(pressebox) Zürich, 31.03.2011 – iscoord ag, a leading provider of award-winning Unified Communications (UC) software clients, today announced that its is-phone UC softphone portfolio has successfully completed interoperability testing with BroadSoft’s BroadWorks® platform. In an on-going effort to leverage the rich UC capabilities of the BroadWorks platform, iscoord has launched a new line of UC softphones – „is-phone BroadWorks edition“ series – which include enterprise telephony, HD audio and video conferencing, native CTI, CommExpress support, BroadWorks web portal synchronization and BroadWorks remote management support.
„More and more service providers are facing the erosion of their voice revenues, looking to introduce new services like instant messaging, enterprise telephony, conferencing or presence“ said Markus Sieger, CEO of iscoord. „By completing interoperability with BroadWorks, iscoord is enabling service providers to offer their subscribers a complete, seamlessly integrated UC solution.“
„We are underscoring the BroadWorks’s platform ability to bring rich enterprise telephony capabilities directly to the end-user“ said Rolf Kuster, CTO of iscoord. „To complement the BroadWorks platform, we implemented extensions like telephony presence, HD video conferencing, messaging services and file transfer, providing a richer communications experience for the end-users utilizing BroadWorks.“
„One of our core strategies is to encourage interoperability testing of our BroadWorks platform with end-user devices to ensure a superior communications experience,“ said Joseph Harsch, Director of Product Management, BroadSoft. „We believe devices such as the iscoord UC Softphone with its broad UC capabilities, when used with the BroadWorks platform, will help service providers differentiate their offerings and to reach new market segments.“
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BroadSoft provides software that enables fixed-line, mobile and cable service providers to deliver voice and multimedia services over their IP-based networks. The Company’s software, BroadWorks®, enables service providers to provide enterprises and consumers with a range of cloud-based, or hosted, IP multimedia communications, such as hosted IP private branch exchanges, video calling, unified communications, collaboration and converged mobile and fixed-line services.