Aastra expands its relationship with BroadSoft, joining the BroadSoft Premier Access Solutions Program to provide pre-integrated VoIP products for speedier service delivery and revenue generation
CONCORD, ON, CANADA, — November 28, 2006 — Aastra Telecom, a leading provider of traditional and VoIP communication products and systems, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with BroadSoft, Inc., a leading provider of VoIP application software, to provide pre-integrated access solutions for hosted VoIP applications. Aastra will join BroadSoft and a consortium of other customer premises equipment (CPE) and access equipment vendors to build solutions that integrate equipment with hosted applications to simplify the integration challenges service providers face when deploying new services.
As part of the program, BroadSoft’s Premier Access Solutions partners engage in joint product development, marketing, sales and support of the BroadWorks® VoIP application platform, and collaborate with each other to validate components with each new product release. Aastra’s complete line of standards-based SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) phones will now become an integral part of best-of-breed pre-integrated access solutions for telecommunications carriers and service providers that offer hosted VoIP services.
“Customers are looking for high quality, well integrated hardware and software solutions that add the most value to their business communications process,” said Yves Laliberte, executive vice president of sales at Aastra Telecom. “By partnering with leading providers of VoIP application software platforms, like BroadSoft, we can offer service providers and their valued customers additional flexibility and choice in the terminals they deploy with their hosted VoIP application solutions.”
“Every access component is vital in the timely delivery of new hosted voice services. That’s why we are proud to add Aastra and its SIP phones to our best-of-breed access solutions,” said Scott Hoffpauir, chief technology officer for BroadSoft. “Including Aastra phones as part of the pre-integrated solutions of the Premier Access Solutions program, service providers will be able to give end-users access to the BroadWorks VoIP platform features more quickly.”
About Aastra® SIP Phones
Aastra Telecom’s family of standards-based SIP Phones offers a powerful combination of flexibility, features and ease-of-use at a cost effective price delivering unparalleled value to the end user. The family consists of four models; the 9112i single line SIP phone, the 9133i multi-line SIP phone, the 480i multi-line SIP phone with large LCD display, and, the 480i CT multi-line SIP phone with an integrated cordless base providing VoIP cordless mobility. Designed for plug and play deployment, Aastra Telecom has incorporated the advanced functionality, reliability and proven industrial design of our analog and digital phones into all of our SIP phones. With the added flexibility of our embedded XML browser, productivity enhancing applications and information services can easily be delivered to our SIP phones allowing users to fully experience all the power VoIP brings to the desktop.
About Aastra
Aastra Telecom is a North American business unit of Aastra Technologies Limited (“Aastra”), a rapidly growing global company at the forefront of the Enterprise Communication market. Headquartered in Concord, Ontario, Canada, Aastra develops, markets, and supports a comprehensive portfolio of products, systems, and applications for building and accessing communication networks. Aastra’s products include a full range of both open-standard Internet Protocol (IP)-based and traditional networking solutions including; Enterprise Private Branch Exchanges (PBXs), gateways, digital and analog telephone terminals, VoIP telephones, wireless handsets, and advanced software applications. For more information on Aastra, please visit our Web site at www.aastratelecom.com .
About the BroadWorks Platform
BroadSoft's IMS-compliant BroadWorks® platform provides a comprehensive range of VoIP 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 BroadSoft
BroadSoft's VoIP application software is revolutionizing the delivery of hosted telephony and multimedia services. Its flagship BroadWorks® technology empowers wireless, wireline and cable 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 provides VoIP applications to 6 of the top 10 and 12 of the top 25 largest carriers worldwide, including Korea Telecom, Singtel, Sprint, Telefonica de Espana, Telstra, T-Systems, and Verizon. For additional information about BroadSoft or the BroadSoft Premier Access Solutions Program, go to www.BroadSoft.com.
Aastra® is a registered trademark of Aastra Technologies Limited.
BroadSoft and BroadWorks are registered trademarks of BroadSoft, Inc.
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