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Press Release
FLORIDA BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS SERVICE PROVIDER,
COMMUNICATIONS XCHANGE, SIGNS CONTRACT TO DEPLOY BROADSOFT'S AWARD-WINNING
BROADWORKS
Communications Xchange To Use BroadWorks to offer
Bundled Voice Services to Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Using
a Broadband Internet Connection
GAITHERSBURG, MD, September 18, 2002 - BroadSoft®,
Inc., the leading provider of voice applications and servers, today
announced that Communications Xchange, a new business communications
solution provider based in Tampa, Florida, will use BroadSoft's
industry leading BroadWorks to offer a bundled voice solution, using
a broadband Internet connection, to small and medium-sized businesses
in Florida. Communications Xchange represents the tenth commercial
deployment for BroadSoft, further strengthening BroadSoft's market
leadership in its space.
Communications Xchange designed and built its network
to specifically meet the requirements of providing cost-effective
bundled communications services to business customers. By leveraging
BroadSoft's enhanced service management and lower cost infrastructure,
Communications Xchange will obtain a significant competitive advantage.
"Through our extensive evaluation, it became
apparent that BroadSoft was the best choice for voice applications
and servers," said Mike Viren, CEO of Communications Xchange.
"We found BroadSoft to be the most complete carrier-class solution.
We were very impressed with the redundancy and scalability of BroadWorks
and its comprehensive set of easy-to-use, end-user and administrative
features".
"Communications Xchange has successfully leveraged
its founding members' knowledge of the local telecommunication industry.
With its state-of-the-art network design, Communications Xchange
has built a solid foundation for offering next-generation communications
services. We are very pleased to be selected by Communications Xchange
to add value to their IP telephony business," 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 enterprise. BroadWorks'
voice and media servers and telephony applications enable service
providers to rapidly and cost-effectively deploy a comprehensive
portfolio of carrier-class telephony applications 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 COMMUNICATIONS XCHANGE
Communications Xchange will provide packet telephony services and
is the only provider to offer local packet telephony services in
the Tampa and St. Petersburg, Florida area. Communications Xchange
offers small and medium sized business customers (4 lines and above)
an integrated voice and data service through our broadband Internet
partnerships. The Communications Xchange platform ensures quality
voice services and the delivery of applications such as auto attendant,
remote office, unified messaging and virtual private networks. By
providing cost effective, productivity-enhancing and reliable communications
services as well as personalized customer service, Communications
Xchange is the only partner a business needs for its current and
future telecommunication requirements. Additional information can
be found at www.communicationsxchange.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 the most announced customers to date. 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
Communications Xchange:
Sarah Keener
Communications Xchange
+ (813) 984-6631 ext. 109
sekeener@communicationsxchange.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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