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What do you do if you still need POTS?

If you are wondering what you are going to do when POTS is retired, look no further! Patton Electronics has solutions made to ease the transition with expert staff to assist with design and function. Look to the team of 888VoIP and Patton to help you bridge the technology divide.

The LAN Device Discovery for Patton Cloud

The Patton Cloud is a revolutionary service that accelerates and aids SPs in addressing a multitude of customer needs. Patton’s Cloud/Edge service plans provide users with a centralized interface that enables management, monitoring, security, altering, troubleshooting, analyzing and more. Users can do all of this by leveraging a SmartNode that has been installed on the customer premise. By connecting a SmartNode to the Patton Cloud, users can receive real-time pertinent insight as to what is happening with...

The SmartNode SN500 from Patton

Designed to resolve the complex security, interoperability, and service-quality issues service providers and enterprises face, Patton’s very-low-cost SmartNode™ SN500 eSBC is perfect for delivering high-quality SIP trunk, hosted PBX and UC services for SoHos and SMEs. Right-priced, and providing 4 to 30 concurrent SIP sessions, the SN500 provides network protection and protocol normalization for enterprise-class ALL-IP voice-and-data communications systems. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJYvD3LChaU Subscribe to our mailing list to stay up to date on all of 888VoIP's news and promotions!

Making Microsoft Teams Play Nice with Other Technologies [Case Study]

This is a story about a technology solution that enabled two European industry leaders to play well with Microsoft Teams. In the world of ALL-IP communications, interoperability can be a major challenge. There is an endless number of market players in the IP-telephony field. Most business phone systems involve network elements from multiple vendors that may not naturally work together well, if at all.  This case study involves three vendor technologies that need a little help being friends.The Players

UC for Hotels, Campuses & More with Analog Phones: Part 1

Many organizations support large numbers of analog handsets that still work—and that are an integral part of operations and life-safety processes. As the world shifts under their feet to ALL-IP communications, how can hotels, apartment-buildings, transportation, schools, and other campuses convert to IP or Cloud PBX systems without tossing out their functioning phones?A related question is this:  Why would an organization switch to IP Telephony when it owns a plethora of bought-and-paid-for analog phones—and a traditional PBX—that all work just fine?This post is...

Patton’s Virtual SmartNode Wins 2020 Product of the Year

GAITHERSBURG, MARYLAND: Patton—creator of the Patton Cloud edge-orchestration solution and US manufacturer of world-class network equipment—has won the 2020 Product of the Year Award for its Virtual SmartNode™ (vSN) virtualized network function (VNF) solution.Designed within the network function virtualization (NFV) paradigm, Patton’s vSN is a virtual customer premise equipment (vCPE) platform that boasts limitless scalability. The floating license model makes it easy to increase capacity and add valuable services as an organization grows. Offered by subscription, the vSN incurs only operating expenses (OpEx), making...

Patton Announces the Industry’s Most Flexible High-Density FXS VoIP Gateway

Boasting FXS lines that can reach six miles or more, the SmartNode SN4740 VoIP Gateway integrates up to 128 analog handsets with ALL-IP communications

GAITHERSBURG, MARYLAND: Patton —US manufacturer of world-renowned SmartNode VoIP solutions—announces the first-generation release of the SmartNode SN4740 series of analog high-density VoIP Gateways.Patton’s new multi-port FXS VoIP gateway can IP-enable and interconnect existing Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) private branch exchange (PBX) phone systems or telephony key systems to advanced ALL-IP and unified communications systems.Patton’s new-generation IP-Channel-Bank covers...

Microsoft Unified Communications: Solving for Interoperability

Unified Communications (UC) promises enhanced worker productivity for businesses, with such attractive features as integrated voicemail and email, desktop voice and video calling, colleague presence awareness, and more. Microsoft’s unified communication products include Skype for Business, Office 365, and most recently, Microsoft Teams.Sadly, for many enterprises, the voice part doesn’t work—at least not out-of-the-box.UC SolutionsAlas, Microsoft likes to do Voice-over-IP in their own special way.Specifically, most of the world have implemented the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)—the industry-standard VoIP signaling protocol by encapsulating it within...

Patton’s New Virtual CPE Wins 2019 Communications Solutions Product of the Year

US-based manufacturer of SmartNodeVoIP gateways (ATAs), Routers and eSBCs, and creator of the Patton Cloud edge-orchestration solution—announced today that TMC has honored Patton with the 2019 Communications Solutions Products of the Year Award for its Virtual SmartNode™ (vSN) virtualized enterprise CPE platform.“We are honored to accept this prestigious award,” said  Robert R. Patton (Bobby), CEO. “Patton is proud to sustain the legendary high quality of SmartNode software by introducing this innovative product line. The virtual SmartNode offers a full menu of useful virtual network...