Date: 27/03/2011

Broadsoft interop program to include mobile phones, tablets and SIP clients

BroadSoft, Inc. said it has expanded its partner interoperability program to include mobile device manufacturers and SIP voice and video clients, which support today's most popular mobile operating systems.

BroadSoft's extensive interoperability program to validate MMTel and RCS feature sets against BroadSoft's IR.92 Telephony Application Server (TAS) and also include some of today's most popular communication services, such as video, delivered by BroadWorks, BroadSoft's industry leading service delivery platform and BroadCloud, BroadSoft's hosted, cloud service delivery infrastructure.

"We are committed to providing mobile operators with the ability to offer a superior communications experience across an end-user's preferred device," said Scott Hoffpauir, chief technology officer, BroadSoft. "We are leveraging our broad interoperability experience, which spans more than a decade, to include the growing variety of mobile smartphones and tablets running today's most popular operating systems, including Android, iOS, Blackberry, WindowsPhone and Symbian."

Partners already leveraging BroadSoft's enhanced interoperability documentation and process include AudioCodes, CounterPath, Ecrio, Movial, and MobileMax.

"Ecrio communication client solutions power some of the most innovative real-time IP communication services and we believe BroadSoft's interoperability program will further simplify the rollout of next generation communication services," said Tad Bogdan, chief executive officer, Ecrio. "Ecrio has extensive experience performing interoperability in large scale commercial service deployments and we believe that BroadSoft's approach to extending their ecosystem to include client software and devices is a winning strategy."

For more information about BroadSoft's Interoperability Program, visit http://interop.broadsoft.com.