Mitel Announces General Availability of Live Business Gateway for Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 Integrates Mitel voice communications and Networked Business Solutions with Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 and associated applications OTTAWA, Ontario, March 1, 2006 – Mitel® today announced the general availability of the Mitel 3300 Live Business Gateway providing seamless integration between the Mitel 3300 IP Communications Platform (ICP), legacy communications solutions, Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 and the Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 integrated communications client. This announcement follows a series of successful pilot implementations with partners and customers including Logista Solutions, Watson Communications, Allstream, ICS solutions in the U.K., Central Telecom in Europe, a large manufacturer of heavy equipment in North America and a global financial services company. "We are delighted that Mitel has vigorously embraced Microsoft Office Live Communications Server and Microsoft Office Communicator," said Marc Sanders, senior product manager, unified communications group, Microsoft. "Our combined solution integrates telephony, presence and collaboration features into the desktop experience, providing easy-to-use, flexible and secure real-time communications capabilities for our customers." The Live Business Gateway is an integral component of the 3300 ICP that enables users simple access to presence and collaboration applications throughout their business. It leverages their existing investments (legacy environment) and simplifies federation between businesses. With the Mitel Live Business Gateway users can invoke telephony and presence features from within the Microsoft Office suite of applications and from within Mitel applications including Mitel Customer Interaction Solutions and Mitel NuPoint Messenger™ IP. “Mitel is taking the lead in providing multiple commercially-available presence-enabled applications on the Microsoft Office Live Communications Server platform,” said Don Smith, Mitel’s chief executive officer. “Combined, our solution provides for a full, rich, standards-based federated collaboration environment that supports in-the-moment business decisions and improved customer interaction.” Mitel's Live Business Gateway seamlessly integrates voice and user/device presence capabilities into the powerful real-time collaboration that Microsoft Office Live Communications Server and Microsoft Office Communicator bring to business applications such as the Microsoft Office System. The Live Business Gateway allows Microsoft Office Communicator and other Microsoft applications to access Mitel's IP-based telephony infrastructure and allows Microsoft Office Communicator to connect users external to the enterprise through the public network. It also enables eight-party ad hoc conference-calling among Microsoft Office Communicator clients, further leveraging businesses' investment in Microsoft and Mitel communications solutions. “We are pleased to collaborate with Mitel during the successful testing of their Live Business Gateway platform at Allstream,” said Eric Fletcher, Senior Vice President, Marketing, Allstream. “Through the Live Business Gateway, our Microsoft Office Live Communications Server customers will now be able to seamlessly integrate telephony on their Microsoft desktop using Microsoft Office Communicator. This allows Allstream clients to reduce overall communications costs by simplifying and converging their IT and telephony infrastructure, and at the same time, enjoy productivity gains through the solution’s rich set of collaboration tools. This is another example of Allstream’s commitment to deliver innovative IP-based solutions for large enterprises and mid-market customers to help them compete better in their businesses.” “Enterprises are eager to gain increased business value through the integration of communications and business applications,” said Jeffrey Snyder, Research Vice President, Enterprise Communications, Gartner Research. “The use of open standards makes these integrations more reliable, and productizing such integrations allows enterprises to realize that business value more quickly.” Based on Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Extensible Markup Language (XML) and ISO Computer Supported Telecommunications Applications (CSTA) standards, the Live Business Gateway enables all 3300 ICP controllers to inter-operate with Microsoft Office Live Communications Server and the Microsoft Office Communicator client using the CSTA and SIP standards encoded in XML. As a Live Business Gateway the 3300 ICP also offers the features of Microsoft Office Live Communications Server and Microsoft Office Communicator to legacy PBX environments and can deliver Microsoft Office Live Communications Server enabled Mitel applications extending the Microsoft presence and federation capability throughout Mitel’s applications portfolio. About Mitel
Mitel is a market leader for voice, video, and data convergence over broadband networks. With a focus on the user experience, the company delivers advanced communications solutions that are easily customized for individual business needs. Mitel solutions extend from intuitive desktop appliances and applications through to Live Business Gateways that enable business process integration and enhancement. Customers are provided with innovative ways to leverage their resources and migrate to the benefits of IP communications at their own pace. Mitel is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada with offices, partners, and resellers worldwide. For more information please visit www.mitel.com. Mitel and logo are registered trademarks of Mitel Networks Corporation.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 1, 2005 Mitel Networks New Fiscal Year Began April 26, 2005!
