BroadSoft, Inc., a leading worldwide provider of software-based VoIP applications to the telecommunications industry, announced in December it had acquired Sylantro Systems Corporation, a provider of VoIP applications based in Campbell, California and its main competitor in the software as a service space for a decade.

Nortel’s fall leaves network equipment makers such as Alcatel Lucent and Cisco facing the challenges of competing in a VoIP market now trending clearly toward more open Web-style development of voice telephony, and raises the question of how proprietary platforms such as Broadsoft’s may eventually fare against Digium’s open-source Asterisk solution.

Source:  Voxilla