Founded in 2011. Signaling is what we do.
We spent years inside the large vendors, watching signaling get buried under bigger product lines — deprioritized, under-resourced, left to age. Operators paid the price in outages, slow roadmaps, end-of-life situations, and support tickets that go nowhere. In 2011, we started a company with one job: signaling. And we’ve kept it that way —nothing else has been added to our roadmap to compete for attention.
Founded in 2011.
Signaling is what we do.
We spent years inside the large vendors, watching signaling get buried under bigger product lines — deprioritized, under-resourced, left to age. Operators paid the price in outages, slow roadmaps, end-of-life situations, and support tickets that go nowhere. In 2011, we started a company with one job: signaling. And we’ve kept it that way —nothing else has been added to our roadmap to compete for attention.
Who we are
Fifteen years in as a pure-play signaling vendor — not a division, not a legacy product line being sunset.
Our focus is signaling continuity. While most vendors rank signaling against everything else they sell, it remains the only thing on our roadmap.
At BroadForward, we want to be known for deep expertise, technical leadership, and high-quality standards, with the reliability and accountability operators expect from a vendor in a mission critical domain. We’re passionate to support our customers, and eager to be the best in signaling. Because it is vital for the telecoms industry.
By the numbers
- 15 years as a dedicated signaling vendor
- 9 GSMA Best Mobile Technology nominations in the past 10 years
- Multiple Kaleido Champion ratings for our security solutions
Signaling is all we do.
That’s why it works.
Year 15
15 years in signaling! New logo, new site, and a refreshed visual identity reflecting strong growth and global expansion.
Year 14
Ninth nomination and our second GSMA GLOMO win. Now for the world’s first cloud enabled STP. Earned our third Kaleido Security Champion rating.
Year 13
Eighth GSMA GLOMO nomination and second Kaleido Security Champion rating. BroadForward becomes a GSMA member.
Year 12
Seventh GLOMO nomination, for the world’s first Signaling Firewall with intelligent velocity tracking. First Kaleido Champion rating for signaling security.
Year 11
BICS and BroadForward SEPP power the world’s first 5G Standalone roaming connection.
Year 10
Sixth GSMA GLOMO nomination — and win — for the BFX Unified Signaling Core.
Year 9
Entered the market with a unique cloud native STP solution.
Year 8
Vodafone Roaming Services adopts BFX Multi-IMSI Routing for sponsored roaming.
Year 7
Named Telco Cloud Innovator by ABI Research.
Year 6
iconectiv, world’s largest Number Portability provider selects the BroadForward Number Portability Gateway.
Year 5
Second GLOMO nomination, for the world’s first productized 3G–4G interworking solution.
Year 4
BroadForward announces the BFX Diameter Signaling Controller, the world’s first software-designed DRA.
Year 3
First live MAP–Diameter interworking deployment.
Year 2
BFX Unified Signaling Core announced — world’s first productized protocol interworking engine.
Launch
Launch of BroadForward in December 2011.
Want to work on live networks?
We’re an international, team building signaling software that carries live traffic for tier-1 operators worldwide. Deep expertise, hands-on engineering, and work that ships to production — not a backlog.
- Signaling engineering at the core, not buried in a vendor org chart.
- All development done in the Netherlands, from first line of code to live network.
News & Insights
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