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VoIP application software provider Broadsoft’s chief technology officer will be speaking on a panel at Telephony Live: The 2008 Telecom Summit. The panel is “How open should i be?” and it will tackle how communications is changing with rapid advancements and how open a network should be.

“Developers, carriers and technologists need to collaborate through open networks so innovation can take place, which benefits our industry and the consumer,” Hoffpauir said. “Voice has been an underutilized application in the Web 2.0 evolution but recent advancements are changing the industry, and BroadSoft through our Xtended efforts, is one of the leading players on the international telephony stage.”

According to Broadsoft:

Telephony Live takes place Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 at the Chicago Embassy Suites in Chicago. Moderated by Telephony Magazine Reporter Rich Karpinski, the panel will discuss key emerging trends that are the talk of the telecom industry.

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Third place in the BroadSoft(R) Xtended Voice Mashup Contest went to QuickSet.

QuickSet allows both Windows and Mac users to access BroadWorks services through a simple desktop interface that is powered by the Adobe Air platform, allowing Flash applications to run on the desktop. It was created by Las Vegas-based Joseph Farrar.

“The ability to create mashups of Web services with voice features allows developers to quickly and easily create applications that positively impact public safety, business processes and other communication functions in ways that have not yet been possible,” said Michael Tessler, BroadSoft’s CEO and president. “Voice and Web 2.0 communication mashups are enabling innovation across all industries, allowing them to operate more efficiently.”

For their win, QuickSoft creators receive $1,000 and a free pass to BroadSoft Connections 2008.

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The judges for the BroadSoft, Inc. Xtended Voice Mashup Contest have been announced. The contest runs through Sept. 2. The contest is intended to encourage the creation of telephony mashups that are new services for customers.

According to BroadSoft:

Xtended Voice Mashup Contest judges include:
– John Musser - Founder & Blogger, Programmable Web, a site that covers mashups, Web 2.0 APIs and the Web as a platform
– Dave Gilbert - CEO, SimpleSignal, hosted business VoIP provider
– Rich Karpinksi - Reporter, Telephony Magazine and blog content provider, Telephony 2.0, covering news, technologies and business strategies of telecom providers
– Mike Tessler - CEO, BroadSoft, Inc.
– Scott Hoffpauir - CTO, BroadSoft, Inc.

Winners will be announced in September at the Web 2.0 Expo New York 2008.

“The goal of our Xtended program is to arm the market with voice applications that support individual work and personal lifestyles,” said Leslie Ferry, vice president of marketing for BroadSoft. “We are excited to have such a distinguished panel of judges who support our goal of fostering innovative telephony mashups in the marketplace.”

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Alec asks an interesting question about Broadsoft and like before when their PR department played something wrong in the blogosphere they’ve done it again by creating more questions than providing answers.

All they needed to do was reveal who some of their top developers are. I can easily guess and I’ll win the bet of a case of 1982 Lafite if anyone wants to take me on. But child’s play bets aren’t my game, and Alec, who has been on top of his game for quite a while makes some valid points in his post.

For a program to really be meaningful you need to have customers, not simply developers. It’s one of the reasons why the Apple WWDC that comes up in June in San Francisco, or Java One or likely Google I/O will all have throngs of developers filling up the hotel rooms quickly. Why? Because the customers are there.

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An Australian based trailblazer, Internode, and a leading provider of VoIP application software, BroadSoft, Inc. has launched NodePhone2, Internode’s second generation VoIP service based on BroadSoft’s BroadWork VoIP application platform.

The NodePhone2 delivers high-quality and two-way broadband service to residential and business customers throughout Australia. NodePhone2 enables customers to receive high-quality calls from the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). Additionally, it also allows customers to make outbound VoIP calls to the PSTN and other NodePhone customers. The second generation VoIP service, NodePhone2 offers comprehensive service, which includes features like voicemail, speed dial, caller ID, and a Web portal. Even users can access itemized billing information and call history. The service is available both as an individual services, which combines voice and broadband services. While Internode’s original outbound-only VoIP calling service, NodePhone1 would be remain available as a separate service. The company is planning to develop range of NodePhone services. The company is using Acme Packet, a BroadSoft Premier Access Solutions partner for session border controllers for NodePhone2.

