BroadSoft's service delivery system will operate with Tekelec's softswitch to let service providers offer Web-enabled telephony features including call forwarding, conferencing, and voice mail.

by Wayne Kawamoto [June 11, 2001]

BroadSoft, a provider of delivery systems for enhanced telephony services, and Tekelec, a developer of packet-telephony solutions, announced that the companies will deliver enhanced, Web-enabled telephony services over converged voice and data networks for service providers.

More specifically, BroadSoft's BroadWorks will work with Tekelec's VXi softswitch to offer an end-to-end packet-telephony solution for the service provider market. BroadSoft's BroadWorks is a service delivery system that enables service providers to offer Web-enabled enhanced telephony services. According to BroadWorks, its platform cuts across circuit and packet technologies, allowing service providers to roll out packet-based telephony services such as call forwarding, call waiting, conferencing, and voice mail, as well as auto-attendant and follow-me-anywhere services, with only incremental investment to the network infrastructure.

The Tekelec equipment provides the infrastructure, call control, signaling, and provisioning capabilities, while BroadSoft provides the platform that allows the delivery of IP services. When released, the joint BroadSoft-Tekelec solution should support multiple protocols and provide mediation between different network types, such as IP, ATM, and TDM.

The companies recently completed successful interoperability testing between BroadSoft's BroadWorks service delivery system and Tekelec's VXi Media Gateway Controller.

"Tekelec's experience and reputation for delivering carrier-class, packet-telephony solutions to the telecommunications market, combined with BroadWorks' award-winning suite of enhanced telephony services, will enable service providers to quickly deploy and offer differentiated services that will help attract new customers as well as retain existing ones," said Scott Wharton, vice president of marketing for BroadSoft. "We're very excited to be working with a market leader such as Tekelec to help speed the deployment of new and innovative communication services."

"In partnering with vendors such as BroadSoft, we are able to help carriers and providers realize the promise of packet telephony by enabling them to deliver a full range of voice and data services," said Paul Miller, Tekelec's vice president of Packet Telephony.

Availability and pricing
Tekelec's Media Gateway Controller and BroadSoft's Service Creation Platform are currently interoperable and will become generally available in Q3. Pricing information was not available at press time.

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