VoIP Gateways

Patton, a leader in business and carrier-class network access, connectivity, VoIP and mobile video-surveillance equipment, has announced a new logistics program in partnership with FedEx that offers lower freight costs, faster delivery, new business opportunities, and other benefits to channel partners and end customers in Europe and worldwide.

Customers who select IPD shipping from Patton’s factory in Gaithersburg, Md., could realize up to a 50 percent reduction in shipping charges compared with FedEx’s International Priority. With IPD, Patton also improves customer cash flow by eliminating advance VAT payments.

Patton’s barcode-enhanced shipping labels open up new business opportunities for its global channel partners by enabling major distributors to enter Patton’s best-selling products into their logistics centers.

The IPD program reduces freight cost for each recipient by consolidating orders destined for the EU into a single shipment into France. Patton, as the Importer of Record, clears the entire shipment through customs and VAT. The separated orders are then dispatched individually throughout the EU – arriving just one or two days after departure from the U.S.

In related news, Patton just launched two new BRI VoIP product lines, offering improved price-performance and expanded feature sets for ISDN VoIP markets.

“The ISDN market demands exceptional service quality,” said Bernhard Fluehmann, Patton's Converged IP product manager, in a statement.

“ISDN users are notoriously picky, yet SmartNode has a strong reputation for high quality among ISDN customers. With our expanded portfolio of BRI VoIP gateways we will satisfy a greater share of ISDN service-provider requirements to meet the true business needs of many more satisfied customers.”

In addition, Patton recently added three new model series to the expanded the SmartNode PRI gateway product line. Patton announced IBM Sametime certification and Microsoft OCS certification for the company’s SmartNode VoIP products earlier this year.

In March, Patton earned six product-of-the-year awards from INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine.

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