Snom is shipping a new high-end model in its line of Linux-powered VoIP (voice-over-IP) phones. The Snom 360 is described as a secure, SIP-based business phone with excellent audio quality, programmability, and ease of use, thanks to hardware buttons for critical audio and call functions.

The snom 360 has a business-like appearance

Like the inexpensive 190 model released last fall, the 360 supports SRTP (secure real-time transport protocol) and SIPS (SIP secure), which snom says are the standards currently recommended by the IETF (Internet engineering task force) for protection against eavesdropping and data theft.

Like Snom's “high-end affordable” 220, also released last fall, the 360 supports advanced features oriented toward business users, such as hold, blind or attended transfer, music-on-hold support, divert, call intrusion, conferencing, call parking and pick-up, call completion, and more.

The 360 is based on SIP (session initiation protocol, RFC3261), an emerging standard supported by a large number of VoIP hardware and software vendors.

Additional features include:

• Dedicated keys for key audio and call control functions
• Context-sensitive menus
• Customized ringtones, downloadable from the Web
• 12 programmable keys, expandable to 60 with add-on keypads
• Busy lamp LEDs light when colleages' phones are busy
• Backlit, adjustable, 128×64 pixel graphical display
• Web server provides configuration and control, call features, and help
• Speakerphone
• Built-in 2-port Ethernet switch
• PoE-compatible
• Headset connection
• STUN, ENUM, NAT, UPnP, ICE
• Compression: G.723.1 and others
• International and Asian language support

Availability

The Snom 360 is shipping now, with pricing available from Snom. Snom will demonstrate the device at the VON VoIP converence, March 7-10 in San Jose, and at CeBIT 2005, March 10-16 in Hanover, Germany.

In addition to phones, Snom also markets SIP-based VoIP network software, including a proxy/registrar for administering user and registration data, a media server for media stream processing in VoIP environments (e.g. voicemail, conference calls, etc.), and a NAT filter for connecting terminals on private networks to an existing VoIP infrastructure.

For more details about Snom's Linux-based VoIP phones, be sure to read our complete Snom 220 device profile.

 
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