snom recently announced a renewed partnership agreement with Digium (News - Alert), Inc., to offer integrated, SIP-based telephony solutions for the SMB market. snom has signed on to be a Digium/Asterisk Premier Interoperability Partner, a designation which gives the VoIP phone maker broad support for Asterisk (News - Alert) Business Edition telephony features on snom phones. The goal is to provide SMB customers with a tightly integrated, standards-based solution that offers simplified provisioning, as well as the delivery of new capabilities and features.

 

According to Bill Miller (News - Alert), VP of Marketing and Product Management at Digium, the relationship with snom offers Digium the opportunity to reach the growing small business community who are increasingly embracing high-end telephony systems based on Asterisk. Said Miller, “The interoperability between Asterisk Business Edition and snom IP phones ensures flexibility and broad support for Asterisk.”

 

snom’s IP desktop phones and their new snom m3 IP DECT (News - Alert) phone will be combined with Digium’s Asterisk Business Edition, the professional-grade version of Asterisk, to offer SMB customers 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.”