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The cost of NodePhone2 is $10 per month for existing Internode customers with no included calls. The company is offering 18-cent unlimited calls to any standard fixed telephone service in Australia. If users are calling to Australian mobile users, then they have to pay 30 cents per minute.

According to Simon Hackett, Managing Director of Internode, BroadWorks gives clear path to add more VoIp services and its functionality enables company to offer featured rich services with high-quality and reliability at reasonable price.

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SAN JOSE, CA and GAITHERSBURG, MD, January 16, 2007 - BEA Systems, Inc., a world leader in enterprise and communications infrastructure software, and BroadSoft, Inc., a leading provider of VoIP application software, today announced a broad-ranging strategic alliance. This alliance includes joint development, sales, and marketing of solutions that will integrate the BroadSoft® BroadWorks® suite of VoIP applications with the BEA WebLogic® Communications Platform product family.

The BEA-BroadSoft partnership is a multi-year, multi-phased strategic alliance. Under the alliance, the two companies are conducting joint sales and marketing efforts, and BroadSoft has already begun to integrate and port the BroadWorks software platform with BEA WebLogic® SIP Server.

BEA and BroadSoft are teaming up to provide service providers the ability to offer industry-leading applications over an innovative, standards-based platform. The combination of BroadWorks software and BEA WebLogic SIP Server-a converged Java EE-SIP-IMS application server-will enable service providers to deploy revenue-generating services with a rich set of VoIP capabilities. It will also be designed to provide a flexible and extensible architecture that will work in an all-IP and IMS environment in the future.

"This alliance brings together two industry-leading telecom application platforms, which will allow service providers to deliver BroadWorks-based fixed and mobile VoIP services with IMS enablers and capabilities that can be hosted on BEA WebLogic SIP Server, " said Ken Rokoff, vice president of business development at BroadSoft. "Until today, no VoIP application platform in the market has integrated with a converged Java EE-SIP-IMS application server. This unique offering can help drive new service revenues for service providers."

"Service providers are demanding VoIP solutions that can shorten time-to-market for enhanced communication services over NGN and IMS architectures," said Mike McHugh, vice president and general manager, BEA WebLogic Communications Platform, BEA Systems. "By bringing the BroadSoft BroadWorks solution together with the BEA WebLogic Communications Platform product family, BEA and BroadSoft will provide a feature-rich set of VoIP service enablers designed to help operators implement new revenue-generating services more rapidly and more cost-effectively."

For more information about BEA WebLogic SIP Server, and the BEA WebLogic Communications Platform, please visit http://www.bea.com/sip and http://www.bea.com/wlcom, respectively.

The BEA WebLogic Communications Platform product family, including BEA WebLogic SIP Server, is a key component of the BEA SOA 360 platform. Announced in September at BEAWorld 2006 in San Francisco, the BEA SOA 360 platform is designed to deliver the industry’s most unified SOA platform and spans all three of BEA’s product families, AquaLogic®, WebLogic®, Tuxedo and the company’s newly unveiled SOA collaborative tooling environment, BEA Workspace 360. (See Sept. 19, 2006, press release titled "BEA Announces SOA 360o; Industry’s most unified SOA Platform to transform and optimize business.")

BroadSoft’s IMS-compliant BroadWorks platform provides a comprehensive range of VoIP applications, including hosted PBX, IP Centrex, mobile PBX, business trunking and residential broadband services fully integrated into a single VoIP application platform. BroadWorks provides these applications with the reliability, redundancy, scalability and regulatory capabilities required to deliver carrier-class service.

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VoIP software giant Broadsoft has joined forces with BEA Systems, a recognized leader in enterprise and communication infrastructure software to develop and deliver latest telecom services to the customers.

The strategic alliance will integrate Broadsofts BroadWorks suite of VoIP applications with BEA WebLogic Communications Platform product family including Java EE-SIP-IMS application server. They have also agreed for the joint development, sales and marketing of IP-based solutions.

Ken Rokoff, VP of business development at BroadSoft elaborated,

This alliance brings together two industry-leading telecom application platforms, which will allow service providers to deliver BroadWorks-based fixed and mobile VoIP services with IMS enablers and capabilities that can be hosted on BEA WebLogic SIP Server.

