snom technology and Patton (News - Alert) Electronics are expanding their existing partnership by offering telephony bundles in North and South America via value-added distributor ABP Technology.
The companies are expected to sell a bundle, consisting of snom’s SIP-based VoIP phones and Patton’s SmartNode Branch eXchange (SNBX) appliance, preinstalled with Windows 7 and 3CX Phone (News - Alert) System software.
"We are happy to extend our partnership with Patton, as we can now offer SMBs a total solution consisting of our standards-based SIP IP phones and their IP-PBX and VoIP gateway for legacy integration," said Mike Storella (News - Alert), COO for North America at snom.
“Our phones already work very well with the 3CX IP-PBX engine,” he said, adding that selling these previously discrete components as a whole just makes buying and installing that much easier, and also customers have one point of contact for service.
The telephony bundle is expected to make simple the buying process as well as the process of decisions and installations. Resellers and integrators just have to decide the number of phones that they need and simultaneous calls that are required, and also whether they are connecting legacy equipment to the IP-PBX (News - Alert) infrastructure.
"Answer those questions and your bundle is ready to be shipped and installation couldn't be easier," said Tyler Delin, product marketing manager at Patton. "The SNBX will ship to your door with Windows 7 and 3CX Phone System already installed."
Once delivered, users have to input the 3CX license key to unlock simultaneous calls and provision snom's IP phones using the 3CX auto-provisioning tool.
The bundle is available through ABP (News - Alert) Technology, a Dallas-based distributor specializing in IP telephony solutions.
In addition to bundling the IP-PBX, IP phones and VoIP gateway, customers also have the option of a bundle that includes VoIP routers, which prioritize voice traffic over data traffic, according to company officials.
Earlier in May, snom technology announced that its 7xx series of desktop IP phones are fully interoperable with Brekeke PBX from Brekeke Software, a developer of SIP software products for IP network communications.
Edited by Rachel Ramsey