Patton Sponsors Cutting-Edge Telco Event in South Africa: VoiceSA9.22.2011 Following the success of the 2010 inaugural event, the VoiceSA conference is back by popular demand. The 2011 event starts today, with support in the form of sponsorship from Patton. VoiceSA is South Africa’s only voice-industry event covering the latest development in business communication solutions and trends in the local telecommunications landscape. “VoiceSA 2010 was an incredible event,” commented Doug Hill, Director of Patton-Inalp Networks for the Northern Europe, Israel and South Africa regions. The conference brought together VoIP market leaders from all over South Africa. With over 250 delegates, the South African VoIP market was represented by the companies that are taking the right steps toward fully integrated IP services. With over 400 registrations for VoiceSA 2011, as a vendor we believe that this where we need to be present to move into the next three year period of incredible growth in the South African VoIP market.” The free one-day conference and networking event has quickly become a popular event amongst the emerging telecoms players in South Africa, and serves as a valuable platform to facilitate open discussion and collaboration around important industry issues. Last year’s event was attended by over 250 of South Africa’s telecoms heavyweights and industry professionals alike, and included presentations from local and international thought leaders on topics ranging from government regulation and fixed mobile convergence to open-source telephony and converged communications. One of the event highlights is the technology showcase which takes place in conjunction with the conference, featuring solutions and products from leading brands and solutions providers. Patton will be featuring their SmartNode™ VoIP solutions for analog and ISDN telephony. VoiceSA 2011 is happening today, 22 September, at the Bytes Conference Centre in Midrand, Johannesburg (South Africa) and will feature presentations from Rapelang Rabana (TelFree), Wayne Speechly (Internet Solutions), Justin Colyn (MTN Business), and many others. The event is free to attend, however delegates are required to register for the event at www.voicesa.co.za. 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 120 voice calls, SmartNode™ VoIP gateways, routers, IADs and Session Border Controllers (SBCs) offer every industry-standard interface, including T1/E1, PRI/BRI, 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. 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; Visuality™ mobile-video surveillance, collection, and intelligence distribution solution, 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); CopperLink™ Ethernet Extenders; EtherBITS device servers; EnviroNET™ NEMA4-compliant hardened networking equipment, and a full range of network-connectivity SerialComm (interface converters, short-range modems, multiplexers, surge protectors). Incorporated in January 1984, Patton Electronics has been doing business for over 26 years. For more information or a free catalog, contact [email protected]. Patton Electronics Company 7622 Rickenbacker Drive Gaithersburg, MD 20879 USA Tel: (301) 975-1000 Fax: (301) 869-9293 Email: [email protected] Web: www.patton.com SmartNode™ Awards
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