February 19, 2008
Snom Expands Partnership with ABP Technology
By Anil Sharma, TMCnet Contributing Editor
ABP ( News - Alert) Technology is now a Platinum distributor for snom’s IP Phones. ABP has been a snom distributor for over 5 years and a contributor to snom’s success by increasing sales every year.
ABP Technology is a distributor of VoIP and IP communications products operating through a network of value-added resellers (VARs) and service providers.
Located in Dallas Texas, ABP Technology spans the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central and South America with sales, engineering consultation, training, product provisioning, configuration, fulfillment and tech support.
ABP features a complete portfolio of VoIP solutions with endpoints, network products and software platforms and applications. The distribution agreement is an integral part of snom’s strategy to offer customers open source VoIP solutions throughout the Americas.
ABP Technology provides a sales channel and first line of support for snom’s complete line of VoIP phones, including the 300, 320, 360, 370 and m3 IP DECT ( News - Alert) phone.
“ABP has built a vast network of VARs over the years, providing a competitive advantage for us in the telecommunications market,” said Michael Knieling, CFO and executive vice president of marketing and sales for snom, in a statement. “We are happy to expand our partnership and look forward to working together to bring the most flexible and interoperable solutions to the market.”
“After more than five years of business development work in the Americas we are proud and excited to see that the snom brand is now accepted as a leader in the IP phone space. snom not only delivers premium business IP phones for open standard based IP telephony but also is a thought leader in SIP and Open Standards” says Robert Messer ( News - Alert), President and CEO of ABP Technology.
Messer continued: “This is just the beginning of the boom in IP communications and in less than ten years we expect every desktop phone to be an IP phone with snom as one of the top brands.”
snom technology AG ( News - Alert) develops and manufactures Voice-over-IP (VoIP) telephones and related equipment based on the IETF open standard, SIP (Session Initiation Protocol).
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Anil Sharma is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To see more of his articles, please visit his columnist page. Voice over IP (VoIP) | X | A real-time communications system that converts voice into digital packets containing media and signaling data that travel over networks using Internet Protocol....more |
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) | X | SIP is the real-time communication protocol for VoIP. SIP is a signaling protocol for Internet conferencing, telephony, presence, events notification (emergency calling) and instant messaging.
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Internet Protocol (IP) | X | IP stands for Internet Protocol, a data-networking protocol developed throughout the 1980s. It is the established standard protocol for transmitting and receiving data
in packets over the Internet. I...more |
(source: http://www.tmcnet.com/channels/ip-phones/articles/21020-snom-expands-partnership-with-abp-technology.htm)
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