QinetiQ North America (QNA) today announced it has expanded its strategic relationship with BroadSoft®, a provider of software and services that enable mobile, fixed-line and cable service providers to offer unified communications over their Internet Protocol networks. QNA will now provide a full suite of BroadWorks® and BroadCloudTM based unified communications services to government agencies. QNA, BroadSoft’s first U.S. government solutions provider, offers open standards-based, scalable, unified communication solutions to its federal, defense and Intelligence Community customers.
“QNA is committed to proactively developing solutions to our customers’ challenges,” said John Sutton, EVP and General Manager, Mission Solutions, QinetiQ North America. “With this partnership, we are expanding our solution set to rapidly increase the quality and security of our customers’ voice and data communications in the cloud.”
This expanded alliance is a natural extension of QNA’s current experience implementing and supporting BroadSoft’s platform for federal customers. The additional capabilities provided by BroadSoft will enable QNA to offer Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) in a hosted model and extend its current offerings to include the full portfolio of BroadSoft’s Unified Communications services.
BroadSoft’s core communications platform enables the delivery of a range of enterprise and consumer calling, messaging and collaboration communication services, including private branch exchanges, video calling, text messaging and converged mobile and fixed-line services.
“We welcome the opportunity to expand our relationship with QNA, BroadSoft’s first solutions provider for the U.S. government,” said Patrick Joggerst, Vice President, Global Sales, BroadSoft. “QNA can now extend its hosted voice solution to full unified communications, enabling them to better meet the needs of government agencies for next-gen services such as video calling and conferencing, instant messaging, presence and web collaboration.”