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Press Release
4th Largest Australian ISP Selects BroadSoft
to Power Residential VoIP Services
iiNet Selects BroadSoft for its Scalability, Manageability
and Rich Feature Sets
GAITHERSBURG, MD, February 1, 2005 -- BroadSoft®,
the world's premier provider of VoIP application software, today
announced that iiNet Limited (ASX: IIN) has selected BroadSoft's
BroadWorks® VoIP application software to support its residential
VoIP offering. Mixing the latest in advanced features with competitive
pricing, iiNet's VoIP service will launch in Australia by mid year.
"VoIP, or Internet telephony, is the next generation of communications,
and allows customers to make significant savings on their long distance
and international phone calls," said Greg Bader, chief technology
officer, iiNet. "We chose the BroadWorks technology as the platform
for our VoIP product for its scalability, and the easy-to-use advanced
features."
"We're proud to be chosen by iiNet, one of the largest ISPs in
Australia and New Zealand," said Michael Tessler, president and
CEO at BroadSoft. "This latest customer win further validates BroadSoft's
position as the leading residential VoIP platform. BroadWorks keeps
our customers ahead of the competition by providing an open architecture
that scales to support millions of users and an ever-evolving list
of new and exciting features."
iiNet's VoIP service will enable home users to realize significant
savings on their monthly telephone bills, by using IP networks instead
of the telephone network for making calls. Some of the additional
features that iiNet VoIP customers can receive include:
· Retrieval of voice messages from any phone or email account;
· Automatic dialing from Microsoft Outlook to key contacts;
· Video calls that can be integrated into a traditional phone
call;
· Forwarding selected incoming calls to voicemail, email
or another phone;
· Distinctive ring tones for incoming calls.
BroadSoft's BroadWorks 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.
ABOUT iiNET
iiNet is one of Australia's Internet service pioneers, having begun
in Western Australia in 1993. At June 30, 2004, iiNet was the fourth
largest Internet Service Provider in Australia, offering dialup,
broadband, phone and voice services. iiNet has built a reputation
for providing innovative, quality and value Internet products, and
friendly 24-hour customer service and support. For more information
on iiNet, please visit www.iinet.net.au
or call 13 19 17 (in-country) or +61-8-92131375 (international).
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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