{"id":310,"date":"2017-10-17T21:09:14","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T21:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.10.1.214\/?p=310"},"modified":"2026-11-04T21:09:30","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T21:09:30","slug":"we-were-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.patton.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/17\/we-were-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"We Were WRONG!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OK so the ATA is NOT dead. We admit it. Still there&#8217;s a diff between a dumb analog telephone adapter&nbsp;and a smart one. This one is smart&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.patton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/sn100-300x155-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-311\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><center>SmartNode 100<br> FXS Analog Telephone Adapter<\/center><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sporting such intelligent features as call waiting, call transfer, call forward as busy forward, non-answer forward, unconditional forward, do-not-disturb (DND) support, and 3-way conferencing, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patton.com\/newsbc\/index.asp?s=blog\">SN100<\/a> is no \u2018dumb ATA\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"238\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.patton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/bret.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-312\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><center>Bret Patton<\/center><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCustomers have been asking us for a basic low-cost VoIP gateway,\u201d said Bret Patton, Product Manager. \u201cAnd we listened. The SN100 ATA is our answer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The little box is so small you can easily place this adapter just about anywhere. &#8220;As it turns out, the VoIP market has remained robust and customer demand for ATAs is still quite strong,\u201d Bret added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&gt;&gt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patton.com\/press\/Tiny-New-Low-Cost-ATA-Rounds-out-Pattons-FXS-VoIP-Product-Line\/index.asp?s=blog\">Read the full story&#8230;<\/a><strong>What do you think?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Is the ATA\u00a0 market dead or alive?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When and why would you use an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patton.com\/newsbc\/index.asp?s=blog\">ATA<\/a> instead of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patton.com\/info\/Who-Needs-an-Enterprise-Session-Border-Controller\/index.asp?s=blog\">session border controller<\/a>?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Add your thoughts<\/strong>&nbsp;in the comments below&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK so the ATA is NOT dead. We admit it. Still there&#8217;s a diff between a dumb analog telephone adapter&nbsp;and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsflash","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.patton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.patton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.patton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.patton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.patton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.patton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"https:\/\/blog.patton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.patton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.patton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.patton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.patton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}