Bring your own device (BYOD) policies have become the norm for many businesses. Enterprises allow and encourage employees to use their own smartphones to complete their voice communications both inside and outside the office. This may be convenient for some, but for others it can be a hassle, and many businesses try to supplement cell coverage with SIP-based desktop phones that afford employees both reliability and coverage that can span long distances from their base stations.

To further advance the SIP crowd, snom has released its new cordless M65 IP DECT (News - Alert) phone that can provide wireless device coverage across several office floors and sync with other similar handsets through shared base station communication. The M65 attaches to the new M700 base station that provides a long distance signal for users, so they can walk around their offices, no matter how large, and expect to continue to receive signal. Tom Ostrander, the director of North American channal sales for snom, spoke in the official company announcement about the two products and their capabilities.

"Our M65 DECT phone and M700 base station represents a new generation of feature-rich mobility for business users," Ostrander said. "These new products offer expanded range, and more features and flexibility for administrators to easily increase the number of users while maintaining performance."

While the phone itself is able to provide users with features such as presence and paging, it is the M700 that allows the phone to continue to be active and receive a signal. A multi-cell M700 base station can support up to 200 handsets, 40 single-cell M700 base stations, and 100 repeaters in a single installation. The base stations are able to hand off signals from one to another as users move their handsets throughout space, so it is not just that one handset can provide a long-range signal, it is that multiple stations can work together to make entire office buildings capable of supporting the work of many people.

Alongside growth specifically with unified communications and VoIP technologies, TMC (News - Alert) reported earlier this year that SIP trunking rose 50 percent in 2013 from the previous year, and it is expected to continue to grow at a health pace throughout this year as well. Powerful numbers driving such technologies make it clear that businesses are not willing to allow cellular coverage to take over for the functionality of desktop phones. What snom provides here with its newest phone and base station is the ability for employees to be mobile and expect to have voice coverage throughout their businesses' complexes. This is the same goal as cellular service providers attempt to achieve, but the addition of presence, paging, and other features allows such phones to stand out as unique and worth having among everything else that is available.