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Cbeyond and BroadSoft Take
Leadership Role in SIP Trunking Market
A Dozen IP PBXs Deployed Through Innovative
SIP Trunking Service Validates Market Demand
BOSTON - September 12, 2006 - Cbeyond®,
(NASDAQ: CBEY), a managed services provider to small businesses,
and BroadSoft Inc., a leading provider of VoIP application software,
today announced their leadership role in the Session Initiated Protocol
(SIP) trunking market. Both companies stake their claim based on
the success of a dozen IP PBX vendors that have successfully deployed
solutions leveraging their innovative SIP Trunking Service, which
further validates market demand.
Cbeyond and BroadSoft developed their SIP Trunking Service with
the SIPconnect specification, which was pioneered 18 months ago
by both organizations, along with a number of other leading IP telephony
vendors. This specification fosters direct IP interoperability among
businesses with IP PBXs and service providers by providing a consistent,
industry standards-based approach to interconnection using SIP and
other standard VoIP protocols.
"An industry standards-based approach to SIP trunking, such
as SIPconnect, is an essential condition for widespread adoption
by both IP-PBX vendors and service providers," said Marc Robins,
chief evangelism officer at RCG and a leading IP communications
industry authority. "Cbeyond, as the first VoIP service provider
to embrace SIPconnect and one of the first to launch a successful
SIP trunking service, and BroadSoft, with its development and support
of the underlying technology, are true pioneers of this technology."
The SIPconnect specification, which is now a SIP Forum-proposed
recommendation, includes detailed instructions and architecture
specifications designed to ensure a consistent quality of service,
low cost and full-featured telephony for SIP-based VoIP calls.
"Cbeyond's BeyondVoice with SIPconnect service, an integrated
voice, broadband and mobile package, provides our small business
customers with features typically available only to large enterprises,"
said Brooks Robinson, chief marketing officer for Cbeyond. "Directly
peering with next generation IP PBXs via SIP, allows Cbeyond to
take advantage of our strong relationships with the channel partner
community, while leveraging the innovation of more than a dozen
IP?PBX vendors."
Fully interoperable IP PBX vendors that have successfully deployed
solutions leveraging SIPconnect include Allworx, Asterisk, Avaya,
Cisco, Epygi, Fonality, Guardian Technologies, Linksys, Sphere Communications,
Switchvox, TalkSwitch and TeleChoice Solutions.
"It's exciting to see such a widespread adoption of SIPconnect
by IP PBX vendors," said Scott Wharton, vice president of marketing
for BroadSoft. "We can power SIPconnect and help service providers
like Cbeyond generate new streams of revenue."
About Cbeyond
Cbeyond (NASDAQ: CBEY) is an Atlanta-based managed services provider
that delivers integrated packages of voice, mobile and broadband
services to small businesses in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver,
Houston and Los Angeles. Cbeyond offers core communications services
such as local and long-distance voice, mobile and broadband Internet
access along with enhanced applications, including voicemail, email,
Web hosting, fax-to-email, data backup, file-sharing, VPN and more.
Cbeyond manages these services over a private, 100?percent Voice
over Internet Protocol (VoIP) facilities-based network. For more
information on Cbeyond, visit www.cbeyond.net
About BroadSoft
BroadSoft's VoIP application software is revolutionizing the delivery
of hosted telephony and multimedia services. Its flagship BroadWorks
technology empowers wireless, wireline and cable carriers to deliver
next-generation voice and multimedia applications and advanced features
that increase revenue, enhance competitive differentiation and elevate
customer satisfaction. BroadSoft's family of carrier-class software
products delivers the scale, open architecture and reliability that
the world's leading telecommunications companies demand to serve
mission-critical enterprise and residential broadband customers.
BroadSoft provides VoIP applications to 6 of the top 10 and 11 of
the top 25 largest carriers worldwide, including Korea Telecom,
Singtel, Telefonica de Espana, Telstra, T-Systems, Verizon and XO
Communications.
Forward-Looking Statements
This document contains forward-looking statements within the meaning
of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements
include, but are not limited to statements identified by words such
as "believes," "expects," "anticipates,"
"estimates," "intends," "plans," "targets,"
"projects" and similar expressions. Such statements are
based upon the current beliefs and expectations of Cbeyond's management
and are subject to significant risks and uncertainties. Actual results
may differ from those set forth in the forward-looking statements.
Factors that might cause future results to differ include, but are
not limited to, the following: adoption of SIPconnect by IP-PBX
vendors and service providers, market acceptance of this service
by our small business customers, changes in federal or state regulation
that affects the Company; the timing of the initiation, progress
or cancellation of significant contracts or arrangements; the mix
and timing of services sold in a particular period; competitive
factors; the need to balance the recruitment and retention of experienced
management and personnel with the maintenance of high labor utilization;
rapid technological change and the timing and amount of start-up
costs incurred in connection with the introduction of new services
or the entrance into new markets; the inability to attract sufficient
customers in new markets; changes in estimates of taxable income
or utilization of deferred tax assets which could significantly
affect the Company's effective tax rate; and general economic and
business conditions.
BroadSoft and BroadWorks are registered trademarks
of BroadSoft, Inc.
All other names are trademarks of their respective companies.
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Media Contact:
BroadSoft, Inc.
Francis Hopkins
240.364.5375
fhopkins@broadsoft.com
Cbeyond, Inc.
Michelle Tank
678-370-2437
michelle.tank@cbeyond.net
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