VoIP Gateways

Patton (News - Alert) Electronics Company has received certification of its SmartNode VoIP media gateways for use with Lync Server 2013. As usual, this means the product family has been tested and qualified for interoperability with Lync Server by way of Microsoft’s (News - Alert) Unified Communications Open Interoperability Program (UCOIP).

Patton should be pretty familiar with the UCOIP certification process by now as it has had many of its products receive Lync and Lync Server interoperability certification of one kind or another many times in the past. For example, the company’s VoIP media gateways were certified as interoperable with Lync Communications Server back in 2012.

Just as when Patton’s SmartNode VoIP media gateways were first certified for Lync, this re-qualification is simply a way to ensure enterprise customers and system integrators that SmartNode VoIP equipment will function reliably and seamlessly with Microsoft’s unified communications software.

“When it comes to solving interop challenges, Patton’s history is long and strong, not only with Microsoft and Lync, but in the VoIP industry overall,” said Burton A. Patton, executive vice president of Patton Electronics, in a statement. “SmartNode was the world’s first VoIP gateway that could actually get VoIP working in some extra-tricky ISDN environments.”

Indeed, Patton has achieved interoperability certification from companies other than Microsoft in the past. One recent example of this is the December certification of Patton’s SmartNode VoIP CPE with BroadWorks Device Management from BroadSoft (News - Alert).

Patton’s SmartNode VoIP media gateways eliminate the interoperability obstacles for companies still using legacy PBXs, phone, speakers, pagers and fax equipment — as well as existing FXS/FXO POTS service or ISDN BRI/PRI lines — when implementing a unified communications solution based on Lync. This of course allows organizations to preserve their investments in operational equipment while adding more advanced functions and features, such as voice and data survivability and least-cost call routing.