VoIP Gateways

It's been a busy year so far for Patton (News - Alert) Electronics. Since January, for example, the company best known for its SmartNode VoIP equipment has released two fiber-optic SmartNode VoIP gateway router Integrated Access Devices (IADs) and an office-in-a-box joint solution with 3CX, Grandstream, Vitelity and ABP (News - Alert).

Now, Patton is keeping the momentum going with the launch of a new line of customer-premise enterprise session border routers (ESBRs) aimed at small-to-medium enterprises and carrier-providers. Put simply, these SmartNode ESBRs offer the interoperability, security and survivability businesses and service providers need when connecting an IP phone system to a service provider network.

On the enterprise side, this new line essentially amounts to a cost-effective session border controller (SBC) for use with SIP trunking, unified communications and IP telephony, while ensuring compatibility with all in-house systems.

Carrier and service providers, meanwhile, are offered a consistent private-to-public network interface with a number of convenient features, such as touchless auto-provisioning, set and forget reliability, and remote management. Of course, SmartNode ESBRs also include proven interoperability with nearly every SIP-based product on the market.

Best of all, enterprises are offered significant cost savings without sacrificing functionality, but rather scale. Indeed, while most carrier-grade SBCs cost between $15,000 and $150,000 and handle thousands of calls, Patton's SN5480 ESBR and SN5490 ESB IAD support between 32 and 192 SIP-to-SIP calls for as little as $500.

Meanwhile, the lower-end SN5200 ESBR goes even lower to provide between four and 32 sessions for under $500.

“Why buy a rocket launcher to swat a fly?” asked Tyler Delin, product manager at Patton. “SmartNode ESBRs are right-sized tools. They address the common challenges businesses and carriers face when setting up IP telephony. And with SmartNode quality built in… they never stop working.”

While Patton's new ESBR line does away with carrier-grade features unnecessary for smaller systems, it still offers essential features such as NAT and extended ACL security with AES/DES encryption, SIP normalization, CODEC transcoding with QoS traffic-shaping and more.