Snom says its Linux-based VoIP (voice-over-IP) phones support Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, using the SIP (session initiation protocol) standard. The company will demonstrate the capability at conferences this week in Germany and Spain.

Snom says that its phones… offer one-button access to Exchange Server 2007's unified communications services such as voice mail, speech recognition, and voice synthesis of emails, journal entries, contact data, and calendar entries. Additionally, the SIP protocol offers a “complex, protected, and unassailable communications infrastructure,” it claims.

CFO Michael Knieling stated, “snom is setting a new standard in the world of professional office communication with the interconnection of IP phones and the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. This interoperability offers a great deal of advantages to consumers as well as SIP based IP communication.”

Snom will demonstrate Exchange Server compatibility at the VON Europe 2006 show this week in Berlin, and at the SIMO 2006 show Nov. 7-12 in Madrid.

Since shipping the original snom 100 in 2002, Snom has brought out half a dozen Linux-based VoIP phones aimed at business users. The company also offers Linux-based IP-PBXs, and recently spun out 4S Newcon, which sells Apple MiniMacs and iPods pre-installed with Linux-based IP-PBX software.

In addition to Exchange Server 2007, Snom has validated its phones with Asterisk, an open source IP-PBX package.

 
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