[June 4, 2002]

BroadSoft Expands To Asia-Pacific With Fujitsu Agreement

BroadSoft, Inc., a provider of voice applications and servers, announced it is expanding its global reach to the service providers in the Asia-Pacific region through a strategic agreement with Singapore-based Fujitsu Asia Pte Ltd, an international telecommunications solutions providers.

Under this agreement, Fujitsu Asia will resell BroadSoft's flagship product BroadWorks throughout the Asia-Pacific region as well as provide system integration, technical support, and total network deployment support.

Fujitsu Asia will offer BroadWorks as a key component of their next-generation network solution suite, delivering a rich portfolio of enhanced voice services to its large service provider installed base in Asia-Pacific region. Fujitsu Asia will also build and staff a BroadWorks center of excellence in Singapore.

"Our partnership with BroadSoft and the addition of the innovative, carrier-class services available with BroadWorks are of strategic importance to our customers and our company. Using BroadWorks, we can now offer customers the most reliable and the widest array of both traditional and enhanced packet-based services available today," says Chng Teo-Hye, chairman and co-CEO of Fujitsu Asia. "We are committed to providing our customers best-of-breed services by partnering with industry leaders; our partnership with BroadSoft underscores this commitment. We believe that strong partnerships are key to our overall success, particularly our international expansion."

Fujitsu Asia is a major business and engineering hub for the Fujitsu telecommunications switching business in the Asia-Pacific region. Fujitsu's Fetex-150 central office switching system is one of the most popular systems being deployed by major public telephone operators in the region.

Fujitsu Asia has established a large software R&D center specializing in developing features for Fetex-150 switching system and other voice, data and mobile solutions. Fujitsu Asia is also a major IP Network Integrator offering best-of-breed products and services to customers in the region.

Converged voice and data network solutions that are available include IP telephony, multi-modal conferencing, unified messaging, and voice recognition systems.

"BroadSoft's ability to realize success in the Asia-Pacific region has been greatly strengthened by allying with Fujitsu, the switch provider of choice for many of the leading service providers in this region," said Michael Tessler, co-founder, president, and CEO of BroadSoft. "The Asia-Pacific marketplace presents a major opportunity for BroadSoft as we are already engaged in trials in the region. We are confident that leveraging the Fujitsu name and innovative technology can bring these leads to fruition."

BroadWorks is the industry's first integrated system of voice applications and servers enabling service providers to deliver basic and enhanced voice services to enterprise customers. The BroadWorks product family offers service providers a comprehensive portfolio of voice applications such as IP Centrex, hosted PBX, Voice VPN, and enhanced network applications.

BroadWorks empowers service providers and enterprise administrators to manage administrative functions via BroadWorks' patented web-based portal, CommPilot. The BroadWorks architecture offers service providers unprecedented carrier-class reliability and redundancy, scaling to support millions of subscribers and delivering 99.999% total system availability.

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