BroadSoft and PeerLinx Announce First Full-Featured Wireless Voice-Over-IP Telephone Network Service.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers SUPERCOMM 2002 Booth #11217 ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 2002 PeerLinx(TM) signs contract to use BroadSoft's Award-Winning BroadWorks(TM) to deliver Enhanced Voice Services over the PeerCom(TM) Wireless Communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. Network BroadSoft, Inc., the leading provider of voice applications and servers, and PeerLinx, Inc., the premier provider of wireless integrated voice and data services, today announced that PeerLinx is commercially deploying BroadWorks-based enhanced telephony services to its existing residential and commercial customers nationwide. "In our view, after extensive testing of competing platforms, BroadSoft's feature-rich BroadWorks platform was simply outstanding. It is the only platform that provides our customers the best of two worlds - the reliability and sound quality that telephone customers demand, plus the advanced telephony features that customers seek today," said F.W. "Woody" Boyd, 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. , PeerLinx. "With BroadWorks we can offer 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 with an extensive set of web-enabled enhanced telephony services including area wide Centrex, 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." PeerLinx's micro cellular network of U-NII U-NII Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure (bandwith for wireless LAN Networks by FCC 5.15-5.35 GHz and 5.75-5.825 GHz) band wireless technology (AstroPacket(TM)) allows the company to sell high-speed Internet See broadband. , local and long distance telephone services, monitored security and other services, all on a single wireless infrastructure. PeerCom services are billed at flat rate prices and are sold to homes and businesses in a variety of packages. "With BroadSoft, consumers and small businesses can access more advanced telephone services than they ever could before," says Boyd. "We are excited to be selected by PeerLinx," said Michael Tessler, co-founder, president and CEO, BroadSoft. "PeerLinx has the vision - and now in service, the capability - to offer competitive voice services. PeerLinx is able to deliver toll-quality telephone service at a great price over its wireless VoIP See voice over Wi-Fi. network and now, with BroadWorks-based services, its customers reap the benefits of an array of enhanced features." With PeerLinx, BroadSoft has now announced eight 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 integrated system of voice applications and servers enabling service providers to deliver basic and enhanced voice services to enterprise customers. The BroadWorks product family offers service providers a comprehensive portfolio of voice applications such as IP Centrex, 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). , 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. , and enhanced network applications. BroadWorks empowers service providers and enterprise administrators to manage administrative functions via BroadWorks' patented web-based portal, CommPilot(TM). The BroadWorks architecture offers service providers unprecedented carrier-class reliability and redundancy, scaling to support millions of subscribers and delivering 99.999% total system availability. BroadSoft will be showing a live demonstration of BroadWorks in their booth (#11217) at SUPERCOMM 2002 this week at the Georgia World Congress Center The Georgia World Congress Center or GWCC is the major convention center in Atlanta. It is the fourth-largest convention center in the United States at 1.4 million ft2 (130,000 m2) and hosts more than a million visitors each year. in Atlanta. ABOUT BROADSOFT BroadSoft, Inc., is the leading provider of 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 holds the largest market share in the IP Centrex space with eight announced customers. BroadSoft has received extensive industry acknowledgement including recognition as a "Hot Start-Up" by America's Network and Telecommunications 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. ABOUT PEERLINX PeerLinx, Inc. is a four-year-old wireless technologies corporation offering services based on the newly released unlicensed U-NII band spectrum. Using U-NII band for outdoor broadband delivery, as well as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth indoor technologies, PeerLinx's Peercom services offer services set-up and delivery anywhere, independent of Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers. On a single wireless data fabric, the company sells multiple digital services including data high speed Internet, local and long-distance telephone service, and wireless security with video monitoring. In the future, the Peercom service offering will include automatic data storage/caching, electrical power monitoring and control, and video-on-demand. PeerLinx uses proprietary and patent-pending systems for user authentication, security, signal integrity, and other U-NII and 802.11 capabilities. In operation today, PeerLinx is selling the world's first unlicensed wireless voice and data last mile solution. Visit the company's website at www.peerlinx.com. BroadSoft is a registered trademark and BroadWorks and CommPilot are trademarks of BroadSoft, Inc. PeerLinx, Peercom, and AstroPacket are trademarks of PeerLinx, Inc. All other names are trademarks of their respective companies. |
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