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Press Release
CINERGY® COMMUNICATIONS SIGNS CONTRACT WITH BROADSOFT
FOR DEPLOYMENT OF ENHANCED TELEPHONY SOLUTIONS
With Cinergy Communications, BroadSoft Strengthens
its Market Lead with the Most Announced Customers
GAITHERSBURG, MD, August 19, 2002 - BroadSoft®
, Inc., the leading provider of voice applications and servers,
today announced that it will deliver a complete enhanced telephony
solution to Cinergy Communications, a rapidly expanding regional
communications services provider. Cinergy Communications will use
the BroadWorks™ solution to expand its portfolio of services
to include enhanced IP voice services.
With Cinergy Communications, BroadSoft has now announced
nine service providers that are using the award-winning BroadWorks
system, further establishing its market leadership with the most
announced customers in its market segment.
Cinergy Communications will use BroadWorks to deliver
IP Centrex services to their small and medium-sized business customers
as well as to offer a hosted PBX solution to their medium and large
enterprises. Cinergy Communications is a rapidly growing service
provider that provides enhanced services to businesses and residents
in Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana. Cinergy Communications is an
affiliated company of Cinergy Corporation, one of the largest diversified
energy companies in North America.
"We have always focused on delivering our customers
integrated, value-oriented communications services. This has served
us well and allowed us to thrive in these uncertain times,"
said John Cinelli, President of Cinergy Communications. "We
believe our future success in large part depends on providing our
customers enhanced voice services. We chose the BroadSoft platform
because of its carrier-class redundancy and scalability - our customers'
dial tone service must be reliable. Of equal importance, it is easy
to use and allows for centralized administrative control."
"Cinergy Communications has grown its customer base by offering
customers innovative and cost-effective communications services.
We are very pleased to be selected by Cinergy Communciations to
further expand their business by offering hosted PBX services and
other enhanced telephony services," said Michael Tessler, president
and CEO, BroadSoft.
BroadWorks is the industry's first integrated system of voice applications
and servers enabling service providers to deliver basic and enhanced
voice services to enterprises. BroadWorks' voice and media servers
and telephony applications enable service providers to rapidly and
cost-effectively deploy a comprehensive portfolio of carrier-class
telephony services such as IP Centrex, hosted PBX, voice VPN, and
enhanced network applications. Using BroadWorks, service providers
and customer administrators can manage administrative functions
with BroadSoft's patented web-based portal, CommPilot™. The
BroadWorks architecture can scale to support millions of subscribers
and delivers 99.999% total system availability.
ABOUT CINERGY COMMUNICATIONS
Cinergy Communications has been providing telecommunications services
for more than 30 years. It offers local telephone service, long
distance calling, Internet solutions and web hosting to meet the
needs of every size company. In addition to its commercial services,
it also provides local telephone service, long distance calling
and Internet access to more than 20,000 homes. It offers service
in Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana. Cinergy Communications has had
a long history of innovation. It provided the first alternative
to AT&T long distance service in Western Kentucky. It started
the first Internet Service Providers in Southern Indiana and Western
Kentucky. It is again taking the lead by introducing BroadWorks'
enhanced voice services to the businesses in its network area. Additional
information can be found at www.cinergycom.com.
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 nine 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.
For further information contact:
BroadSoft
Hilary Tomasson
+ (240) 364-5147
htomasson@broadsoft.com
Cinergy Communications
Janet M. Cinelli
Cinergy Communications
+ (785) 749-3443
jcinelli@cinergycom.com
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BroadSoft is a registered trademark and BroadWorks and CommPilot
are trademarks of BroadSoft, Inc. All other names are trademarks
of their respective companies.
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