Aastra Receives Innovation Award for Best Telephony Vendor in Middle East

DUBAI, June 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

This year's Network Middle East Innovation Award for Best Telephony Vendor was given to Aastra, recognizing the best range of telephony solutions in the region. Aastra demonstrated compelling offering in voice, video and mobility and showed strong commitment to the region.

The Network Middle East Innovation Awards are a means of recognizing the creative approaches being employed in providing for the needs of enterprises, capitalizing on new technologies and trends.

Georgina Enzer, Editor Network Middle East magazine declares, "Each year, Network Middle East sets out to honour the projects, people, suppliers and service providers that have excelled in the regional networking sector over the past twelve months, with the NME Innovation Awards. Now in its 9th year, the awards are presented to the very best vendor offerings in the market."

"We are honoured for this recognition and are happy that our efforts, our local presence and 100% dedication to enterprise communications are being appreciated not only by our customers and channel partners, but also by an independent jury." says Dr. Roger Hage, Vice President Marketing Aastra Middle East & Africa.

Hage continues "We have successfully deployed in several projects in Saudi Arabia, U.A.E, Egypt & Jordan our MX-ONE communication manager for enterprise -  together with our latest HD Video Conferencing & Collaboration solution BluStar™ supporting latest trends like Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). We are committed to bringing cutting edge technologies for the benefit of enterprises in the region, helping them communicate more efficiently."

About Aastra Middle East and Africa

Aastra Middle East and Africa is the regional business unit of Aastra Technologies Limited, (TSX:"AAH"), a leading company at the forefront of the enterprise communication market. Headquartered in Concord, Ontario, Canada, Aastra develops and delivers innovative communications products and applications for businesses. With a strong focus on open standards, Aastra enables enterprises to communicate and collaborate more efficiently. Aastra's operations are truly global with more than 50 million installed lines around the world and a direct and indirect presence in more than 100 countries. Aastra is entirely dedicated to enterprise communications and offers one of the most complete portfolios of unified communications solutions individually tailored to satisfy its customers' requirements. These range from feature-rich call managers for small and medium businesses and highly scalable ones for large enterprises, associated UC applications, integrated mobility, multimedia call center solutions and high definition video communications to a wide selection of deskphones and cordless terminals. For additional information on Aastra, visit our website at http://www.aastra.com/mea

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