• Headquartered in Concord, Ontario, Canada, Aastra has an international reach with more than 2,000 employees around the world, a direct presence in more than 30 countries as well as thousands of sales partners and resellers, including a strong presence among carriers
   
• Aastra is a profitable and well managed company: with more than 50 consecutive positive quarters, revenues reached CAD$720 million by the end of FY 10 and the balance sheet is strong with a positive net cash balance
   
• With more than 50 million lines installed globally, Aastra has one of the largest customer bases of any global telephony provider and the loyalty of our customers is a testimony to our product and service quality
   
• Aastra has a long time track record of protecting customers’ investments
   
• Aastra has a broad portfolio of enterprise communications solutions to satisfy its every customer’s requirements. Offerings range from feature-rich call managers for small and medium businesses to highly scalable ones for large enterprises, to integrated mobility solutions, unified communications applications, and call centre suites, complemented by a wide array of terminals 
   
• Aastra is 100% dedicated to enterprise communications
   
• Aastra is #5 in the world for the Enterprise Telephony Platform and Endpoints market ¹, and one of the leading players in Europe: #2 overall and #1 in the sub 100 extension segment ²  
   
• Aastra embraces open standards to offer standalone network elements or complete system solutions to its customers. Aastra is the only company with a complete portfolio of architecture: IP-PBXs, software based call managers, open source platforms, hosted solutions and Microsoft based architecture (i.e. Lync) 
   
• Aastra continues to invest aggressively in R&D to be at the forefront of IP technology 
   
• Founded in 1983, Aastra has grown both organically and through M&A. With major acquisitions in Europe in recent years, Aastra has been at the forefront of consolidation in the enterprise communications sector (Ascom PBX Division - September, 2003; EADS Telecom Division – March, 2005, DeTeWe - August 2005 and in April 2008 Ericsson’s Enterprise Communications division)

¹ Source: Frost & Sullivan, “World Enterprise Telephony Platform and Endpoints Markets” July 2011 lines shipped with hybrid and pure IP call managers
² Source:© MZA Ltd, Corded PBX/IP PBX Competitive Environment 2011 edition for DECT, source: © MZA Ltd, Cordless PBX Shipment Review CY 2010