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Press Release
BROADSOFT EXPANDS TO ASIA-PACIFIC WITH FUJITSU
AGREEMENT
Partnership Furthers BroadWorks' International
Penetration and Supports Company's Global Reach
GAITHERSBURG, MD, June 4, 2002 - BroadSoft, Inc., the leading
provider of voice applications and servers, today announced it is
expanding its global reach to the service providers in the Asia-Pacific
region through a strategic agreement with Singapore-based Fujitsu
Asia Pte Ltd, one of the leading international telecommunications
solutions providers. Under this agreement, Fujitsu Asia will resell
BroadSoft's flagship product BroadWorks throughout the Asia-Pacific
region as well as provide system integration, technical support,
and total network deployment support. Fujitsu Asia will offer BroadWorks
as a key component of their next-generation network solution suite,
delivering a rich portfolio of enhanced voice services to its large
service provider installed base in Asia-Pacific region. Fujitsu
Asia will also build and staff a BroadWorks center of excellence
in Singapore.
"Our partnership with BroadSoft and the addition of the innovative,
carrier-class services available with BroadWorks are of strategic
importance to our customers and our company. Using BroadWorks, we
can now offer customers the most reliable and the widest array of
both traditional and enhanced packet-based services available today,"
says Chng Teo-Hye, chairman and co-CEO of Fujitsu Asia. "We
are committed to providing our customers best-of-breed services
by partnering with industry leaders; our partnership with BroadSoft
underscores this commitment. We believe that strong partnerships
are key to our overall success, particularly our international expansion."
Fujitsu Asia is a major business and engineering hub for the Fujitsu
telecommunications switching business in the Asia-Pacific region.
Fujitsu's Fetex-150 central office switching system is one of the
most popular systems being deployed by major public telephone operators
in the region. Fujitsu Asia has established a large software R&D
center specializing in developing features for Fetex-150 switching
system and other voice, data and mobile solutions. Fujitsu Asia
is also a major IP Network Integrator offering best-of-breed products
and services to customers in the region. Converged voice and data
network solutions that are available include IP telephony, multi-modal
conferencing, unified messaging, and voice recognition systems.
"BroadSoft's ability to realize success in the Asia-Pacific
region has been greatly strengthened by allying with Fujitsu, the
switch provider of choice for many of the leading service providers
in this region," said Michael Tessler, co-founder, president,
and CEO of BroadSoft. "The Asia-Pacific marketplace presents
a major opportunity for BroadSoft as we are already engaged in trials
in the region. We are confident that leveraging the Fujitsu name
and innovative technology can bring these leads to fruition."
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.
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 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.
For further information contact:
BroadSoft
Hilary Tomasson
+ (240) 364-5147
htomasson@broadsoft.com
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BroadSoft, BroadWorks and CommPilot are trademarks of BroadSoft,
Inc. All other names are trademarks of their respective companies.
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