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 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
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Signaling is all we do.

That’s why it works.

2026

Year 15

15 years in signaling! New logo, new site, and a refreshed visual identity reflecting strong growth and global expansion.

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2025

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.

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2024

Year 13

Eighth GSMA GLOMO nomination and second Kaleido Security Champion rating. BroadForward becomes a GSMA member.

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2023

Year 12

Seventh GLOMO nomination, for the world’s first Signaling Firewall with intelligent velocity tracking. First Kaleido Champion rating for signaling security.

2022

Year 11

BICS and BroadForward SEPP power the world’s first 5G Standalone roaming connection.

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2021

Year 10

Sixth GSMA GLOMO nomination — and win — for the BFX Unified Signaling Core.

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2020

Year 9

Entered the market with a unique cloud native STP solution.

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2019

Year 8

Vodafone Roaming Services adopts BFX Multi-IMSI Routing for sponsored roaming.

2017

Year 7

Named Telco Cloud Innovator by ABI Research.

2016

Year 6

iconectiv, world’s largest Number Portability provider selects the BroadForward Number Portability Gateway.

2015

Year 5

Second GLOMO nomination, for the world’s first productized 3G–4G interworking solution.

2014

Year 4

BroadForward announces the BFX Diameter Signaling Controller, the world’s first software-designed DRA.

2013

Year 3

First live MAP–Diameter interworking deployment.

BroadForward announces the advanced MAP-Diameter Interworking gateway at Mobile World Congress 2013, emphasizing BFX's enhanced interface capabilities.
2012

Year 2

BFX Unified Signaling Core announced — world’s first productized protocol interworking engine.

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2011

Launch

Launch of BroadForward in December 2011.

Meet the Management team

Over 100 years of telecom experience combined

Taco Schoute

CEO

Steven van Zanen

CMO & Product Management

Sjoerd Somsen

Head of Operations

Erwin Schouten

Head of R&D

Robert Groenenberg

Chief Architect

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.
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