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Aastra Technologies Limited

Type	Public company
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]

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A VoIP handset manufactured by Aastra

[edit] External links

• Aastra Corporate