First Russian Hosted PBX strengthens BroadSoft's market position in Eastern Europe; National Telecom Operator leverages BroadWorks platform to provide added value through voice.

M2 PRESSWIRE-30 May 2006-BroadSoft Inc: First Russian Hosted PBX strengthens BroadSoft's market position in Eastern Europe; National Telecom Operator leverages BroadWorks platform to provide added value through voice(C)1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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Gaithersburg, Maryland - BroadSoft Inc, the leading provider of VoIP application software, today announced that Russian national operator RTComm, has selected BroadSoft's BroadWorks VoIP application platform to deliver the first hosted PBX services to the Russian marketplace. RTComm will use the BroadWorks platform to assist service providers in opening up a new market for affordable IP based corporate triple-play applications and hosted PBX services.

RTComm will offer BroadWorks' hosted PBX applications to service providers as part of its corporate over IP (CoIP) product, helping them to deliver a complete suite of enhanced PBX functionality over an IP connection to their customers. Correspondingly, end-users will benefit from flexible communications capability throughout the enterprise and access to true business-grade triple-play services at highly economical rates.

"RTComm joins the large number of incumbent service providers using BroadSoft's VoIP application platform to offer the first compelling hosted PBX opportunity in their home market. As businesses realise that they don't necessarily need to rip out their old systems and build a new one from scratch in order to enjoy a wealth of feature-rich VoIP applications that will help profitability and productivity levels on a daily basis, we expect RTComm to see an upsurge in demand from a cross-section of enterprise users," explained Michael Tessler, President and Chief Executive Officer for BroadSoft. "RTComm leads the market in Eastern Europe by deploying the BroadWorks platform to offer the most valuable and vital voice services to business consumers for increased productivity and efficiency in communications."

About RTCOMM

RTCOMM (Synterra Group) is one of the leading companies in the Russian telecommunications market and has extensive experience in operating in a modern and competitive communication market. RTCOMM has the most developed IP-network in Russia with access points in 150+ cities, the international backbone PoPs is London, Frankfurt and Riga, over 80 gateways to local access networks in Russian regions and over 1000 customers: national and international carriers, oil and metal holdings, banks and financial companies, etc. RTComm offers Internet wholesale services for Russian and CIS ISPs, VPN services (Layer 3, Layer 2, Layer 1) for business customers, VoIP services for business customers, Wi-Fi and videoconference Centrex solutions for fast start customer sites, Data Centers facilities and Managed service solutions.

Additional information is available at www.rtcomm.ru

About BroadSoft

BroadSoft's VoIP application software is revolutionizing the delivery of hosted telephony and multimedia services. Its flagship BroadWorks technology empowers wireless and wireline carriers to deliver next-generation voice and multimedia applications and advanced features that increase revenue, enhance competitive differentiation and elevate customer satisfaction. BroadSoft's family of carrier-class software products delivers the scale, open architecture and reliability that the world's leading telecommunications companies demand to serve mission-critical enterprise and residential broadband customers. BroadSoft's leads the VoIP applications market with 6 of the top 10, and 11 of the top 25, largest carriers worldwide including BellSouth, Korea Telecom, Singtel, Telefonica de Espana, Telstra, T-Systems, Verizon and XO Communications. Additional information is available at www.broadsoft.com.

BroadSoft and BroadWorks are registered trademarks of BroadSoft, Inc. All other names are trademarks of their respective companies.

CONTACT: Hilary Tomasson, BroadSoftTel: +1 240 364 5147e-mail: htomasson@broadsoft.com

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