BroadSoft's Service Delivery System and Vpacket's Voice/Data Router Complete Interoperability Testing - Total Solution Available Today

GAITHERSBURG, MD and MILIPITAS, CA, July 9, 2001 — BroadSoft, Inc., the leading provider of service delivery systems for next-generation telephony services, and Vpacket Communications, a privately held Silicon Valley company delivering the power of converged voice and data solutions, today announced a partnership to enable service providers to use packet-based networks to deliver enhanced telecom services to their enterprise customers. The two companies recently completed successful interoperability testing between BroadSoft's industry-leading BroadWorks™ service delivery system and Vpacket's 6100 Series voice/data router. The joint solution is now available to service providers.

BroadSoft's BroadWorks is currently being used by service providers to deliver user-friendly, enhanced telephony services to their enterprise customers. The BroadSoft-Vpacket partnership will enable the two companies to increase their market leadership by offering service providers a reliable, economical solution for delivering web-enabled telephony services to the enterprise market. BroadSoft's BroadWorks, which includes a rich set of web-enabled telephony services, interworks with Vpacket's 6100 series voice/data router to provide a complete packet-based telephony solution. The Vpacket equipment provides the customer premise connectivity, while BroadSoft provides the platform that allows the delivery of the services.

"Service providers today are looking for high quality, reliable solutions that will enable them to increase their market reach," said Scott Wharton, vice president of marketing at BroadSoft. "BroadSoft's complete suite of services and management capabilities, in conjunction with Vpacket's innovative networking products, makes it easy for providers to rapidly and cost-effectively enter and serve these markets."

BroadWorks is the industry's first complete service delivery system that enables service providers to offer a rich set of web-enabled user-friendly enhanced telephony services. BroadWorks' platform cuts across circuit and packet technologies, allowing service providers to roll out packet-based telephony services with incremental investment to their network infrastructure. The BroadWorks services portfolio includes Centrex services such as call waiting, conferencing and voice mail, auto-attendant and follow-me-anywhere services; new services such as instant messaging; and integration with key business tools such as Outlook and Palm OS-based hand-held devices. These services can be customized and managed via BroadWorks' web-based portal, CommPilot™, which provides an alternative user interface for enhanced services, replacing the flash-hook and star codes of a standard phone.

"Vpacket's 6100 Series voice/data router has overcome one of the last and most challenging hurdles facing IP based converged voice and data to the enterprise -- QoS," said Ted Butch, area vice president of business development for Vpacket. "Our joint solution with Broadsoft will enable service providers to deliver next-generation telephony features to the enterprise with the advanced management and monitoring capabilities necessary to ensure service quality."

Vpacket's 6100 Series voice/data router features the most advanced level of Quality of Service management for converged networks available today, as well as auto-provisioning and configuration. It enables service providers to offer advanced voice and data services over a single broadband connection to mid-size businesses, branch offices, multi-tenant units and campus environments. Additionally, while offering customers true carrier-class packetized voice transport, the 6100 reduces costs of deployment and management of converged networks as it supports advanced voice and data features in 12 or 24 port configurations.

ABOUT BROADSOFT
BroadSoft, Inc., is the leading provider of service delivery systems for next-generation telephony services. BroadWorks, the company's flagship product, allows integrated communications providers (ICPs) to rapidly and economically design and deploy web-enabled enhanced telephony services to their customers. BroadSoft has received extensive industry recognition including "Hot Start-Up" awards by America's Network and Telecommunications magazines, two of the leading telecommunications industry publications. BroadWorks was also recognized as Product of the Year by Communications Solutions magazine. BroadSoft is located near Washington, DC, in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and also maintains a research and development facility in Montreal, Canada. Additional information can be found at www.broadsoft.com.

ABOUT VPACKET COMMUNICATIONS
With offices in Silicon Valley, Westlake Village and Pleasanton, Calif., Vpacket Communications is a privately held converged voice/data broadband company focused on providing cost effective managed voice over packet solutions for CLECs, Integrated Communication Providers (ICPs), ILEC's, IP oriented carriers and other network service providers. Vpacket products enable people to communicate seamlessly across IP networks with high-quality, feature- rich converged voice/data applications. Vpacket is well positioned to be a leader in this emerging market, with an experienced team from industry-leading networking companies and approximately $38 million in funding from top venture capital firms. For more information, visit the company's website at www.vpacket.com.