BroadSoft Chosen by Moscow's Leading Telecom Operator to Provide Russia's First Hosted VoIP Service.GAITHERSBURG, Md. -- BroadSoft's Feature-Rich and Carrier-Grade Platform Positions Comstar to Capitalize on Russia's Red Hot Market for Corporate Network Services and Pending Liberalization lib·er·al·ize v. lib·er·al·ized, lib·er·al·iz·ing, lib·er·al·iz·es v.tr. To make liberal or more liberal: "Our standards of private conduct have been greatly liberalized . . . of Residential Market BroadSoft, Inc., the leading provider of VoIP application software, today announced that Comstar United Telesystems, one of Russia's largest digital telecommunications operators and a subsidiary of Sistema (LSE LSE - Language Sensitive Editor :SSA (Serial Storage Architecture) A fault tolerant peripheral interface from IBM that transfers data at 80 and 160 Mbytes/sec. SSA uses SCSI commands, allowing existing software to drive SSA peripherals, which are typically disk drives. ), deployed BroadSoft's hosted VoIP application software to support its suite of corporate voice network services. Based on the BroadSoft(R) BroadWorks(R) platform, Comstar provides its SME (1) (Small and Medium-sized Enterprise) See SMB. (2) (Subject Matter Expert) An individual who is well-versed in the policies and procedures of a particular department or division. and large business customers all the advanced features of an IP PBX minus the cost of owning and operating one. In 2004 Sistema announced the creation of Comstar United Telesystems - the merger of three alternative telecom service providers to offer business customers a one-stop-shopping solution for all their information technology needs. By adding BroadSoft's hosted VoIP applications to its converged services package, Comstar is able to deliver to their more than 28,000 corporate customers a complete range of hosted PBX (Private Branch eXchange) An inhouse telephone switching system that interconnects telephone extensions to each other as well as to the outside telephone network (PSTN). features including audio and video conferencing, universal voice mailbox, find-me-follow-me services, automatic secretary and user-friendly web-based portals for each user. BroadWorks also supports Comstar's Voice VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. service that interlinks a company's subsidiaries into a single manageable voice corporate network. "BroadSoft's hosted voice services appeal to our customers because they support a rich set of compelling features, eliminate the need for a PBX and lower total cost of ownership," said Semen Rabovsky, general director of Comstar United Telesystems. "By supporting the IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. architecture and multiple applications on one platform, BroadSoft positions us to integrate our wireless and wireline services and move into new markets, such as residential, as regulations change and demand grows." Center of Telephony Integration (CTI (Computer Telephone Integration) Combining data with voice systems in order to enhance telephone services. For example, automatic number identification (ANI) allows a caller's records to be retrieved from the database while the call is routed to the appropriate party. ), a Russian systems Integrator and software development company specializing in IP communications, managed Comstar's deployment of the BroadWorks platform. "Comstar is empowering Russian businesses to compete with the latest communications tools that eliminate the hassle and cost of premises-based PBX systems," said Igor Maslennikov, general manager at CTI. "BroadSoft leads this industry because they enable carriers to quickly launch profitable and compelling services that address the unique needs of new markets." "Comstar is taking the lead in Russia's explosive telecommunications industry by providing businesses a comprehensive set of converged voice and data services that add value and save money," said Michael Tessler, 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. and president of BroadSoft. "We look forward to working with CTI to help Comstar grow with new services to new markets." BroadSoft's BroadWorks VoIP application platform provides a comprehensive range of advanced applications, including hosted PBX, IP Centrex, mobile PBX, business trunking and residential broadband services fully integrated into a single VoIP application platform. BroadWorks is uniquely capable of providing these applications with the reliability, redundancy, scalability and regulatory capabilities required to deliver carrier-class service. About Comstar United Telesystems Comstar United Telesystems, a major digital telecommunications operator in the Moscow Region, was founded in May 2004 on the base of three key companies: Comstar, MTU-Inform and Telmos. The company holds one of the most comprehensive license packages for communication services, has the largest resource of installed numbering capacity and the capacity of external international Internet channels (more than 1Gbps). Comstar United Telesystems possesses one of the most powerful technical resources: a Multi-Protocol Transport Network 'Next Generation Network' (NGN (Next Generation Networks) An umbrella term for mixed voice and data networks running over the IP protocol. See IP Multimedia Subsystem. ) and a Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (communications, standard) Synchronous Digital Hierarchy - (SDH) An international digital telecommunications network hierarchy which standardises transmission around the bit rate of 51.84 megabits per second, which is also called STS-1. (SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy) The European counterpart to SONET. See SONET. SDH - Synchronous Digital Hierarchy ). Additional information is available at www.comstar-uts.ru About BroadSoft BroadSoft's VoIP application software is revolutionizing the delivery of hosted telephony and multimedia services. Its flagship BroadWorks(R) 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 100 network operators, including BellSouth, MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. , Singtel, Telstra, Verizon and XO Communications leads the industry with more than 1,000,000 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. |
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