• Headquartered in Concord, Ontario, Canada, Aastra has an international reach with 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 59 consecutive positive quarters, revenues reached CAD$606.6 million by the end of FY 12 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 one of the leading players in the European IP PBX/PBX market ¹
  • #1 in the SMB market
  • #2 in Western Europe
  • #3 in Europe
  • Aastra is also the #1 Supplier for DECT in EMEA²  
     
• 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; Ericsson’s Enterprise Communications Division - April 2008; and in April, 2012, Comdasys AG)

¹ © MZA Ltd, Corded PBX/IP PBX market– ranking based on extensions sold in CY 2012, report published in 2013. SMB ranking based on extensions sold in the sub 250 segment.

² Source: © MZA Ltd, EMEA Cordless market, multi-cellular DECT supplier Shipment Review CY 2012 published in April 2013