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Aastra Joins Sylantro’s Select Partner Program And Signs On As A Platinum Sponsor Of the Upcoming Sylantro Global Summit

Aastra expands its relationship with Sylantro, joining the Select Partner Program to rapidly develop and deliver integrated customer solutions and applications


CONCORD, ON, CANADA and Campbell, CA, USA— September 10, 2007 — Aastra Telecom, a global provider of open-standard communication products, systems and solutions, and Sylantro Systems, developer of the leading multiplay application feature server, today announced that they have expanded their relationship with Aastra becoming a member of Sylantro’s Select Partner program. Having previously been a Sylantro Connected Partner, Aastra will now work with Sylantro at the highest program level to ensure Aastra’s products and applications tightly integrate with Sylantro’s call control platform ensuring sustained interoperability.

The purpose of the program is to enable participants to rapidly develop and deliver competitive customer solutions and applications, to accelerate deployment of these solutions, and to ensure interoperability and compliance with Sylantro’s products. Demonstrating its commitment, Aastra recently completed testing of its 5i Series of SIP Telephones under the program and has achieved full compliant status against Sylantro’s SIP for Business feature set.

“Customers are looking for high quality, innovative and fully integrated voice and data solutions that add the most value to their business communications process,” said Yves Laliberté, Executive Vice President at Aastra Telecom. “By seamlessly integrating the endpoint with Sylantro’s Synergy Multiplay Application Feature Server, we can really deliver value to the end user, as well as the channels that serve them.”

Aastra has also announced that they will be a Platinum Sponsor at Sylantro’s upcoming Global Summit. At the Sylantro Global Summit, Aastra will demonstrate innovative ways of integrating Aastra SIP endpoints to the Synergy Platform, as well as to Web Based Applications, in order to create new and unique revenue generating services for Enterprise customers.

“We are delighted that Aastra will once again be participating in the Sylantro Global Summit,” said John Trobough, Senior VP of Solutions, Sylantro Systems. “Aastra has a unique CPE solution for delivering voice and data applications to end users allowing compelling applications to be developed for vertical markets. As a Platinum sponsor, Aastra will be joining fellow communication market leaders at the Global Summit and demonstrating how their line up of quality SIP endpoints integrate with our Synergy platform providing unique desktop applications and solutions to service providers and others making investments in hosted voice, mobility and Web services.”

About the Sylantro Global Summit
Taking place Sept. 30 – Oct. 2 at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas, the Sylantro Global Summit is an annual global gathering of service providers and communications executives focused on addressing carrier transformation. Attendees will hear the latest on hosted voice, mobility and Web services, see the latest in applications, unified communications and collaboration, and listen to real world case studies on FMC and IMS in an intimate, high touch atmosphere. For more information please visit www.SylantroGlobalSummit.com

About Aastra
Aastra Telecom is a North American business unit of Aastra Technologies Limited (“Aastra”), a global company at the forefront of the Enterprise Communication market. Headquartered in Concord, Ontario, Canada, Aastra develops and delivers innovative and integrated solutions that address the communication needs of businesses small and large around the world. Aastra enables Enterprises to communicate and collaborate more efficiently and effectively by offering customers a full range of open standard IP-based and traditional communications networking products, including terminals, systems, and applications. For additional information on Aastra, visit our website at http://www.aastra.com

Aastra® is a registered trademark of Aastra Technologies Limited.


About Sylantro Systems Corp.
Sylantro Systems offers the leading multiplay application feature server enabling rich hosted IP communication services across fixed, mobile, and cable networks. Sylantro’s Synergy platform and Synapps Web Services provide a carrier-grade, feature-rich, web services-enabled common capability for creating new converged experiences for business and consumers. Sylantro customers include AT&T, China Netcom, KT, Nuvox, QWEST, StarHub, Swisscom and others. Sylantro is headquartered in Campbell, CA. For more information on Sylantro please visit www.sylantro.com  and for more information on the Sylantro Global Summit, please go to http://www.sylantro.com/gs2007/


Copyright © 2007 all rights reserved. Sylantro is a registered trademark of Sylantro Systems Corporation. Multiplay application feature server is a salesmark of Sylantro Systems Corporation. All other products and brands mentioned are trademarks and/or service marks of their respective owners.

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