4th Largest Australian ISP Selects BroadSoft to Power Residential VoIP Services

4th Largest Australian ISP Selects BroadSoft to Power Residential VoIP Services

iiNet Selects BroadSoft for Its Scalability, Manageability and Rich Feature Sets

GAITHERSBURG, Md., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- BroadSoft(R), the world's premier provider of VoIP application software, today announced that iiNet Limited has selected BroadSoft's BroadWorks(R) VoIP application software to support its residential VoIP offering. Mixing the latest in advanced features with competitive pricing, iiNet's VoIP service will launch in Australia by mid year.

"VoIP, or Internet telephony, is the next generation of communications, and allows customers to make significant savings on their long distance and international phone calls," said Greg Bader, chief technology officer, iiNet. "We chose the BroadWorks technology as the platform for our VoIP product for its scalability, and the easy-to-use advanced features."

"We're proud to be chosen by iiNet, one of the largest ISPs in Australia and New Zealand," said Michael Tessler, president and CEO at BroadSoft. "This latest customer win further validates BroadSoft's position as the leading residential VoIP platform. BroadWorks keeps our customers ahead of the competition by providing an open architecture that scales to support millions of users and an ever-evolving list of new and exciting features."

iiNet's VoIP service will enable home users to realize significant savings on their monthly telephone bills, by using IP networks instead of the telephone network for making calls. Some of the additional features that iiNet VoIP customers can receive include:

* Retrieval of voice messages from any phone or email account;
* Automatic dialing from Microsoft Outlook to key contacts;
* Video calls that can be integrated into a traditional phone call;
* Forwarding selected incoming calls to voicemail, email or another
phone;
* Distinctive ring tones for incoming calls.



BroadSoft's BroadWorks provides a comprehensive range of VoIP applications, including hosted PBX, business trunking, residential broadband, hosted key system and IP multimedia services fully integrated into a single hosted communications platform. BroadWorks is uniquely capable of providing these applications with the reliability, redundancy, scalability and regulatory capabilities required to deliver carrier-class service.

ABOUT iiNET

iiNet is one of Australia's Internet service pioneers, having begun in Western Australia in 1993. At June 30, 2004, iiNet was the fourth largest Internet Service Provider in Australia, offering dialup, broadband, phone and voice services. iiNet has built a reputation for providing innovative, quality and value Internet products, and friendly 24-hour customer service and support. For more information on iiNet, please visit http://www.iinet.net.au/ or call +61-8-9213-1917.

ABOUT BROADSOFT

BroadSoft's VoIP application software is revolutionizing the delivery of hosted telephony and multimedia services. Its flagship BroadWorks(R) technology empowers wireless and wireline 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's customer base of more than 90 network operators, including Alltel, BellSouth, MCI and Telstra, leads the industry with more than 750,000 lines deployed. Additional information is available at http://www.broadsoft.com/.

BroadSoft and BroadWorks are registered trademarks of BroadSoft, Inc. All other names are trademarks of their respective companies.


Source: BroadSoft

CONTACT: Cameron Smith of Calysto Communications, +1-404-266-2060, ext.
19, csmith@calysto.com, for BroadSoft; or Hilary Tomasson of BroadSoft,
+1-240-364-5147, htomasson@broadsoft.com

Web site: http://www.broadsoft.com/
http://www.iinet.net.au/


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