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Grandstream Has UC Enabled its color-screen series GXP IP Phones by Completing Interoperability with BroadSoft's UC-One Services
[June 12, 2014]

Grandstream Has UC Enabled its color-screen series GXP IP Phones by Completing Interoperability with BroadSoft's UC-One Services


BOSTON & GAITHERSBURG, Md. --(Business Wire)--

Grandstream Networks and BroadSoft, Inc. (NASDAQ: BSFT) today announced interoperability of Grandstream's color-screen series GXP IP Phones with BroadSoft's (News - Alert) UC-One® platform. By integrating BroadSoft's unified communications services with Grandstream's GXP2130, GXP2140 and GXP2160 Enterprise IP Phones, BroadSoft customers can further enhance the productivity benefits of the business offerings.

Grandstream's color-screen series GXP IP Phones - the GXP2130, GXP2140 and GXP2160 - offer vibrant full-color displays to provide a seamless and enjoyable user experience at a market-leading price point. The GXP2160 and GXP2140 are designed for users with high call volumes, as the 6-line GXP2160 offers 24 dual-color BLF/extension keys and the 4-line GXP2140 is compatible with up to four GXP2200 BLF Extension Modules. Both the GXP2160 and GXP2140 feature integrated Bluetooth, which not only allows for hands-free functionality via a Bluetooth device, but also for syncing a mobile phone's contacts as well as answering a synched mobile phone's call. The 3-line GXP2130 is ideal for standard users while also incorporating robust features such as 4-way conferencing. The GX2130, GXP2140, and GXP2160 all include a full suiteof advanced IP telephony features, including dual Gigabit ports, PoE, HD audio, multi-person conferencing, Electronic Hook Switch (EHS), and more.



BroadSoft's UC-One is a comprehensive, open Unified Communications platform that combines all of the critical elements telecommunications service providers require to ensure the rapid delivery of their Unified Communications solutions. UC-One helps service providers design and introduce a wide-range of successful communications solutions for the market segments they serve. By completing interoperability, UC-One users will have access to their business directory, call history and contact presence indicator on their Grandstream color-screen series GXP IP Phones.

"We're excited to further expand our long-term partnership with BroadSoft by certifying our new Enterprise phones with their UC-One platform," said David Li (News - Alert), CEO of Grandstream Networks. "Our cost-effective color-screen series GXP Enterprise IP Phones provide BroadSoft partners and resellers with advanced and easily managed VoIP calling."


"We have enjoyed a long standing relationship with Grandstream and we continue to work closely to design solutions that strengthen the benefits and capabilities of our service provider customer's unified communications offers," said Leslie Ferry (News - Alert), vice president marketing, BroadSoft. "By providing access to our unified communications services on Grandstream's GXP Enterprise IP Phones, we are offering users greater flexibility in how they can access their UC services."

About Grandstream Networks (News - Alert)

Founded in 2002, Grandstream Networks is the leading manufacturer of IP voice/video telephony and video surveillance solutions. Grandstream serves the SMB and consumer markets with innovative products that lower communication costs, increase security protection, and enhance productivity. Our open standard SIP-based products offer broad interoperability in the industry, unrivaled features, flexibility, and price-performance competitiveness. Visit www.grandstream.com for more information or connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

About BroadSoft

BroadSoft is the leading provider of software and services that enable mobile, fixed-line and cable service providers to offer Unified Communications over their Internet Protocol network. The Company's core communications platform enables the delivery of a range of enterprise and consumer calling, messaging and collaboration communication services, including private branch exchanges, video calling, text messaging and converged mobile and fixed-line services.

Forward Looking Statements (BroadSoft)

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements may be identified by their use of terms and phrases such as "can," "will" and other similar terms and phrases and include, among others, statements regarding the interoperability testing results and the benefits of the Grandstream telephones to BroadSoft customers. The outcome of the events described in these forward-looking statements is subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results anticipated by these forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, whether the interoperability of the BroadSoft's UC-One platform and the Grandstream telephones will result in increased revenues for BroadSoft, as well as those factors contained in the "Risk Factors" sections of the Company's Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC (News - Alert), on February 28, 2014, and in the Company's other filings with the SEC. All information in this release is as of June 12, 2014. Except as required by law, BroadSoft undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statement made herein for any reason to conform the statement to actual results or changes in its expectations.


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