snom And Cudatel Partner To Provide Best Of OSS IP Telephony

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snom making partnerships with eqipment makers to provide end to end VoIP IP Telephony solutions to small to medium sized business'. The latest is their partnership with Cudatel,  a wholly owned subsidiary of content security vendor Barracuda Networks Inc. snom is know world over for developing and manufacturing voice over IP (VoIP) phones for enterprise and residential markets.

The partnership paves the way for businesses to deploy snom's portfolio of Linux-based SIP VoIP phones with CudaTel's FreeSwitch based IP PBX and communications appliance, CudaTel Communication Server. FreeSWITCH is a free open source software communications platform for voice and chat-driven products released under the MPL free software license.
snom and Cudatel together have conducted rigorous interoperability and certification testing to ensure the joint solution is fully integrated and deployment ready and that the two companies' gear will integrate seamlessly and ease VoIP deployments.

We are pleased to be working with CudaTel as we continue to partner with the best-in-class technology partners, CudaTel is taking the expertise Barracuda Networks established with its data communications infrastructure product portfolio and bringing this same innovation into open source VoIP with a robust, FreeSWITCH-based platform. Teaming up with CudaTel creates a full, end-to-end VoIP solution for companies of any size built on an open source model, said Dr. Michael Knieling, Executive Vice President of Marketing and Sales for snom Technology AG.

 The CudaTel Communication Server is offered in four models with prices starting at $2,000. The IP PBX are capable of supporting 25 to thousands of VoIP telephones with a range of advanced services. These advanced services include automated handset provisioning and deployment call routing, call recording, call queuing, parking, unified messaging and voice mail, conferencing and conference bridges. The  CudaTel Communication Server is also capable of providing automated attendant services, Active Directory integration and follow-me functionality. CudaTel also offers unlimited 24x7 phone and email support with each CudaTel server and does not require per-user, per-box or per- feature licensing fees.

 CudaTel was built from the ground up to be an innovative and affordable VoIP system and designed to work exclusively with best-of-breed SIP phones like the endpoints offered by snom, Partnering with snom ensures that our CudaTel Communication Server customers will have access to telephones that are easily deployed and provisioned, and that offer a host of capabilities and functions. said Sean Heiney, CudaTel product manager and director of new product initiatives for Barracuda Networks.

 With the new partnership, expect to use  snom's portfolio of SIP-based commercial-grade VoIP phones, including the snom 320, snom 360 and snom 380, as well as the new snom 820 and the snom 870 color touch-screen phone with Cudatel eployments, existing or planned. Also supported are the snom MeetingPoint conferencing phone and the snom m3 IP DECT phone from snom. snom was the first company to provide "zero touch" IP Phone deployment by following the TR-069 standard.
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