Snom, developers of SIP endpoints and VoIP products made two large announcements this week, proving that the company is accelerating it’s growth in the SIP endpoint space. First, on April 21st, Snom announced that its entire SIP endpoint product suite will be available on the GSA (General Services Administration) contract, making the product line available for purchase by US government agencies, or GSA buyers.
GSA buyers can now easily incorporate snom’s unique value of advanced security features, interoperability on many platforms, and industry leading IPv6 capability with the snom 820 VoIP phone and the broadly used snom3xx series. Besides the highly functional SIP desk phones, the company has the snom m3 DECT mobility phone and the innovative snom MeetingPoint wideband SIP conference phone. For more advanced communications, snom phones can support unified communications solutions such as Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007 R2. snom’s SIP phones provide significant savings to help stretch the federal budget; creating viable remote worker options with VPN while operating with reduced costs as the most energy efficient, green VoIP phones. (Snom Press Release) In other Snom news this week, the company received the TMC 2008 Product Of The Year Award for its Snom OCS Edition product.“The snom OCS Edition provides snom VoIP phone users with a seamless unified communications experience enabling them to leverage the full capabilities of Microsoft® OCS productivity enhancing features from their desktop phone,” said Michael Knieling, snom’s Executive Vice President of Marketing. “We are honored to be recognized by TMC® and Unified Communications magazine for our achievements in unified communications innovations with the snom OCS Edition.” (Snom Press Release) The SIP endpoint market is becoming highly contested, and is expected to continue growth in 2009. New feature sets, lower prices, and increased potential for interoperability are the expected “points of competition” for the market in the second half of 2009.
