ScanSource (
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announced a new partnership with BroadSoft (
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With this partnership, ScanSource Communications reseller and service provider partners now have access to BroadSoft PacketSmart, company officials said.
“ScanSource Communications has long-been respected in the telecommunications industry as a trusted partner to service providers,” said Ken Rokoff, vice president, business development at BroadSoft, in a statement.
BroadSoft’s PacketSmart is a set of Software-as-a-Service or “SaaS”-based quality of service assessment and monitoring capabilities, which enables service providers to rapidly and cost-effectively deploy superior quality VoIP and video communication services to their customers.
“We are pleased that ScanSource Communications is enabling service providers to take to market our innovative IP-based communications services through BroadWorks and is ensuring the superior quality of experience of these communication services through the distribution of BroadSoft PacketSmart,” Rokoff added.
Simultaneously ScanSource Communications also introduced a new program for a select group of its service provider customers to purchase BroadWorks VoIP communications application server licenses.
The BroadWorks VoIP communications application server provides a comprehensive portfolio of business and consumer communications applications and value-added applications from a common network platform, according to company officials.
With this program, these select service providers can purchase BroadWorks licenses in a “just in time” fashion as they sign up new customers. The program also enables service provider customers to purchase the BroadWorks licenses bundled with Polycom (
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Buck Baker, president of ScanSource Communications, said, “BroadSoft’s strong alliances with many of our leading vendor partners, including Polycom and AudioCodes (
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Earlier in January, ScanSource entered into an agreement with IBM (
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reported. Under this partnership, ScanSource Communications offers the total UC solution, named ShoreTel for IBM Lotus Foundations, to its reseller partners.
