PATTON announces that the SmartNode 5400 Enterprise Session Border Router claimed INTERNET TELEPHONY Product of the Year for 2010, maintaining a six-year winning streak for the brand.

Swiss-engineered and US-manufactured, Patton’s powerful session border controller provides secure connectivity between iPBX systems and Internet Telephony Service Provider with any-to-any SIP and H.323 protocol mediation.

Installed on customer premises, the SN5400 ESBR resolves the security, interoperability, and WAN optimization challenges businesses face when implementing SIP trunking solutions.

By transcoding all industry-standard voice CODECs, the SN5400 optimizes WAN utilization while ensuring toll-quality voice over the corporate LAN. WAN optimization accelerates performance of WAN applications throughout the enterprise, including file downloads, video-conferencing, cloud-based services.

Patton’s SBC lowers the total cost of implementing SIP-trunking by including rich-featured IP routing, VoIP-VPN security and encryption, voice-and-data survivability, least-cost call routing, and QoS—all without added licensing or support fees.

For in-depth analysis of SIP trunking, VoIP-VPN security, and VoIP QoS, visit Patton’s white-paper library.