He added,

Until today, no VoIP application platform in the market has integrated with a converged Java EE-SIP-IMS application server. This unique offering can help drive new service revenues for service providers.

With this alliance, both the companies aim at ensuring a rich set of VoIP capabilities to enable operators implement new revenue-generating services more rapidly and more cost-effectively.

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WorldxChange,one of the largest VoIP service providers of New Zealand is now the first converged IP carrier of the country with the deployment Ensim Unify solutions over BroadSofts BroadWorks hosted communication platform to activate and manage its hosted VoIP services for business and residential customers.

Ensims Unify solution has been pre-integrated with BroadSofts BroadWorks softswitch and a bunch of UC (Unified Communications) applications necessary for the fast and easier launch of a complete platform.

With fifteen pre-configured service managers for UC applications including Windows SharePoint Services, Microsoft Exchange 2003, Live Communication Server, and Faxing and Mobile Messaging, Ensim Unify facilitates creation and delivery of extra revenue-generating service bundles.

The Devices Service Manager of Ensim Unify solution enables WorldxChange to configure any type of customers SIP phones and other VoIP devices.

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Maryland-based BroadSoft, a provider of VoIP application software to fixed and mobile operators will be an integral part of the Fixed-Mobile Convergence Solution (FMC) development for the enterprises of Faroe Islands as planned by Faroese Telecom, a provider of fixed and mobile services to the islands.

Based on BroadSofts BroadWorks platform, the new service would provide a single phone number to the unlimited users of the islands to contact them on any device empowering the device with Voice applications that were previously available in the costly IP PBX.

Generally, the non-responded calls to deskphones automatically move to voicemail. However, the Fixed Mobile Convergence Solution as designed by Faroese Islands and supported by BroadSoft allows calls to deskphones to ring any or all of 10 existing numbers concurrently, e.g. mobile phone, home phone or other office etc.

This system also facilitates standard 2G mobile phones to function identically to IP extensions enabling services including unified voicemail, call transfer, call forwarding, extension dialing, integrated corporate directory and auto attendant.

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Maryland-based VoIP software developer BroadSoft and Convergence Inc, have reached out an agreement to work together for the development pre-integrated access solutions for hosted VoIP applications.

Maynard-based Convergence, which holds the record of providing a unified security and management solution for SIP based VoIP services, would work with BroadSoft and a group of other customer premises equipment and access equipment vendors to develop solutions.

These solutions would integrate equipment with hosted applications to simplify VoIP deployments.

BroadSoft would extent its Premier Access Solutions that synchronize the best technology, products and industry players for true off-the shelf integrated access solutions.

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BroadSoft, the VoIP software developer has clicked up to enter into Bangladesh VoIP market for the first time with its highly reliable BroadWorks VoIP application platform.

IMS approved BroadWorks platform would bridge the digital gap that prevails in the rural and remote areas of Bangladesh. These regions are cut off from the global convergence due to lack of telecom services.

The BroadSoft platform consists of a hosted PBX, Business Trunking, Mobile PBX and Call Center. The platform would be distributed to enterprises and residential customers nationwide by UTC Associates, a Network Integration Company and owns Bangladeshs Vonair, Inc.

Michael Tessler, CEO and President of BroadSoft states,

BroadSoft is committed to being a catalyst for improving the communications infrastructure in Bangladesh and prompting further investment and advancement of technology in this emerging market.

BroadSoft would enrich nations communications system by offering its VoIP products to nearly nine million cellular subscribers.

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DSCIs effort to provide target-oriented VoIP services in the state of Massachusetts of New England region gets a major boost with the leading VoIP service provider BroadSoft giving nod to provide software assistance to DSCI.

The Lexington, Mass- based DSCI will provide VoIP services to the midsized business enterprises throughout New England. The flexibility of BrodSofts software enables the companies to model their VoIP service as per the market demand.

Githersburg-based BroadSoft is one of the leading VoIP companies in the US. It has raised around $60 million recently and targets to expand its networking worldwide. BroadSoft has acquired Australian multimedia software company Carbon Twelve.

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