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Press Release
BROADSOFT AND INTEGRAL ACCESS PARTNER TO DELIVER
ENHANCED VOICE SERVICES
Interoperability Testing Successfully Completed
to Accelerate the Migration to IP Centrex and Hosted PBX
GAITHERSBURG, MD, and CHELMSFORD, MA, November
11, 2002 - BroadSoft®, Inc., the leading provider of voice
applications and servers, and Integral Access, Inc., the leading
provider of IP access networks, today announced the successful completion
of interoperability testing between BroadSoft's award-winning BroadWorks™
solution and Integral Access' award-winning PurePacket access network
solution. The BroadSoft-Integral Access solution will allow service
providers to substantially cut operating expenses by simplifying
network management and delivering more efficient and higher quality
voice services.
The joint solution will enable users with traditional analog devices
to benefit from BroadWorks IP Centrex and hosted PBX capabilities
by leveraging Integral Access' PurePacket technology in a softswitch
architecture. PurePacket allows service providers to take advantage
of the operational efficiencies of its IP-based access network technology
and to offer additional services, such as converged voice and data,
without the need for increased bandwidth. This also provides a migrational
path from traditional circuit-switched services to new IP Centrex
and enterprise voice services.With Integral Access' multi-service
access gateway and BroadWorks' comprehensive suite of enhanced voice
services, service providers can now ensure customers quality of
service and carrier-class telephony over the last mile. Service
providers will also benefit from enhanced security and reliability,
as well as easier network management.
"BroadSoft's BroadWorks offers the scalability,
reliability and flexibility service providers need to provide carrier
class telephony services. Combined with PurePacket, service providers
can realize greater revenues with the delivery of enhanced services
to analog or IP-enabled endpoints," said Jack Cicon, president
and CEO, Integral Access. "With the intelligent QoS architecture,
service providers can deliver very high levels of performance while
significantly reducing operating expenses."
"Integral Access' PurePacket technology delivers a high-performance
end-to-end access solution that perfectly complements BroadWorks'
voice applications and servers. The successful integration of BroadWorks
and Integral Access' PurePacket technology will present significant
cost savings for our customers, while enabling them to offer additional
carrier-class services. We look forward to working with them to
deliver efficient voice solutions to our customers", 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 applications and
servers enable 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 to deliver 99.999% total system
availability.
The PurePacket system is an intelligent IP-based access
solution that allows carriers to deliver a comprehensive set of
converged services over a single multi-purpose network regardless
of the last mile link available for reaching customers. To maximize
the traffic carrying capacity of networks and increase revenue opportunities
for carriers, PurePacket uses an IP/MPLS-based architecture to route,
transport and switch voice, video, and data transmissions in packet
format. PurePacket provides simultaneous support for domestic and
international circuit-switch networks and global softswitch architectures
as a line access gateway - facilitating the migration to an all
packet-based infrastructure.
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 and Hosted
PBX 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.
ABOUT INTEGRAL ACCESS
Integral Access, Inc. provides multi-service, packet-based access
systems that utilize MPLS to enable carriers to offer differentiated
services and combine voice/data on next generation IP-based networks,
as well as traditional circuit switched and ATM infrastructures.
The company offers a complete access platform, which includes central
office, campus, and in-building aggregation platforms; line access
gateways, customer premises equipment; and an object-oriented operations
management system for network control and services management. Integral
Access is headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, USA, and is
privately held. To contact Integral Access call +1-978-256-8833,
visit us on the web at www.integralaccess.com
For further information contact:
BroadSoft
Hilary Tomasson
+ (240) 364-5147
htomasson@broadsoft.com
Integral Access
Nelson Hsu
Sr. Director, Marketing & Business Development
+ (978) 367-7546
nhsu@integralaccess.com
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BroadSoft is a registered trademark and BroadWorks and CommPilot
are trademarks of BroadSoft, Inc. PurePacketCompact, and PurePacketOMS
are trademarks of Integral Access, Inc. PurePacket, OUTburst, PurePacketNode,
PurePacketPower, Integral Access, and the Integral Access logo are
registered trademarks of Integral Access, Inc. All other names are
trademarks of their respective companies.
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