Aastra Intecom Receives INTERNET TELEPHONY® Magazine’s 10th Annual Product of the Year Award
Clearspan™ Recognized for Outstanding Innovation

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Dallas, TX, January 4, 2008 — Aastra Intecom announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation’s (TMC®) INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine (www.itmag.com) has named Clearspan&trade as a recipient of its 2007 Product of the Year Award. INTERNET TELEPHONY has been the VoIP Authority Since 1998™.

Clearspan is a new network communications platform based on state-of-the-art design, open industry standards and proven carrier-grade technology for large and very large enterprises. The value proposition for Clearspan is quite simple: provide a rich, easy to use communications environment across all the devices users encounter and architect it to the most stringent professional standards for openness, performance, scalability and reliability. “Clearspan is a continuation of Aastra’s tradition of delivering high-performance mission-critical solutions to large enterprises,” said Dana A. Call, Executive Vice-President and General Manager, Aastra USA Inc. “We’re very pleased that INTERNET TELEPHONY has recognized the unique value of the Clearspan solution. We are excited about the ability of this product to deliver immediate benefits without wholesale replacement of existing systems. Our Self-Paced Migration capability allows enterprises to migrate to full VoIP at their own pace.”

“Aastra Intecom has proven they are committed to quality and excellence while addressing real needs in the marketplace. INTERNET TELEPHONY is pleased to grant a 2007 Product of the Year Award to Clearspan,” said Rich Tehrani, TMC President and Editor-in-Chief of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine. We’re proud to honor their hard work and accomplishments and look forward to more innovative solutions from Aastra Intecom in the future.”

A full list of Product of the Year winners will be published in the February, 2008 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine. (www.itmag.com)

For more information about TMC, please visit www.tmcnet.com.

About Aastra Intecom
Aastra Intecom is a leader in IP communications products including IP-PBX systems, standards-based telephones, Unified Communications and contact center applications. Our network solutions meet the needs of customers who require disaster recovery, scalability, integration and IP. We offer a range of SIP phones and a full suite of productivity applications that users can share across an entire network, like Unified Communications, Web and Audio Conferencing and Contact Center solutions. With over 28 years of experience delivering PBX and contact center systems to some of the largest and most demanding companies in the world Aastra is now bringing that expertise to companies of all sizes. Aastra Intecom has been responsible for many key milestones in the industry, including the first commercial IP-PBX for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), later sold to a larger technology company. This type of vision is still very much alive at Aastra today.

For more information visit www.aastraclearspan.com.

About INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine
INTERNET TELEPHONY has been the VoIP Authority since 1998™. Since the first issue in February of 1998, INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has been providing unbiased views of the complicated converged communications space. INTERNET TELEPHONY offers rich content from solutions-focused editorial content to reviews on products and services from TMC Labs. INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has a circulation of 225,000 including pass-along readers. For more information, please visit www.itmag.com.

About TMC
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, and IMS Magazine. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 6,000 most visited Web sites in the world by alexa.com*, TMCnet serves as many as three million unique visitors each month. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, and Call Center 2.0 Conference. For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com. (*alexa.com is an amazon.com company that ranks Web sites by their traffic levels. Neither alexa.com nor amazon.com is affiliated with TMCnet.) For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.

Aastra Contact:
Robyn Thompson
469-365-3249
pr@aastraintecom.com

TMC Contact:
Jan Pierret
203-852-6800, ext. 228
milto:jpierret@tmcnet.com

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