BroadSoft, Avaya Interop

BOSTON -- BroadSoft Inc., a leading provider of voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) application software, today announced at Fall 2006 VON an interoperable solution that uses its BroadWorks® SIP Trunking Solution and Avaya's one-X(tm) Quick Edition, a small business and branch office solution. The companies are conducting demos of the solution in the BroadSoft booth (Booth 1143) during the trade show.

BroadSoft's BroadWorks is an IMS-compliant application server suite that provides enhanced business and consumer communications services. Avaya one-X Quick Edition is a SIP-based, peer-to-peer communication solution that distributes PBX functionality through its phones. The joint BroadSoft-Avaya interoperable solution enables the capabilities service providers need to add new SIP-based offerings to their portfolio-helping them rapidly deploy affordable services specifically tailored for smaller firms. Avaya Inc. (NYSE:AV) is a leading global provider of business applications, systems and services.

"By working with BroadSoft, we are dramatically simplifying small business telephony and speeding time to market for service providers" said Geoffrey Baird, vice president and general manager, communications appliance division, Avaya. "Now the millions of companies with fewer than 20 employees can realize the features and cost-saving benefits of intelligent communications that were previously available only to much larger enterprises."

Cbeyond Inc. (NASDAQ: CBEY), a managed services provider that delivers integrated packages of voice, mobile and broadband services, currently has customers trialing the BroadSoft-Avaya solution. Chief Marketing Officer for Cbeyond Brooks Robinson said, "Using our BroadWorks server suite, we can offer our customers who have Avaya one-X Quick Edition a high quality, cost-effective method to connect to our network."

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