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ProCurve Networking by HP and Mitel Simplify Converged IP Solutions and Support for Businesses PALO ALTO, Calif. and OTTAWA, Canada, Nov. 17, 2004 - ProCurve Networking by HP and Mitel, a leading provider of IP communications solutions, today announced a joint networking solution and support offering designed to enable customers to easily deploy converged networks as a means to reduce infrastructure cost and complexity. To provide enterprises with increased levels of interoperability and performance from their converged network investment, the companies signed an agreement that includes comprehensive pre- and post-sales support for customers as well as the cross-training of HP and Mitel engineers to maintain each other's products. Building on the success of Mitel and HP's global working relationship, the new offering is part of an initiative between the two companies for joint research and development, service and support. "We decided to install a fully integrated voice and data system across our 18 sites, which include offices, sports centres and depots, to create one network and make council operations more efficient," said John Newby, democratic services manager, North East Derbyshire District Council, UK. "The offering from ProCurve and Mitel has provided us with the best-in-class data and IP solution allowing us to send and receive the large volumes of data that a modern organization like the council handles on a daily basis." Communications solutions provider Bailey Telecom was appointed to manage a communications overhaul across 18 sites by North East Derbyshire District Council following a 12-way competitive bid. The companies' combined offering incorporates the ProCurve Adaptive EDGE Architecture and Mitel's advanced product line of IP PBXs, IP phones and IP applications. It provides enterprises with a wide variety of enhanced benefits including advanced solutions integration; superb functionality in areas of network management, security and enterprise mobility; and the optimization of design, engineering and implementation processes. "Most customers who are considering new or upgraded voice solutions want to discuss their alternatives with suppliers who are experts in voice solutions and with suppliers that are experts in data infrastructure, yet they ultimately want a well integrated deployment," said John McHugh, vice president and general manager, ProCurve Networking by HP. "Our partnership with Mitel is unique because our customers and channels have access to Mitel, a company that has been in the voice business for more than 30 years, and ProCurve, which has been in the data networking business for almost two decades. Now we have the integrated sales and support model these customers demand." "Customers benefit from this co-developed solution, especially as the network environment rapidly evolves, because our joint offering based on advanced IP applications, devices and system management tools is designed to enhance business and IT processes, levels of customer service and employee productivity," said Don Smith, chief executive officer, Mitel. "Our joint market share growth depends on our ongoing commitment to deliver innovative world-class solutions and seamless support to our customers and channels - a commitment further reinforced by this agreement." About Mitel Mitel is a market leader for voice, video, and data convergence over broadband networks. With a focus on the user experience, the company delivers advanced communications solutions that are easily customized for individual business needs. Through intuitive desktop appliances and applications, businesses are provided with innovative ways to manage information and resources. Vertical markets benefit from integrated solutions that protect existing investments, while enabling new ways to be more cost effective and productive. Mitel is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada with offices, partners, and resellers worldwide. For more information please visit www.Mitel.com. About ProCurve Networking by HP The ProCurve Networking business unit of HP is a supplier of enterprise networking solutions comprising wired and wireless enterprise networking products, services and solutions - including Ethernet switches, routing switches, wireless access points and network-management applications - which allow customers to build networks based on open standards that meet current and future needs for security, performance and reliability. More information about ProCurve networking solutions and products is available at ProCurve Networking by HP web site. About HP HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing. For the four fiscal quarters ended July 31, 2004, HP revenue totaled $78.4 billion. More information about HP (NYSE, Nasdaq: HPQ) is available at HP web site.# # #
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