iscoord Completes Interoperability of UC Softphones With BroadSoft BroadWorks

Zurich based company iscoord (News - Alert) ag, a leading provider of award-winning Unified communications (UC) software clients, announced that its is-phone UC softphone portfolio has successfully completed interoperability testing with BroadSoft’s BroadWork platform. The completion of BroadSoft's (News - Alert) interoperability program provides mobile network operators with the knowledge that testing has been performed between the device and the services in the network.

 iscoord’s new line of UC softphones series “is-phone BroadWorks edition” is the outcome of an on-going effort to leverage the rich UC capabilities of the BroadWorks platform. This comprehensive edition encompasses enterprise telephony, HD audio and video conferencing, native CTI, CommExpress support, BroadWorks Web portal synchronization and BroadWorks remote management support.

Delighted with the accomplishment, Markus Sieger (News - Alert), CEO of iscoord said, “By completing interoperability with BroadWorks, iscoord is enabling service providers to offer their subscribers a complete, seamlessly integrated UC solution.”

He continued, “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.”

Joseph Harsch, director of product management, BroadSoft, said “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.” “One of our core strategies is to encourage interoperability testing of our BroadWorks platform with end-user devices to ensure a superior communications experience,”

Deployed in more than 425 telecommunications service providers’ networks BroadSoft is the leading, worldwide innovator of residential and business Voice over IP (VoIP) applications. For over 10 years BroadSoft has been at the forefront of IP technology, helping to advance the convergence of voice, video and data.

“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.”