Los Angeles – snom technologies (www.snom.com) has qualified one phone to work with Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 R2 and Microsoft Linc 2010, is rolling out a software-based PBX package for SMBs, and will be coming out with a cordless DECT phone supporting G.722 in the near future.
The snom 300 is cited as the [...]
By Doug Mohney, on June 3rd, 2010
Snom technologies AG (www.snom.com) has launched the snom 821, a new IP phone that incorporates a gigabit Ethernet switch.
The snom 821 is expected to be fully available in the U.S. by the end of the second quarter – which would mean by the end of June. Like the snom 870 line, the 821 is available in [...]
By Doug Mohney, on October 20th, 2009
Glendale AZ & Washington DC – A few examples of the many, many G.722/HD voice capable phones available off-the-shelf today. As noted previously, one had to look carefully to find a non-G.722 phone.
Cisco SPA 5xx IP phone line
Cisco’s SPA5xx line of SMB IP phones all have G.722 built-in. You’ll note the range of options from [...]
By Doug Mohney, on October 15th, 2009
Glendale, AZ – Walking the exhibit floor, it was difficult to find a handset that didn’t have HD voice embedded in it. Well-known names such as Cisco, Panasonic, Polycom, and snom, as well as newcomers Aksys Networks and Yealink all had G.722 handsets available for viewing.
Cisco’s line of SPA5xx IP phones — including a $130 4 [...]
By Doug Mohney, on September 16th, 2009
This is a (laborously cut and paste) summary of the afternoon “tweets” posted from the HD Communications Summit on September 15; the morning will be posted later (hopefully after I figure out an easier way to process the morning Twitter-ing).
Chris Fine, VP Goldman Sachs
Lunch break over; Chris Fine of Goldman Sachs up to talk about HD [...]
By Doug Mohney, on August 26th, 2009
Enterprise: Ready
Consumer: Coming
SMB: A few
Mobile: Waiting
Vendors discussed/cited: ADTRAN, AudioCodes, Avaya, Cisco, Gigaset (Siemens), ooma, Polycom, snom
Enterprise: Ready
You don’t have to try very hard to find G.722 support for enterprise-grade IP phones. All of the usual suspects have G.722 codecs in one or more of their handset lines.
Avaya says all of its handsets already support G.722 while [...]
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