Aastra Technologies

Infobox Company
company_name = Aastra Technologies Limited
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company_type = Public company
foundation = 1995
location = Concord, Ontario, Canada
key_people = Francis Shen, Chairman & Co-CEO
Anthony Shen, Co-CEO, President, & COO
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industry = Telecommunications
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revenue = increase$607 million CAD (2007)
operating_income =
net_income = decrease$36 million CAD (2007)
num_employees = 1,690 (2008)cite web |url=http://zenobank.com/index.php?symbol=CA;AAH&page=quotesearch |title=Company Profile for Aastra Technologies Limited (CA;AAH) |accessdate=2008-10-06]
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homepage = 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.Fact|date=August 2008

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 [ [http://www.aastra.com/cps/rde/xchg/SID-3D8CCB6A-BD6C6510/04/hs.xsl/18807.htm 2005 results] ] .

On the 18 February 2008, Aastra acquired the enterprise PBX division of Ericsson. [ [http://www.ericsson.com/ericsson/press/releases/20080218-1192670.shtml Ericsson to divest its enterprise PBX solutions to Aastra Technologies - Press Release ] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.aastra.co.uk Aastra Telecom UK home]
* [http://www.aastra.fr Aastra France]