Aastra Technologies
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| Type | Public company |
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| Founded | 1995 |
| Headquarters | Concord, Ontario, Canada |
| Key people | Francis Shen, Chairman & Co-CEO Anthony Shen, Co-CEO, President, & COO |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Revenue | ▲$607 million CAD (2007)[1] |
| Net income | ▼$36 million CAD (2007)[1] |
| Employees | 1,690 (2008)[1] |
| Website | http://www.aastra.com |
Aastra Technologies Limited (TSX: AAH) headquartered in Concord, Ontario, Canada, makes products and systems for accessing communication networks including the Internet. Its products include residential and business telephone terminals, screen telephones, Enterprise Private branch exchanges (PBX), network access terminals and high quality digital video encoders, decoders and gateways.
Residential telephone equipment is sold in the United States as Bell equipment by Sonecor brand, which represents Southern New England Telecommunications, who originally licensed the rights to the Bell trademark to Aastra.[citation needed] In 2000 Aastra acquired the rights to manufacture phones under the Nortel name[citation needed].
75% of Aastra Technologies' 2005 sales were made in Europe, having purchased that year the DeTeWe firm in Berlin, with 17% in the United States, and only 5% in Canada[2]
Aastra received Internet Telephony's Best of Show Award for 2007 for Best Large Enterprise Solution [3]
On the 18 February 2008, Aastra acquired the enterprise PBX division of Ericsson.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c "Company Profile for Aastra Technologies Limited (CA;AAH)". Zenobank. http://zenobank.com/index.php?symbol=CA;AAH&page=quotesearch. Retrieved on 2008-10-06.
- ^ "Aastra Reports Fourth Quarter 2005 Financial Results". Aastra. March 2, 2006. http://www.aastra.com/cps/rde/xchg/SID-3D8CCB6A-BD6C6510/04/hs.xsl/18807.htm. Retrieved on 2008-11-07.
- ^ Grigonis, Richard (March 2008). "2008 Internet Telephony Best of Show Awards". Internet Telephony. http://www.tmcnet.com/voip/0308/2008-internet-telephony-best-of-show-awards.htm. Retrieved on 2009-01-21.
- ^ Ericsson (February 18, 2008). [http://www.ericsson.com/ericsson/press/releases/20080218-1192670.shtml Ericsson to divest its enterprise PBX solutions to Aastra Technologies]. Press release. http://www.ericsson.com/ericsson/press/releases/20080218-1192670.shtml. Retrieved on November 7, 2008.
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