field scanning optical microscopy . this article has multiple issues . please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . october 2008 learn how and when to remove this template message this article contains content that is written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . may 2010 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message type stock corporation industry telecommunications founded 1996 headquarters berlin germany area served worldwide key people gernot sagl products voip desktop phones and related oem devices number of employees 55 subsidiaries usa united kingdom france italy taiwan website http www.snom.com snom technology ag sn m 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 . contents 1 history 2 phone features 3 references 4 external links history edit snom was founded in 1996 and is based in berlin germany . in 1996 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 . citation needed 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 . in 2008 snom italy srl was founded 2 in 2009 snom france sarl 3 and in 2010 snom uk ltd. 4 distributors network include companies in emea cis region north america and australia . the company is headed by gernot sagl members of the supervisory board include andr deloch dr. christian stredicke thomas wellhausen . 5 phone features edit 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 adtran netvanta 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 . references edit snom s milestones . snom . retrieved 2009 05 25 . snom italy srl founded . snom . retrieved 2012 12 12 . snom france sarl founded . snom . retrieved 2012 12 12 . snom uk ltd. founded . snom . retrieved 2012 12 12 . snom s imprint . snom . retrieved 2016 09 13 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title snom & oldid 739195909 categories electronics companies of germanyvoip companiestelecommunications companies of germanyhidden categories articles needing additional references from october 2008all articles needing additional referencesarticles with a promotional tone from may 2010all articles with a promotional toneall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from may 2009 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 13 september 2016 at 09 34 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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