BroadSoft and Siemens Deliver SIP Interoperability.Business Editors/Technology Writers RESTON, Va. & GAITHERSBURG, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 5, 2001 Interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. Enables Enterprises to Use Siemens SIP Desktop Phones to Leverage BroadSoft's Web-Enabled Enhanced Telephony Services Siemens Enterprise Networks LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , a subsidiary of Siemens AG Siemens AG German electrical-equipment manufacturer. The first Siemens company, Siemens & Halske, was founded in Berlin in 1847 to build telegraph installations. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :SI) and a leading provider of converged voice and data solutions, and BroadSoft, Inc., the leading provider of service delivery systems for enhanced telephony services, announce that BroadSoft has successfully completed interoperability testing between BroadSoft's BroadWorks(TM) service delivery system and Siemens optiPoint(TM) 100 advance SIP (Session Initiation Protocol (protocol) Session Initiation Protocol - (SIP) A very simple text-based application-layer control protocol. It creates, modifies, and terminates sessions with one or more participants. Such sessions include Internet telephony and multimedia conferences. It is described in RFC 2543. ) telephone. Service providers using BroadSoft's award-winning service delivery system can now offer Siemens highly reliable and globally distributed IP phones as a part of their complete voice over IP offering. Interoperability between BroadSoft's BroadWorks and Siemens optiPoint 100 advance telephone broadens access choices available to enterprises and furnishes service providers with the means to rapidly deliver new telephony services for expanded market penetration Noun 1. market penetration - the extent to which a product is recognized and bought by customers in a particular market penetration - the act of entering into or through something; "the penetration of upper management by women" . The addition of SIP functionality extends the capabilities of Siemens award-winning optiPoint telephone product line, already available with H.323, H.450 and Siemens own HFA HFA Harvard Film Archive (Harvard University) HFA Harry Fox Agency, Inc. HFA Housing Finance Agency (District of Columbia government) HFA Hyogo Framework for Action HFA High-Functioning Autism (Hicom(R) Feature Access) protocol support. Reliable as well as robust, this family of telephones is modular, feature-rich and easy to upgrade, even from a remote location. The optiPoint IP phones are available globally through Siemens distributors and resellers. "As service providers evolve their business telephony services to meet customer demands for the more innovative and cost-effective services enabled by IP technology, users will benefit from Siemens telephone and telephony experience, which is far more extensive than other IP telephone manufacturers," said Bob Thompson, vice president of HiPath(TM) corporate solutions for Siemens. "By achieving interoperability, BroadSoft and Siemens deliver on the promise of open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced in voice communications." BroadWorks is the industry's first complete service delivery system that enables service providers to offer a rich set of web-enabled user-friendly enhanced telephony services. BroadWorks' platform cuts across circuit and packet technologies, allowing service providers to roll out packet-based telephony services with incremental Additional or increased growth, bulk, quantity, number, or value; enlarged. Incremental cost is additional or increased cost of an item or service apart from its actual cost. investment to their network infrastructure. The BroadWorks services portfolio includes Centrex services such as call waiting, conferencing and voice mail, auto-attendant and follow-me-anywhere services; new services such as instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or ; and integration with key business tools such as Outlook and Palm OS-based hand-held devices. These services can be customized and managed via BroadWorks' web-based portal, CommPilot(TM), which 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 flash-hook and star codes of a standard phone. "BroadSoft's interoperability with Siemens optiPoint 100 advance telephone is good news for business users," said Scott Wharton, vice president of marketing at BroadSoft. "The optiPoint 100 advance telephone is the ideal desktop complement to our BroadWorks system and its media-oriented applications, such as conferencing, voice mail, auto-attendant and other IVR (Interactive Voice Response) An automated telephone information system that speaks to the caller with a combination of fixed voice menus and data extracted from databases in real time. applications, and we are pleased to be working with Siemens to transform the way telephony services are provided and consumed." The optiPoint 100 advance is available today and can be ordered from the following distributors: Ingram Micro Ingram Micro, Inc. NYSE: IM a Fortune 100 company founded in 1979 and based in Santa Ana, California. It is the world’s largest technology distributor and a leading technology sales, marketing and logistics company. (http://www.ingrammicro.com), Tech Data (http://www.techdata.com), Target Distributing (http://www.targetd.com), and DistributorWorks, LLC (http://www.distributorworks.com.). More information about the optiPoint 100 advance telephone and other Siemens IP telephone products is available at http://www.icn.siemens.com/desktops/. About BroadSoft BroadSoft, Inc., is the leading provider of service delivery systems for next-generation telephony services. 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 magazine. 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 http://www.broadsoft.com. About Siemens Based in Boca Raton Boca Raton (bō`kə rətōn`), city (1990 pop. 61,492), Palm Beach co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic; inc. 1925. Boca Raton is a popular resort and retirement community that experienced significant industrial development in the 1970s and 80s. , Fla., Siemens Information and Communication Networks, Inc., with its subsidiaries Siemens Carrier Networks LLC, Siemens Enterprise Networks LLC and Optisphere Networks Inc., is a leading provider of integrated voice and data networks and solutions for enterprises, carriers and service providers. Siemens AG, headquartered in Munich, is a leading global electronics and engineering company. It employs over 460,000 people in 193 countries, and reported worldwide sales in excess of $74 billion in fiscal 2000 (10/1/99 - 9/30/00). 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. is Siemens largest market, with 85,000 employees and sales of more than $17 billion in fiscal 2000. Siemens is a leading provider of advanced technology solutions in the information and communications, medical, power, automation and control, transportation and lighting sectors, and leverages its global network of innovation and unparalleled technological heritage to deliver business results for Siemens customers around the globe. This release contains forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. based on beliefs of Siemens management. The words "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "forecast," "expect," "intend," "plan," "should," and "project" are used to identify forward-looking statements. Such statements reflect the company's current views with respect to future events and are subject to risks and uncertainties. Many factors could cause the actual results to be materially different, including, among others, changes in general economic and business conditions, changes in currency exchange rates and interest rates, introduction of competing products, lack of acceptance of new products or services and changes in business strategy. Actual results may vary materially from those projected here. Siemens does not intend or assume any obligation to update these forward-looking statements. BroadSoft, BroadWorks and CommPilot are trademarks of BroadSoft, Inc. Hicom is a registered trademark, and HiPath and optiPoint are trademarks of Siemens AG. Other trademarks are the property of their respective holders. |
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