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XO Communications Reaches
100,000 User Milestone through Business Trunking
Service
 XO Communications’ XOptions Flex
service now boasts more than 100,000 end users
served. XOptions Flex, based on the BroadWorks
VoIP business trunking application, counts over
7,500 enterprise customers who have chosen the
service as a cost-effective migration path to
IP while extending the useful life of premises-based
communications systems. Read
more.»
Iskratel, Leading Systems Integrator
Serving Eastern Europe, Selects BroadSoft Platform
 Iskratel,
one of the leading systems integrators in Eastern
Europe, picked BroadSoft’s
hosted PBX and residential broadband applications
as the building blocks of its VoIP service
offerings to target businesses and consumers
in the region. With the BroadWorks software,
Iskratel develops differentiated services for
these distinct market segments using a single
VoIP application platform. Iskratel stands out
further by packaging localization, billing, and
portal customization to support their multilingual
market. Read
more.»
BroadSoft Nets Financial
Times Article Highlighting
VoIP Opportunities in Europe
 A
recent article in the Financial
Times showed the challenges and opportunities
facing VoIP deployments in Europe. The article,
based on research commissioned by BroadSoft and
conducted by Savatar, appeared in the January
22, 2007 issue of the Financial
Times, which
boasts a readership of 1.4 million across 110
countries.
As the article explained, to be successful in Europe, service providers
have to encourage VoIP adoption throughout the region, especially in
the small and medium business (SMB) category. These SMBs are facing options
in communications, and need to explicitly understand the benefits of
VoIP versus standard PBX systems.
To read the FT article,
click here.»
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BEA Systems and BroadSoft Form Strategic Alliance to Serve Telecommunications Service Providers
 BroadSoft and BEA Systems recently signed a strategic alliance agreement that allows joint marketing and sales of the companies’ solutions. This alliance gives telecom service providers the ability to offer industry-leading applications over an innovative, standards-based platform. BEA’s WebLogic Control Platform (WCP), specifically WebLogic SIP Server, complements BroadSoft’s BroadWorks VoIP Application server, which is also based on SIP. This agreement brings existing and prospective customers of BEA’s WCP easier access to the advanced VoIP applications of the BroadWorks software, including hosted PBX, mobile PBX, residential broadband, and business trunking. Read
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Huawei Selects BroadSoft as Key Component of IMS Solutions
 In
a jointly issued press release, the companies
announced that Huawei selected BroadSoft’s
BroadWorks as part of its IMS solutions for telecom
service providers around the world. As part of
the agreement, Huawei, with a strong brand particularly
in the Asia Pacific region, becomes a channel
for BroadWorks distribution.
Huawei has been actively building an IMS supply
chain with partners to give service providers
access to all the elements of an IMS architecture
for easier selection and deployment. Read
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RADVISION and BroadSoft’s 3GSM Video Community Demos Show New Ways to Interact
 Whatever
the topic of interest, video chats let people
discuss and debate the issues nearly face to
face, whether they’re on
the road or at a desk. BroadWorks’ interoperability
with the RADVISION Interactive Video Platform
enables new applications linking mobile callers
with video endpoints, whether the endpoint is
a video phone or softphone, such as the BroadWorks
Communicator Multimedia. RADVISION displayed
the interoperability between their 3G gateway
and Multipoint Conferencing Unit (MCU) at 3GSM,
using the BroadWorks VoIP application platform
in the network and the BroadWorks Communicator
Multimedia as part of the Video Community demonstration.
Exciting elements such as moderated video chat
and multiple participants lets groups of like-minded
people interact, with video, to discuss the latest
sports game, musical concert, or earnings report.
Watch for more chances to see this demo in action
at upcoming industry events, or contact your
account manager for more details. Read
more.»
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BroadWorks Assistant — Mobile Highlighted as Key Differentiator for Mainstream Digital
  Mainstream
Digital, a service provider based in the United
Kingdom, selected the BroadWorks platform to
deliver fixed and mobile voice services to small
and medium enterprises (SMEs) throughout Europe.
Mainstream Digital’s offering includes
both hosted PBX services as well as business
trunking services. Offering fixed services through
IP phones and softphone clients as well as mobile
services using the BroadWorks Assistant – Mobile
client lets Mainstream Digital deliver the latest
communications features to SMEs with both office-based
and road warrior employees. BroadWorks Assistant
– Mobile operates on Nokia ESeries mobile phones,
giving users access to advanced calling services
based on the BroadWorks platform at any time,
from anywhere. Read
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BroadWorks Mobility Manager Enables Mobile Carriers to Quickly Commercialize FMC and Dual-Mode Services
 The
new BroadWorks Mobility Manager bridges the gap
between mobile networks and VoIP networks, and
gives mobile operators the missing link required
to deploy best-in-class mobile enterprise, converged
enterprise, and dual-mode services. BroadWorks
Mobility Manager lets mobile operators deliver
services that increase minutes of use, thus improving
average revenue per user and reducing the likelihood
of churn.
With the BroadWorks Mobility Manager, mobile carriers have a differentiated,
high-value service to break into the lucrative business market. The Mobility
Manager lets mobile operators offer enhanced services to an all-mobile
workforce and to a workforce that uses both mobile and landline services.
Enterprise users will see increased productivity with features such as
a single voice mailbox to access any voice messages.
Read
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BroadSoft’s New Client Management System Brings Simplicity and Control to Client Services Delivery Function
 Provisioning
and managing client services can make or break
an enhanced service offering — without
these capabilities at the end-users’ fingertips,
leading-edge features are worthless. Close the
gap and deliver services all the way to the desktop
with the BroadWorks Client Management System
(CMS).
CMS lets service providers manage the client — whether it’s a
physical phone on the desk or softphone on a computer — including initial
provisioning and configuration, firmware upgrades to enable new features,
and ongoing reporting. Simplifying client management means faster activation
of differentiated services and a shorter path to new revenue for service
providers. Read
more.»
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CORPORATE NEWS |
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 Craig Decker joined the BroadSoft team recently as the Vice President of Sales for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. In this role, Decker holds responsibility for all sales and marketing activity in the region. Prior to joining BroadSoft, Decker held executive sales roles with Newport Networks, Syndesis, and CoSine Communications. Upon joining BroadSoft, Decker remarked, “I look forward to helping BroadSoft expand dramatically within Europe and the rest of the EMEA region, and cement the BroadWorks platform as the de
facto VoIP application suite in this market.” Read
more.»
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