snom releases UPNP compliant VoIP phones

snom technology breaks the NAT barrier for IP phones and allows low cost deployment by service providers to SOHO and residential users worlwide.

(PRWEB) January 23, 2003

Berlin, January 22, 2003

snom technology AG announces that all of their family of SIP based voice over IP phones now support UPnP.

snom VoIP phones when used with UPnP enabled routers, will automatically determine its public IP address and autoconfigure port forwarding. This lets the snom phones register with a service provider and makes the phone accessible for incoming calls from the public Internet. This new feature of snom’s IP phones combined with the increasing number of UPnP supporting routers brings “Plug and Play” to VoIP service providers and virtually opens residential and small office markets worldwide to VoIP deployment. UPnP is another fundamental step in towards enabling VoIP an as an ubiquitous option to conventional telephony.

“The NAT (network address translation) barrier was the biggest hurdle ISPs and emerging IP telephony carriers had to struggle with when acquiring new customers and now is eliminated for the market where low cost and minimum service requirements were the most critical elements.” Nicolas Pohland Executive Director of snom technology AG

Microsoft Messenger is using UPnP technology in the same way which allows to mix and match SIP based Microsoft Messenger and snom phones on a private network with all devices having access to the public Internet.

snom technology offers both UPnP and STUN, making snom’s voice over IP phones very well suited for the home market and branch office deployments . Customers with DSL connectivity may now easily upgrade to voice over IP telephony in mature markets like such as; Japan, Korea, Germany, or United States of America as well as emerging markets like; China or India may use this technology to leverage their existing IPv4 networks for carrying voice over IP traffic.

In addition to resolving the NAT barrier snom technology has also created the SMDS (snom mass deployment system) which minimizes service providers deployment costs and allows to easily build a web provisioning system that connect to the providers billing application to fully automate IP phone deployment.

For further information contact info@snom.de or visit our homepage to see one of our phones with UPnP http://www.snomag.de/snom200_en.php

About Universal Plug and Play:

Consumer interest in home networking is increasing as PCs, information appliances and the Internet play a larger role in day-to-day activities such as entertainment, communication, education and shopping. Linksys is among more than 330 companies leading the development of UPnP, which will make connecting multiple devices easier by building on existing Internet standards and technologies. UPnP is network-media-independent and encompasses all types of networked and traditional peripheral devices, including PCs, home entertainment systems, new smart appliances, home automation systems, networked peripherals and Web-based services.

The UPnP Forum was formed in October 1999 to help define interconnectivity standards to simplify the networking of intelligent devices. The forum is achieving this goal by defining and publishing UPnP device and service control protocols. Visit http://upnp.org/ or http://www.upnp.com for more information.

About snom technology AG:

snom is a recognised technology leader in the area of VoIP phones, with a particular focus on SIP. Founded in 1996 and based in Berlin, the company has constantly pursued a commitment to innovation, open standards and SIP. snom is a customer-oriented company producing state of the art, affordable VoIP phones with a high cost-performance ratio and a range of practical SIP applications for business.

snom technology AG

Pascalstraße 10

10587 Berlin

Deutschland

Tel.: +49 (0) 30 398 330

For further information in the US please contact ABP International, Inc. at 972-745-1221 or visit http://www.abptech.com