BroadSoft's BroadWorks Named Voice Server `Product of the Year' by Leading Industry Publication, Network Magazine; Award Recognizes BroadSoft's Market Leadership and Technology Innovation.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers GAITHERSBURG, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 23, 2002 BroadSoft, Inc., the leading provider of voice applications and servers, today announced that its flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , BroadWorks, has been honored with Network Magazine's prestigious `Product of the Year' award in the category of Telephony Meaning "sound over distance," it refers to electronically transmitting the human voice. In the beginning, telephony dealt only with analog signals in the circuit-switched networks of the telephone companies. and Messaging. BroadWorks was named the best Voice Server product in the category. CMP's Network Magazine annually recognizes the hard work and thought leadership of the companies that have successfully delivered innovative products. BroadSoft was selected to receive this honor As a verb, to accept a bill of exchange, or to pay a note, check, or accepted bill, at maturity. To pay or to accept and pay, or, where a credit so engages, to purchase or discount a draft complying with the terms of the draft. by the publication's editors, who consulted industry analysts, vendors, and customers before selecting the companies that they view as impacting the industry through product innovation. Previous `product of the year' winners include such industry leaders as Cisco, Microsoft, and Nortel Networks (Nortel Networks Limited, Brampton, Ontario, www.nortelnetworks.com) A world leader in telecommunications products, which includes switching, wireless and broadband systems for service providers and carriers, telephones and systems for residential and business users, computer telephony . The list of this year's winners is featured in the May 2002 issue of Network Magazine. Recognized as one of the networking industry's longest running awards programs, Network Magazine's Product of the Year Awards are given to the products and services in the networking market deemed by the editors as most significant to the magazine's readers and industry experts. "The Product of the Year Awards have become an industry tradition and are eagerly anticipated each year by Network Magazine readers," said Steve Steinke, editor in chief. BroadWorks is the industry's first complete set of integrated voice applications and servers designed to enable service providers to deliver basic and enhanced voice services to enterprises of any size. The BroadWorks product family offers carrier class scalability and reliability, enabling service providers to offer a comprehensive portfolio of voice applications such as voice mail, conferencing See teleconferencing. , and auto attendant The part of an interactive voice response (IVR) system that replaces the human operator and directs callers to the appropriate extensions or voice mailboxes. See IVR. as well as personal calling functions such as selective call forwarding call forwarding n. A telephone service that enables a customer to have an incoming call automatically rerouted to another extension. Noun 1. and notification, call transfer, and simultaneous ringing. In addition to the comprehensive set of services, BroadWorks empowers service providers and enterprise administrators with the ability to use the web to conduct administrative functions via BroadWorks' web-based portal, CommPilot(TM). CommPilot provides an alternative user interface for enhanced services Enhanced service is service offered over commercial carrier transmission facilities used in interstate communications, that employs computer processing applications that act on the format, content, code, protocol, or similar aspects of the subscriber's transmitted information; , replacing the cumbersome cum·ber·some adj. 1. Difficult to handle because of weight or bulk. See Synonyms at heavy. 2. Troublesome or onerous. cum flash-hook and star codes of a standard phone. For administration, patent-pending CommPilot provides multiple tiers of intuitive, easy-to-use web interfaces that simplify configuration and management of services for the end-user, group administrator, and service provider. BroadSoft has now announced seven service providers who are using BroadWorks to add easy-to-use enhanced voice services to their service offerings. "We are very proud that Network Magazine has names BroadWorks the best offering in the voice server market," said Scott Wharton, vice president of marketing for BroadSoft. "This award further validates BroadSoft's market leadership and commitment to delivering the most feature-rich and innovative portfolio of enhanced voice services." ABOUT NETWORK MAGAZINE Monthly networking publication Network Magazine - Where the Enterprise Meets the New Public Network - supplies 200,000 worldwide networking/IT buyers--consisting of network/IT managers at corporate enterprises, carriers and service providers, and outsource partner organizations--with in-depth technical information for direct purchasing decisions of mission-critical networking products and services. ABOUT CMP CMP (cytidine monophosphate): see cytosine. (1) (CMP Media LLC, Manhasset, NY, www.cmp.com) Part of United Business Media, CMP is a leading integrated media company that offers a wide variety of publications and services in the information Media LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control CMP Media LLC (www.cmp.com) is a leading high-tech media company providing essential information and marketing services to the entire technology spectrum - the builders, sellers and users of technology worldwide. Capitalizing on its editorial strength, CMP is uniquely positioned to offer marketers comprehensive, integrated media solutions tailored to meet their individual needs. Its diverse products and services include newspapers, magazines, Internet products, research, direct marketing services, education and training, trade shows and conferences, custom publishing, testing and consulting. 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 seven announced customers. BroadSoft has received extensive industry acknowledgement including recognition as a "Hot Start-Up" by America's Network and Telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. magazines, two of the leading telecommunications industry publications. Communications Solutions, Internet Telephony Another term for IP telephony and VoIP. In the late 1990s, some people made a distinction between Internet Telephony and VoIP: Internet telephony referred to voice over the public Internet, while VoIP referred to voice over private IP networks. 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. BroadSoft, BroadWorks and CommPilot are trademarks of BroadSoft, Inc. All other names are trademarks of their respective companies. |
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