BroadSoft Announces that DSLi Signs Contract and Commercially Deploys BroadWorks-Enabled Voice Services.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers Spring 2002 Voice on the Net Booth #1005-1007 GAITHERSBURG, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 9, 2002 DSLi will use BroadSoft's Award-Winning BroadWorks(TM) to Add Enhanced Voice Services to its Portfolio BroadSoft, Inc., the leader in voice applications and servers, today announced that DSLi, a premier provider of integrated voice and data services, is commercially deploying BroadWorks-based enhanced telephony services to its residential and commercial customers in Miami, Palm Beach, and Orlando with plans to expand to 39 metropolitan areas throughout the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . "After evaluating a number of comparable solutions, we found that BroadSoft has the best platform for delivering easy-to-use enhanced voice services that meet our standards of high-quality, reliable and efficient communication solutions," said Mario Bustamante, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , DSLi. "We are using BroadSoft's feature-rich BroadWorks platform as the core of our voice strategy because it offers the carrier-class scalability and reliability we need to deliver always-on services to our growing customer base." DSLi is committed to providing residential and enterprise customers and tenants in commercial buildings with high-speed Internet See broadband. access and broadband data services. With BroadWorks, DSLi will be able to add an extensive set of voice services to their current data offerings over a state-of-the-art fiber optic network. DSLi will now offer its existing customers IP Centrex A telephone service in which an IP-based PBX is located in the telephone company's facilities. It connects to the customer via the LAN rather than by telephone wires. IP CENTREX offers voice over IP and other IP-based services as well as connectivity to the regular telephone system (PSTN). services including a comprehensive set of web-enabled enhanced telephony services such as conferencing See teleconferencing. , call forwarding call forwarding n. A telephone service that enables a customer to have an incoming call automatically rerouted to another extension. Noun 1. , caller ID A telephone company service that sends the caller's telephone number between the first and second ring of the call. If the calling number is not blocked, the calling number is displayed on the handset or base station of the called party. , voice mail, follow-me-anywhere calling, 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. . Additionally, BroadWorks' simplified web-enabled service provisioning will help DSLi to more rapidly and more easily deploy and manage new services. "We are very pleased to be working with DSLi to deliver enhanced voice services to its residential and enterprise customers," said Michael Tessler, co-founder, president and CEO, BroadSoft. "DSLi has a demonstrated history of successfully marketing and selling communications services and we are excited that they will be leveraging these same proven strategies to increase the penetration of BroadWorks-based services to its installed customer base." With DSLi, BroadSoft has now announced seven service providers nationwide who are using BroadWorks to add easy-to-use enhanced voice services to their service offerings. 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 provides support for media-oriented applications such as voice mail, conferencing, and auto attendant as well as personal calling functions such as selective call forwarding 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 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 will be showing a live demonstration of BroadWorks in their booth (#1005/1007) at the Spring 2002 Voice on the Net (VON) show in Washington State Convention and Trade Center The Washington State Convention and Trade Center is a convention center located next to and over Interstate 5 in downtown Seattle, Washington, adjacent to Freeway Park. Planning for its construction began in 1982; construction began in 1985, and the center opened on June 18, 1988. , April 8-11th, Seattle, WA. ABOUT BROADSOFT BroadSoft, Inc., is the leader in voice applications and servers for service providers. BroadWorks, the company's 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. , allows service providers to rapidly and economically design and deploy web-enabled enhanced telephony services to their customers. BroadSoft has received extensive industry recognition including recognition as a "Hot Start-Up" by America's Network and Telecommunications magazines, two of the leading telecommunications industry publications. BroadWorks was also recognized as Product of the Year by Communications Solutions and 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. magazines. 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 DSLi As a premier provider of integrated voice and data services, DSLi.com is combining the protection of secure application sets with the connectivity of high speed Internet access See how to access the Internet. . DSLi.com provides customized workflow application A workflow application is where various applications, components and people must be involved in the processing of data to complete an instance of a process. For example, consider a purchase order that moves through various departments for authorization and eventual purchase. sets coupled with voice services to both residential and commercial users via high speed Internet access. This strategy provides our customers with high-quality, reliable and efficient communication solutions. BroadSoft, BroadWorks and CommPilot are trademarks of BroadSoft, Inc. All other names are trademarks of their respective companies. |
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