BroadSoft and Everest Broadband Networks Announce Contract for Deployment of BroadWorks-Enabled Enhanced Voice Services.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers GAITHERSBURG, Md. & FORT LEE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- March 25, 2002 Everest will use BroadSoft's Industry-Leading BroadWorks(TM) to Deliver Unique, Customized Packet-Based Services to the Small to Medium-Sized Enterprise Market BroadSoft, Inc., the leader in voice applications and servers, and Everest Broadband Networks  This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling.You can assist by [ editing it] now. , a Metropolitan Broadband Services Provider serving businesses in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , today announced that Everest has signed a contract to use BroadSoft's BroadWorks to add voice services to its portfolio of enhanced services. Everest plans to begin rolling out BroadWorks-based voice services in Q2 2002. "We selected BroadSoft because of BroadWorks' proven record as the best platform for providing enhanced 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," said Jeff Feldman, 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. , Everest. "Our relationship with BroadSoft enables Everest to drive forward with a facility-based IP voice service without the need to rely on traditional local loops. This capability furthers our commitment to meeting the communications needs of business users who demand innovative and customizable enhanced services." Everest Broadband Networks is a long term survivor in today's telecommunications market, simplifying communications for small to mid-sized businesses by providing tenants in commercial buildings with high-speed Internet See broadband. access, local and long-distance telephone service, broadband applications such as IP based access to Video Conferencing See videoconferencing. (communications) video conferencing - A discussion between two or more groups of people who are in different places but can see and hear each other using electronic communications. , Virtual Private Networking, Managed Security, Messaging, Web Conferencing A videoconferencing session via the Internet. In order to interact with other participants, attendees use either a Web application or an application downloaded into their client machines. , Web hosting Making a Web site available on the Internet. Many ISPs host a few personal Web pages for an individual at no additional cost above the monthly service fee, but the address is subordinate to the ISP; for example, www.friendlyisp.com/pat_smith. and network integration consulting and engineering services. Everest delivers these services over a state-of-the-art Metropolitan Ethernet service architecture. With BroadWorks, Everest will be able to converge local voice and long distance services over IP and offer its more than 1,000 commercial customers nationwide IP Centrex services with an extensive set of web-enabled enhanced telephony services including area wide Centrex with free on-net calling, conferencing, 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, 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. and a host of enhanced IP voice services. "We are pleased that Everest has chosen our industry-leading set of voice applications and servers to deliver innovative telephony solutions and value-added services to its customers," said Michael Tessler, President and CEO, BroadSoft. "We are confident that BroadWorks will play a vital role in helping Everest meet the market demand for enhanced and easily managed business services." 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, 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. Last year, BroadSoft announced contracts with five service provider customers who are currently deploying BroadWorks-based services to their enterprise customers. 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 Everest Broadband Networks Everest Broadband Networks simplifies communications for small to mid-sized businesses by providing small to mid-sized businesses with high-speed Internet access, local and long-distance telephone service, broadband applications and professional IT consulting and engineering services. Everest Broadband Networks is headquartered at The Everest Building, One Executive Drive, Fort Lee, New Jersey Fort Lee is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 35,461. Fort Lee was formed by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 29, 1904, from the remaining portions of Ridgefield Township. 07024. For more information, Tel: 800-918-1900. Fax: 201-944-7469. BroadSoft, BroadWorks and CommPilot are trademarks of BroadSoft, Inc. All other names are trademarks of their respective companies. |
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