Targeting multi-site enterprises with hosted unified communications solution, Italian telecom operator Acantho has selected Broadsoft’s BroadWorks VoIP application platform to offer voice and multimedia services to the enterprise market in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy.

 

The initial BroadWorks deployment will be over the provider's Gigabit Ethernet network. But Acantho has won a WiMAX license in Italy recently and is planning to deploy the IP-Centrex service over WiMAX (News - Alert) access in 2009. The company is planning to enhance the service with a range of mobile capabilities in the same timeframe as the WiMAX deployment.

 

Acantho provides voice and internet services over a unique infrastructure of topic-oriented video and television networks and services. Its user base includes a large number of businesses and corporate customers as well as major internet penetration and consists of more than two million inhabitants. These provide the company with at least one million potential customers. Acantho has set itself out as a benchmark in the region to upgrade and supply value-added services to enterprises, institutions and the citizens.

 

Starting with the Bologna, Imola, Forlì-Cesena, Ravenna, Rimini and Riccione areas, Acantho provides a broad range of premium enterprise services via Gigabit Ethernet over optical fiber. Business users get superior data transfer services with up to 1 Gbs. Acantho delivers all IP-based service to its customers and plans to become the premier ICT provider in its region. Acantho joins a list of more than 80 operators who have deployed BroadWorks in Europe, the Middle East and Africa region.

 

“We evaluated more than 10 suppliers for our IP Centrex service,” said Roberto Vancini, chief executive officer at Acantho. “Apart from the obvious differences in capacity and reliability, BroadSoft (News - Alert) stood out because we can connect any type of IP-based telephone to the BroadWorks application platform and provide a large range of overlay features such as conferencing and unified communications. We were extremely impressed by the scalability of the system and its ability to provide multi-tenant capability for thousands of enterprises.”