| Type | Private company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 1996 |
| Headquarters | Berlin, Germany |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Key people | Dr. Christian Stredicke, Dr. Michael Knieling, Alexander Khan |
| Products | VoIP telephone handsets. |
| Website | http://www.snom.com/ |
snom Technology AG is a German company which manufactures Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephones, based on the IETF standard Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). snom's products are targeted at the small- to medium-sized business sector, home offices, Internet service providers, carriers, and original equipment manufacturers.
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snom was founded in 1996 and is based in Berlin, Germany. In 1999, snom commenced production of VoIP telephones with the introduction of the snom 100 model.[1] It was initially based on the H.323 protocol, but gained SIP support the following year. In 2000, the company saw the opportunity to make interoperable components for enterprise communication systems. Instead of selling one telephony platform solution, the company would sell VoIP phones that are compatible across standards-based platforms from different vendors. This became possible with the introduction of the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP).
In 2001, snom started a joint venture in Bangalore, India. After some attempts to develop parts of the product in India, this office today focus on sales. In order to address American markets, snom opened an office in North Andover, Massachusetts in 2006.
The company's executive team includes executive directors Dr. Christian Stredicke, Dr. Michael Knieling and Alexander Khan. Members of the Supervisory Board include Prof. Harald Melcher, Michael Grote and Christian-Alexander Vry.
All of snom's software exists in the firmware of its phones, and VoIP telephones support all common standards, as well as the latest technologies for traversal of network address translators (NAT), telephone number mapping (ENUM), and virtual private networks (VPN).
All snom phones are compatible with SIP-based telephone systems and system components, including open source platforms such as Asterisk, SER, sipXecs, and IP-PBX systems offered by companies such as Broadsoft, Epygi (Quadro IP PBX), MetaSwitch, Pandora (Worksmart), Objectworld (UC Server), pbxnsip, Sylantro, and many more.
snom's phones include security features based on the two VoIP security standards sips (RFC 5246) and SRTP (RFC 3711). Some devices also support virtual private networking and wireless encryption (WEP/WPA).
The snom OCS Edition (snom Open Communication Solution Edition) combines the advantages of the open IP telephony standard SIP with the integration into Microsoft's Office Communication Server 2007 and the complete Unified Communications solution. snom phones are the first and only open-standard SIP phones with native Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 integration.