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VoIP application software provider BroadSoft (News - Alert) announced Wednesday that it was tapped by Faroese Telecom to deploy a fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) service for enterprises in the Faroese islands.

 

The new service is based on the BroadSoft BroadWorks platform. It will enable users to utilize a single phone number which contacts them on any device and also equips the device with voice applications traditionally available only on more expensive IP PBX systems.

 

The Faroese Telecom FMC service will allow deskphone calls to ring any or all of 10 preset numbers (mobile phone, home/office phone) simultaneously.

 

The system also allows for standard 2G mobile phones to function just like IP extensions, therefore enabling services such as unified voicemail, call transfer, call forwarding, extension dialing, integrated corporate directory and auto-attendant. These features can be configured by the user via a desktop toolbar.

 

“Leaving your deskphone has traditionally been a risky business; there is the ever-present possibility that you can miss calls and voicemails and, consequently, business opportunities, too,” said Faroese Telecom's managing director, Richard Mortensen, in a statement.

 

Mortensen continued: “Now you can have a single number that finds you on any device. Whether that device is fixed or mobile, it offers the same functionality as a top range IP handset. We fully expect this service to revolutionize our customers' communications experience.”

 

The system also offers standard hosted PBX (News - Alert) (IP Centrex) services. This eliminates the need for a PBX, and Business Trunking (IP Trunking) services, therefore allowing the new applications to be overlaid onto existing PBX infrastructure. Faroese Telecom has plans to target businesses of varying sizes on the Faroe Islands for its FMC services.

 

“Faroese Telecom's new FMC service is a leap ahead into the future telecommunications landscape,” stated BroadSoft's president and CEO Michael Tessler. “The business communications of tomorrow must be a converged service that is fully personalized, simply amended and allows the full power of VoIP applications on any device anywhere.”

 

Tessler added: “BroadSoft is very proud to have found an ally who shares a common vision of how communications ought to be.”

 

Today's news follows BroadSoft's announcement about its BroadWorks platform now being interoperable with 3Com's converged network systems. The move will enable the companies to make available an offering for service providers which will allow them to streamline the delivery of hosted VoIP at the customer site.

 

3Com's (News - Alert) suite of switches, routers, IP phones, security and wireless solutions support VoIP traffic. The partnership announced today will give service providers an opportunity to offer small and medium-sized businesses a hosted VoIP system based on 3Com's products, supporting BroadWorks' platform. The integrated 3Com portfolio will also enable service providers to proactively diagnose problems to prevent outages.

 

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