Aastra to Provide IP Contact Center Hosting Services with Centergy Virtual Contact Center Solution; Companies Gain Large-Scale Contact Center Services on Demand, Anywhere in the World Through Aastra Intecom's Hosted Offering.

DALLAS -- Aastra Intecom today announced the formal launch of its contact center hosting service featuring its industry-leading Centergy Virtual Contact Center solution.

In addition to selling the solution outright to major enterprises and carriers, Aastra Intecom has formally entered the hosting market to satisfy the need for contact center technology on demand among small to medium sized companies, as well as major corporations.

"It's no surprise we would get into hosting ourselves," said Hugh Scholaert, President of Aastra Intecom. "As Intecom, we've been the worldwide leader in highly-distributed communications infrastructure for nearly 30 years. IP Contact Center functionality is best deployed virtually, so hosting makes natural sense for the customer, whether large or small, and there's no platform as reliable or scalable as ours available commercially. While we intend to market and sell this technology directly to carriers and other service providers, we will now maintain an operational role with our own direct customers obtaining first hand market expectations in product evolution and service level requirements."

Centergy Virtual Contact Center addresses many disparate needs in contacts centers:

--Any organization with multiple contact centers using separate systems can integrate it all into a single enterprise-wide resource at lower cost and with increased customer satisfaction

--Organizations with fluctuating needs for contact center functionality, like Universities, can purchase and share licenses across divisions or departments based on average need and add short term capacity for peak periods as required

--Smaller companies are now able to utilize advanced Centergy application features such as skills-based routing, advanced IVR, call recording and desktop integration which for years has satisfied the needs of Fortune 500 and global 2000 companies, but was never available for small and medium enterprises until now

--Companies of any size are able to flexibly utilize any employee anywhere in the world as part of their contact center to take maximum advantage of their geographically disbursed workforce

Companies are able to deploy the solution with no hardware or software whatsoever. Agents and supervisors log in from virtually anywhere; all that is needed is a phone and an internet connection. Regardless of geography, all agents are treated as one single agent pool, so companies can leverage distributed agents to better provide the right agent skill to its customers at any given time.

Centergy Virtual Contact Center is a non-blocking, triple redundant solution that is designed to enable companies to have high performance and reliability with complete security.

About Aastra Intecom

Aastra Intecom, an Aastra company, is the leading provider of mission critical contact center and enterprise IP communications for distributed entities.

Aastra Intecom manufactures and markets contact center technology for large enterprises and service providers/carriers managing multiple divisions, departments or other tenants on a single system. The company is also a provider of hosted solutions for companies seeking to access its best-in-class reliability and performance through a web services model.

Parent company, Aastra Technologies Limited (TSX:AAH), is headquartered in Concord, Ontario, Canada. Aastra globally develops and markets Internet Protocol (IP)-based as well as traditional communications networking products and systems. Aastra's products include a full range of VoIP solutions including communications servers, gateways, telephone terminals and advanced software applications for business and residential markets.

For more information about Aastra and Aastra Intecom, visit our Web sites at http://www.aastraintecom.com and www.aastra.com.