Patton Enters High-Capacity, Carrier-Grade VoIP Gateway Market with SmartNode 10200 Series

Feb. 1, 2012 - PRLog -- SmartNode™ VoIP. . .  more than just talk!

GAITHERSBURG, MD: Today at ITEXPO Patton is now taking orders for the new high-capacity SmartNode™ 10200 VoIP media gateway series for carriers and large enterprises, announced today. The newest member of the SmartNode family (http://www.patton.com/smartnode) provides up to 2048 voice or fax calls, 16 to 64 T1/E1s, 1 to 3 DS3s or a STM-1/OC3 trunk with SS7 signaling, and extensive inter-protocol transcoding.*

By adding a high-capacity solution for 512-to-2048 SIP/H.248 VoIP or T.30/T.38 fax calls in a 2U form factor, today's announcement expands Patton's SmartNode portfolio far beyond its former 2-to-120-call range.

Deployed as customer-premise equipment (CPE), carriers can use the SN10200 to deliver high-density IP telephony and classic PSTN voice and fax services concurrently. Deployed as core, edge or peer-interchange equipment, the SN20100 enables carrier to migrate their legacy service networks toward IP-centric architectures.

For large enterprises and call centers, the SN10200 interconnects traditional and iPBX phone systems, to deliver high-volume SIP trunking with sustained performance levels up to 90 completed calls per second (CCPS). By providing transcoding among all voice codecs and signaling protocols, the SN10200 ensures seamless interoperation with all major softswitches.

“The global network is still converging," said Burton A. Patton, Executive Vice President. “Although legacy equipment is aging, it provides reliable service. Traditional PSTNs still generate revenues and profits. Carriers need classic TDM and advanced IP networks to interconnect and interoperate, and our SmartNode 10200 is the industry’s most reliable—and cost-effective—solution.”

The SN10200 delivers superior reliability and system uptime with SS7 link redundancy, dual power-supply support, and field-upgradeable components. Boasting power consumption averaging two-thirds lower than comparable alternatives, the SN10200 lowers operator energy costs.

Burt Patton addressed the future of VoIP and unified communications in his recent   InfoTECH Spotlight interview (http://it.tmcnet.com/magazine/2011/April/).

Patton's SmartNode recently won the INTERNET TELEPHONY 2011 Product of the Year award, maintaining a seven-year winning streak for the VoIP-equipment brand.

In related news, Patton’s CopperLink™ 2174 ultra-high-speed Ethernet Extender is now shipping worldwide, delivering IP/Ethernet connectivity over coax, dry copper, and Cat5 cabling.

*The SmartNode™ 10200 series ships with G.711, G723.1, G.726, and G.729ab. Optional mobile and IP vocoders include AMR, AMR-WB (G.722.2), GSM-FR/GSM-EFR, EVRC/QCELP, G.728, G.729eg, and iLBC.


About Patton
Patton is a multi-national organization that designs, develops, and manufactures electronic communications equipment for network access, connectivity, voice-over-IP, triple play and video surveillance. Deployed throughout the world in carrier, enterprise, and industrial networks, most Patton products are manufactured in the USA. Patton is ISO 9001:2008 certified and markets a catalog of over 1000 products including SmartNode™ VoIP solutions (SIP and H.323) for analog and ISDN telephony; CopperLink™ Ethernet Extenders; Visuality™ mobile-video surveillance, collection, and intelligence distribution solutions, ForeFront™ multi-service access infrastructure solutions for TDM and IP service delivery (T1/E1, G.SHDSL, xDSL, dial-up); OnSIte™ CPE solutions for last-mile/local-loop access (WAN routers, modems, remote access servers, NTUs, CSU/DSUs); TeleMatch™ G.703/G.704, legacy, and audio/video baluns; EtherBITS™ device servers; EnviroNET™ NEMA4-compliant hardened networking equipment, SerialComm™ network-connectivity solutions (interface converters, short-range modems, multiplexers), and SafeGard™ surge protection and optical isolation products. Incorporated in January 1984, Patton Electronics Company has been doing business since January 1984


About SmartNode™ VoIP Solutions
Award-winning SmartNode™ equipment delivers state-of-the art VoIP technology that integrates seamlessly with existing analog POTS and digital ISDN infrastructures. Proven interoperability with all major brands of softswitches and IP-PBXs makes it easy for carriers and enterprises to deploy future-proof VoIP systems quickly and profitably today. Tens of thousands of SmartNode™ products are up and running in enterprise networks and carrier deployments worldwide, including one of Europe’s earliest first-line VoIP services.

The SmartNode™ Unified Communication Agent™ (UCA) provides any-to-any multi-path switching (simultaneous SIP, H.323, ISDN, and POTS calls with routing and conversion between TDM/PSTN and IP/Ethernet networks—plus T.38 and SuperG3 FAX) combined with dial-backup and IP-link redundancy for VoIP and data survivability. The UCA also provides VoIP-over-VPN security with encrypted voice via IPsec with AES/DES strong encryption and automated keying via Internet Key Exchange (IKE), plus SIP Registrar for presence/reachability.

SmartNode™ preserves all the ISDN telephony features that ISDN users depend on and network operators require (AOC, CLIP, CLIR, UD64, overlap dialing, and fax, as well as MSN and DID). Built on the industry’s most interoperable VoIP platform, the SmartNode™ S-DTA supports ISDN, SIP, H.323, and MGCP/IUA signaling. Patton’s SmartWare™ features touchless auto-provisioning, high reliability, and proven interoperability with all the major-brand softswitches and IP-PBXs.

Scaling from 2 to 2048 voice calls, SmartNode™ VoIP gateways, routers, IADs, Session Border Controllers (SBCs) and SmartMedia TDM+VoIP gateways offer every industry-standard interface, including T1/E1, PRI/BRI STM-1/OC3, DS3, , FXS/FXO, V.35/X.21, Ethernet, G.SHDSL, ADSL2+, and more, while Patton’s advanced DownStreamQoS™ technology delivers clear, toll-quality voice on every call. For more information about SmartNode™ equipment, go to www.patton.com/voip.

For more information or a free catalog, contact sales@patton.com

Patton Electronics Company
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Gaithersburg, MD 20879 USA
Tel: (301) 975-1000
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