Patton (News - Alert) Electronics has proudly snagged the 2012 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award for its IP-communications solution delivered for the logistics and supply-chain management firm, Norbert Dentrassangle (ND), Italy operations. This marks the company’s third Excellence Award and eleventh major industry award for its SmartNode brand of VoIP solutions over the last seven years.

The company offers a wide range of SmartNode solutions – from VoIP gateways to gateway-routers to VoIP AID and ipChannelBank products – all which provide converged-IP voice-and-data network that interconnects numerous ND facilities in the Trezzo, Italy reigion.

“We did not even consider other alternatives, "Alessio Miranda, project manager for IP Phone (News - Alert) Solutions at TECHLAN Reti explained in a statement."We decided on Patton from the very beginning because we already knew that SmartNode is VoIP that works.”

Patton’s signature SmartNode VoIP equipment is held with high regard for its trusted reliability. Techlan's system design ties works to bring together new-generation SIP phones and iPBX systems with traditional analog and ISDN voice gear from several manufacturers, while providing access to WIFI wireless, UMTS GSM, and the local PSTN (Telecom Italia (News - Alert))—all interconnected over ND's corporate MPLS network, the statement explained.

ND’s facilities consist primarily of existing telephony equipment and services, with sites ranging from remote branches of one to eight seats to large headquarters boasting 100 or more employees. Patton was able to directly meet its varying business needs by transitioning costly and complex legacy network architecture into a streamlined all-IP network. Further, Patton’s line of SmartNode VoIP solutions can be scaled from two to 2048 voice and fax-over-IP channels.

“SmartNode equipment is so reliable, compact and flexible to implement that we decided to use only Patton VoIP devices for all our future projects,” Miranda raved in a reflective case study.

“Year after year, SmartNode innovations drive converged-IP technology forward, providing reliable, high-performance VoIP equipment to clients worldwide,” said TMC (News - Alert) CEO, Rich Tehrani.

To learn more about Patton’s award-winning offerings, visit www.patton.com.