Product Review
Snom continues to wow the market with novel devices tailored to specialized business needs. The M500 Pro series is another example, delivering capabilities perfectly suited to small and mid-sized businesses with mobile workforces. Snom’s wireless solution includes a DECT base station and wireless end devices, and in this article, we show you all the benefits it can provide your organization.
Many business sectors have highly mobile workforces: Hospitality, restaurants, healthcare, manufacturing and warehousing are just some areas where employees don’t sit at a desk. Highly mobile employees require a reliable, secure and easy-to-deploy wireless communications solution to interact with each other effectively. This is where Snom’s M500 Pro DECT multicell base station is ideal.
By deploying the M500 DECT base station, you create your own private wireless communications infrastructure to converse with all your coworkers and employees.
The M500 base station offers an indoor range of up to 160 feet and an outdoor range of almost 1,000 feet; a single base station deployed indoors can effectively cover an area of up to 80,000 square feet! If that’s not enough, you can easily expand your coverage by adding and pairing another base station.
The M500 can be provisioned directly with a SIP telephony provider or an on-site or cloud-based IP PBX. A single base station can support up to 48 SIP accounts on as many as 10 registered phones, with eight narrowband or four wideband calls simultaneously. Expanding to two base stations allows you to support 20 registered phones, 16 narrowband calls and eight wideband calls.
The innovative M500 is supported by equally capable end-user wireless devices that complete the M500 Pro DECT wireless family of products, delivering a communications solution that is much more than just a set of wireless phones. Some of the built-in features of the complete solution include the following:
Beyond these native time-saving and productivity features, the handsets also support all features that the IP PBX or telephony provider delivers via the SIP protocol. This ensures consistency is maintained across all devices, especially if the M500 is part of a more extensive telephony system deployment.
The M500 base station supports two DECT wireless telephone models: the M55 handset and the M58 DECT desk phone. The M55 handset is a lightweight, highly portable, ergonomic, cordless telephone that is ideal for workers who are continuously on the move within and around a business’s premises.
It sports a comfortable 2.4” 240×320-pixel color LCD screen, six backlit dual-color LED programmable keys, and an integrated belt clip. Here’s a summary of these key features and some additional handset capabilities:
The M58 desk phone is a smart desk phone that looks somewhat ordinary, but looks can be deceiving: It, too, is wireless and uses the same DECT technology as the handset.
At first, a wireless desk phone may seem counterintuitive, but in truth, it is extremely freeing, delivering the ability to move your workspace to wherever you want it without losing the familiar feel of a desk phone at your fingertips. You only need a single cable to connect it to any power outlet; no Ethernet required.
Some capabilities that are unique to this wireless desk phone include the following:
These two phones share many additional powerful features, including:
The M500 Pro solution is perfect for any small business looking to quickly get up and running with two or three desk phones and handsets. It’s also a scalable solution that grows with your business, so it’s just as good for medium-sized enterprises. The use of the standardized SIP protocol also gives you the flexibility to choose and change your provider whenever you like.
The M500 Pro solution’s features and capabilities set your business up to thrive by letting you focus on the things that matter most… like running your business!
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