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Press Release
BroadSoft Selected by McLeodUSA to Power VoIP Integrated
Access Services for Businesses
BroadSoft Continues to Lead Market With a Full Range
of VoIP Business Applications to Service Providers
GAITHERSBURG, MD, February 1, 2005 -- BroadSoft®
Inc., the world's premier provider of VoIP applications software,
today announced that McLeodUSA Incorporated (Nasdaq:MCLD), one of
the nation's largest independent competitive telecommunications
services providers, has selected BroadSoft's BroadWorks® platform
to provide a full range of VoIP business applications for the company's
Preferred Advantage® Dynamic Integrated Access service.
With BroadSoft's BroadWorks platform, McLeodUSA is able to offer
services to enterprises at varying stages of IP deployment, ranging
from those customers with existing PBX equipment to those desiring
a completely hosted IP service. The platform provides a comprehensive
range of VoIP applications, including hosted PBX, business trunking,
residential broadband, hosted key system and IP multimedia services
fully integrated into a single hosted communications platform. BroadWorks
is uniquely capable of providing these applications with the reliability,
redundancy, scalability and regulatory capabilities required to
deliver carrier-class service.
"McLeodUSA is committed to providing our customers with world-class
integrated voice and data solutions," said Andreas Papanicolaou,
Executive Vice-President of Network Services for McLeodUSA. "BroadSoft's
BroadWorks VoIP platform addressed our need for scalability and
support for multiple applications. By providing a standards-based
open architecture, BroadWorks enables us to support our strategy
by expanding our Preferred Advantage® product portfolio, delivering
cost-effective communications solutions and capabilities to our
customers."
"McLeodUSA is reinforcing its promise to put its customers first
with the rapid deployment of its Preferred AdvantageSM Dynamic Integrated
Access service, allowing companies to simplify communications, lower
costs and provide higher functionality," said Michael Tessler, president
and CEO at BroadSoft. "We're proud to have been chosen by McLeodUSA
who is known for providing world class communications services that
offer advanced features, reliability, flexibility and customer control
by using the latest technology."
With Preferred Advantage Dynamic Integrated Access, McLeodUSA customers
receive high-speed Internet access, high quality voice service,
17 local calling features, the convenience of an easy-to-use web-based
control panel, and the ability to add or change features and generate
reports via the McLeodUSA customer web portal. McLeodUSA customers
with multiple locations will enjoy the benefits of abbreviated dialing
and free site-to-site calling between all of their Dynamic Integrated
Access served locations.
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 customer
base of more than 90 network operators, including BellSouth, MCI,
Telstra, and XO Communications, leads the industry with more than
750,000 lines deployed. Additional information is available at
www.broadsoft.com
BroadSoft and BroadWorks are registered trademarks of BroadSoft,
Inc. All other names are trademarks of their respective companies.
For further information contact:
Calysto Communications for BroadSoft
Cameron Smith
+1 (404) 266-2060 ext.19
csmith@calysto.com
BroadSoft
Hilary Tomasson
+1 (240) 364-5147
htomasson@broadsoft.com
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