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First Russian Hosted PBX Strengthens BroadSoft's
Market Position in Eastern Europe
National Telecom Operator Leverages BroadWorks
Platform to Provide Added Value through Voice
Gaithersburg, Maryland, May 30, 2006 - BroadSoft Inc, the
leading provider of VoIP application software, today announced that
Russian national operator RTComm, has selected BroadSoft's BroadWorks
VoIP application platform to deliver the first hosted PBX services
to the Russian marketplace. RTComm will use the BroadWorks platform
to assist service providers in opening up a new market for affordable
IP based corporate triple-play applications and hosted PBX services.
RTComm will offer BroadWorks' hosted PBX applications to service
providers as part of its corporate over IP (CoIP) product, helping
them to deliver a complete suite of enhanced PBX functionality over
an IP connection to their customers. Correspondingly, end-users
will benefit from flexible communications capability throughout
the enterprise and access to true business-grade triple-play services
at highly economical rates.
"RTComm joins the large number of incumbent service providers
using BroadSoft's VoIP application platform to offer the first compelling
hosted PBX opportunity in their home market. As businesses realise
that they don't necessarily need to rip out their old systems and
build a new one from scratch in order to enjoy a wealth of feature-rich
VoIP applications that will help profitability and productivity
levels on a daily basis, we expect RTComm to see an upsurge in demand
from a cross-section of enterprise users," explained Michael
Tessler, President and Chief Executive Officer for BroadSoft. "RTComm
leads the market in Eastern Europe by deploying the BroadWorks platform
to offer the most valuable and vital voice services to business
consumers for increased productivity and efficiency in communications."
About RTCOMM
RTCOMM (Synterra Group) is one of the leading companies in the
Russian telecommunications market and has extensive experience in
operating in a modern and competitive communication market. RTCOMM
has the most developed IP-network in Russia with access points in
150+ cities, the international backbone PoPs is London, Frankfurt
and Riga, over 80 gateways to local access networks in Russian regions
and over 1000 customers: national and international carriers, oil
and metal holdings, banks and financial companies, etc. RTComm offers
Internet wholesale services for Russian and CIS ISPs, VPN services
(Layer 3, Layer 2, Layer 1) for business customers, VoIP services
for business customers, Wi-Fi and videoconference Centrex solutions
for fast start customer sites, Data Centers facilities and Managed
service solutions.
Additional information is available at www.rtcomm.ru
About BroadSoft
BroadSoft's VoIP application software is revolutionizing the delivery
of hosted telephony and multimedia services. Its flagship BroadWorks®
technology empowers wireless and wireline 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's leads
the VoIP applications market with 6 of the top 10 and 11 of the
top 25 largest carriers worldwide including BellSouth, Korea Telecom,
Singtel, Telefónica de España, Telstra, T-Systems,
Verizon and XO Communications.
BroadSoft and BroadWorks are registered trademarks
of BroadSoft, Inc. All other names are trademarks of their respective
companies.
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Media Contacts:
BroadSoft
Hilary Tomasson
+1 240.364.5147
htomasson@broadsoft.com
AxiCom for BroadSoft
Oliver Chapman
+44 20 8392 4061
oliver.chapman@axicom.com
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