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Press Release
BROADSOFT AND PEERLINX ANNOUNCE FIRST FULL-FEATURED
WIRELESS VOICE-OVER-IP TELEPHONE NETWORK SERVICE
PeerLinx signs contract to use BroadSoft's
Award-Winning BroadWorks to deliver Enhanced Voice Services
over the PeerCom Wireless Communications Network
ATLANTA, GA, June 3, 2002 - BroadSoft, Inc., the leading
provider of voice applications and servers, and PeerLinx, Inc.,
the premier provider of wireless integrated voice and data services,
today announced that PeerLinx is commercially deploying BroadWorks-based
enhanced telephony services to its existing residential and commercial
customers nationwide.
"In our view, after extensive testing of competing platforms,
BroadSoft's feature-rich BroadWorks platform was simply outstanding.
It is the only platform that provides our customers the best of
two worlds - the reliability and sound quality that telephone customers
demand, plus the advanced telephony features that customers seek
today," said F.W. "Woody" Boyd, president and CEO,
PeerLinx. "With BroadWorks we can offer IP Centrex services
with an extensive set of web-enabled enhanced telephony services
including area wide Centrex, conferencing, call forwarding, caller
ID, voice mail, follow-me-anywhere calling, auto attendant and a
host of enhanced IP voice services."
PeerLinx's micro cellular network of U-NII band wireless technology
(AstroPacket) allows the company to sell high-speed Internet,
local and long distance telephone services, monitored security and
other services, all on a single wireless infrastructure. PeerCom
services are billed at flat rate prices and are sold to homes and
businesses in a variety of packages. "With BroadSoft, consumers
and small businesses can access more advanced telephone services
than they ever could before," says Boyd.
"We are excited to be selected by PeerLinx," said Michael
Tessler, co-founder, president and CEO, BroadSoft. "PeerLinx
has the vision - and now in service, the capability - to offer competitive
voice services. PeerLinx is able to deliver toll-quality telephone
service at a great price over its wireless VoIP network and now,
with BroadWorks-based services, its customers reap the benefits
of an array of enhanced features."
With PeerLinx, BroadSoft has now announced eight service providers
nationwide who are using BroadWorks to add easy-to-use enhanced
voice services to their service offerings. BroadWorks is the industry's
first integrated system of voice applications and servers enabling
service providers to deliver basic and enhanced voice services to
enterprise customers. The BroadWorks product family offers service
providers a comprehensive portfolio of voice applications such as
IP Centrex, hosted PBX, Voice VPN, and enhanced network applications.
BroadWorks empowers service providers and enterprise administrators
to manage administrative functions via BroadWorks' patented web-based
portal, CommPilotä. The BroadWorks architecture offers service
providers unprecedented carrier-class reliability and redundancy,
scaling to support millions of subscribers and delivering 99.999%
total system availability.
BroadSoft will be showing a live demonstration of BroadWorks in
their booth (#11217) at SUPERCOMM 2002 this week at the Georgia
World Congress Center in Atlanta.
ABOUT BROADSOFT
BroadSoft, Inc., is the leading provider of voice applications and
servers for service providers. BroadWorks, the company's flagship
product, allows service providers to rapidly and economically design
and deploy web-enabled enhanced telephony services to their customers.
BroadSoft holds the largest market share in the IP Centrex space
with eight announced customers. BroadSoft has received extensive
industry acknowledgement including recognition as a "Hot Start-Up"
by America's Network and Telecommunications magazines, two of the
leading telecommunications industry publications. Communications
Solutions, Internet Telephony and Network Magazine recognized BroadWorks
as Product of the Year. 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 PEERLINX
PeerLinx, Inc. is a four-year-old wireless technologies corporation
offering services based on the newly released unlicensed U-NII band
spectrum. Using U-NII band for outdoor broadband delivery, as well
as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth indoor technologies, PeerLinx's Peercom services
offer services set-up and delivery anywhere, independent of Incumbent
Local Exchange Carriers. On a single wireless data fabric, the company
sells multiple digital services including data high speed Internet,
local and long-distance telephone service, and wireless security
with video monitoring. In the future, the Peercom service offering
will include automatic data storage/caching, electrical power monitoring
and control, and video-on-demand. PeerLinx uses proprietary and
patent-pending systems for user authentication, security, signal
integrity, and other U-NII and 802.11 capabilities. In operation
today, PeerLinx is selling the world's first unlicensed wireless
voice and data last mile solution. Visit the company's website at
www.peerlinx.com.
For further information contact:
BroadSoft
Hilary Tomasson
+ (240) 364-5147
htomasson@broadsoft.com
PeerLinx
Chris Hartley
PeerLinx, Inc.
+ (423) 793-7001
Chris.Hartley@peercom.net
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BroadSoft is a registered trademark and BroadWorks and CommPilot
are trademarks of BroadSoft, Inc. PeerLinx, Peercom, and AstroPacket
are trademarks of PeerLinx, Inc. All other names are trademarks
of their respective companies.
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