BroadSoft (News - Alert) Inc., a provider of VoIP application software, has announced that it has successfully completed a demonstration of the scalability of the BroadWorks Voice over IP (VoIP) application platform with IBM (News - Alert) BladeCenter HT.

 

During a recent series of tests at the IBM PSSC Network Transformation Center in Montpellier, France, BroadSoft showed its BroadWorks platform is capable of handling 20 million users and up to 40 million Busy Hour Call Attempts (BHCAs) on the IBM BladeCenter HT.

 

BroadSoft states that the Montpellier demonstration was held for multiple Tier 1 telecommunications customers as a proof of concept to demonstrate the scalability and reliability service providers can expect when selecting the BroadWorks platform on IBM BladeCenter.

 

Company officials pointed out that telecom companies that rely on BroadWorks on IBM BladeCenter include Ericsson, Cox (News - Alert) Communications and T-Systems.

 

“This demonstration shows that service providers can scale their BroadWorks-based networks to meet subscriber demand,” Robert Weidenfeller, vice president of Engineering at BroadSoft, said in a press statement.

 

He explained that the demonstrated configuration represents all three BroadWorks application types -- Residential, Business Connectivity and Hosted Business -- and was performed with real-world call models. He added, “Operators can easily scale to over 20 million users by simply adding more IBM BladeCenters.”

 

Introduced in early 2007, the IBM BladeCenter HT extends the BladeCenter family to meet stringent NEBS3/ETSI (News - Alert) requirements for telecommunications carrier grade deployments.

 

The IBM BladeCenter HT delivers high-speed connectivity for network bandwidth up to 10 times greater than previously possible, helping telecommunications service providers unleash new, next-generation network services, according to Scott Firth, director of telecommunications industry marketing at IBM Systems and Technology Group.

 

Commenting on the latest BroadWorks achievement, he said, “This further validates the ability of the BroadWorks platform to effectively scale on the IBM BladeCenter HT, showing that the combined solution can handle the demands of a high volume of calls within a large-scale system configuration.”

 

He also said that the successful demonstration reinforces the accelerating customer momentum of telecom service providers adopting the IBM BladeCenter with the BroadWorks platform to “quickly deploy and scale new IP-based, converged voice services.”