Stage 2 Networks and BroadSoft Develop Enhanced Call Screening

New Feature Creates Enhanced Functionality for Hosted PBX Customers

New York, NY (April 27, 2009) - Stage 2 Networks, a leader in hosted PBX solutions, today announced that it will be offering an Enhanced Call Screening feature for its hosted PBX service. Stage 2 originally purchased a Hosted PBX solution from BroadSoft®, the leading worldwide provider of VoIP applications. Leveraging BroadSoft's Web services, both companies worked together to develop an Enhanced Call Screening feature that will be offered to Stage 2's customers as an additional service attribute.

A typical Call Screening feature allows a party receiving a phone call to hear the identification of a caller without human intervention, when the system identifies a 10-digit phone number in Caller ID. The caller would speak his name when prompted and the receiving party would hear the name and choose whether to answer the call or let it ring into voicemail. However, Stage 2 had a customer specification of the Call Screening function requiring the caller's name to be announced, even when the system identifies the 10-digit phone number as "Anonymous" or "Private".

"The power and extensibility inherent in BroadSoft's BroadWorks® platform enabled us to quickly and easily accommodate our customer's requirement. BroadSoft was extremely responsive to our need and collaborated with us to develop the new functionality," said Joseph P. Gillette, president and CEO of Stage 2 Networks. "Without BroadWorks' robust capabilities, we would have had to go off of our network and pay additional 3rd party fees to offer this function to our customers, and thus increasing the monthly cost of service for the end user. Using Xsi-Media, BroadSoft's standards-compliant VoiceXML/ccXML capabilities, Stage 2 engineers quickly modified the specific functionality of the software."

"BroadSoft is responsive to our customers' requirements, which is why we created BroadSoft Xtended, a program that enables developers and our service provider customers to share code and platform enhancements," said Leslie Ferry, vice president of marketing at BroadSoft. "Stage 2 took our Xsi-Media solution, modified it and went to market with an Enhanced Call Screening solution in an extremely short time."

To learn more about BroadSoft's Xtended Developers program, the Xtended Services Interface (Xsi) APIs and Xsi-Media, please visit www.developer.broadsoft.com.

Stage 2 continually strives to add and/or replace as much user functionality as possible. As evidenced, the Enhanced Call Screening feature now works on every incoming call regardless of whether the system recognizes a caller's phone number.

About Stage 2 Networks
Stage 2 offers a robust and redundant network with connectivity, quality of service and local number portability available across the country and, often, around the world. Our services include hosted PBX service, a business phone system solution without the capital expenditure typically associated with purchasing a new phone system. Stage 2 also provides phone line replacement at reduced cost with enhanced functionality, whether POTS or PRI services. Finally, all of Stage 2's products are supported by robust data connectivity that can fully integrate its customers' communication platform for both voice and data services across multiple locations. Stage 2's productivity-enhancing features and functionality serve to differentiate its products and offer an added bonus to its customers.

About BroadSoft
BroadSoft® provides VoIP application software that enables the delivery of hosted telephony and multimedia services. After the 2008 acquisitions of Sylantro and the GENBAND M6 product line, BroadSoft has emerged as the undisputed market leader of VoIP application servers. BroadSoft's family of carrier-class products, including its award-winning flagship BroadWorks® technology, empowers wireless, wireline and cable carriers to deliver next-generation voice and multimedia applications and advanced features that enable them to increase revenue, enhance competitive differentiation and elevate customer satisfaction. BroadSoft's products deliver the scale, open architecture and reliability that the world's leading telecommunications companies demand to serve mission-critical enterprise and residential broadband customers. BroadSoft provides VoIP applications to eight of the top 10 and 14 of the top 25 largest carriers worldwide, as measured by recent annual revenue, including KPN, Korea Telecom, Qwest, SingTel, Sprint, Swisscom, Telefonica de Espana, Telstra, T-Systems, and Verizon. For additional information, go to www.BroadSoft.com.