Press Release

Aastra helps small and medium businesses get connected over IP with new Unified Communications bundle

Aastra offers SMBs a cost effective UC solution

Farnborough, 21st October 2009 – Aastra is launching the MX-ONE™ Compact to offer small and medium businesses (SMB) a competitive solution to move to pure IP and Unified Communications (UC) at a pace that suits them.

Many businesses today are challenged with multiples tasks of managing a tight budget aimed at reducing communication costs and lowering general operational expenses so as to maximize financial return, while at the same time keeping customers happy and improving staff productivity. Efficient enterprise communications can drive improved employee productivity by delivering tools to enhance collaboration and increase efficiency. Aastra is enabling small and medium businesses to reap the benefits of unified communications in a cost-effective way with a solution especially tailored for their needs.

“What we have done is concentrate the features and benefits of the comprehensive and well-established MX-ONE™ call control manager to address the specific requirements of SMBs. Now, small and medium businesses can get the benefits of a full-featured and scalable enterprise grade solution for deployments up to 300 extensions in a cost effective way.” said, Michael Calvert, General Manager at Aastra.

The Aastra MX-ONE™ Compact offers clients a unified communications solution which includes:

• Integrated mobility - by integrating mobile phones into the call manager with fixed mobile convergence, members of staff can enjoy the features usually provided by a office desk phone on their mobile handsets making them more reactive and reachable with a single number.
• Productivity enhancing tools, such as presence management for more efficient call management, advanced messaging (for voice mail, fax mail and unified messaging) as well as call screening

The Aastra MX-ONE™ Compact provides companies with the flexibility to build a leading edge IP solution in a cost effective and convenient manner. Employees working from home or on the move can become reachable on the same number and benefit from the same features as when in the office.

The MX-ONE™ Compact supports standards based communications protocols like SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) on both extension and trunk lines and is available with a wide variety of terminals (SIP, IP, cordless for example) and applications (such as the award-winning Solidus eCare solution for contact centre).

For more information regarding the Aastra MX-ONE™ Compact packages please visit us at www.aastra.co.uk  

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About Aastra UK

Aastra UK is the “UK” business unit of Aastra Technologies Limited, (TSX:“AAH”), a leading company at the forefront of the enterprise communication market. Headquartered in Concord, Ontario, Canada, Aastra develops and delivers innovative communications products and applications for businesses. Aastra’s operations are truly global with more than 50 million installed lines around the world and a direct and indirect presence in more than 100 countries. Aastra is entirely dedicated to enterprise communications and offers one of the most complete portfolios of unified communications solutions individually tailored to satisfy its customers’ requirements. These range from feature-rich call managers for small and medium businesses and highly scalable ones for large enterprises, integrated mobility, call centres solutions to a wide selection of terminals. With a strong focus on open standards, Aastra enables enterprises to communicate and collaborate more efficiently. For additional information on Aastra, visit our website at http://www.aastra.com  

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Contact Information

Aastra Press Contact:

Lisa Richardson, Marketing Communications Manager
Tel: 01252 532100
Fax: 01252 532101

Aastra Press Agency: Speed Communications

Susannah Wyeth/Matthew Watson
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Email: aastra@speedcommunications.com

Aastra Industry Analyst Contact:

Stephane Bobinet, Director of European Market Communications
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