Aastra Telecom 480i added to Bicom Systems' Approved Hardware Providers List
Company widens the global reach of support devices

PARIS (January 15, 2005) - Bicom Systems announced today that on January 15, 2005 it has added Aastra Telecom to its Approved Hardware Providers List. The Approved Hardware Providers List is fast becoming the most comprehensive list of supported devices by any VoIP software. This furthers Bicom Systems' strategy of ensuring that its software can be deployed anywhere in the world.

"Aastra Telecom has some of the most sophisticated and stylish products on the market and the global distribution network to support them. Given our increasingly international spread of customers it is a very useful addition to our Approved Hardware Provider's List" said Stephen Wingfield, Bicom Systems' President, "Aastra Telecom also has one of the best ranges of hardware devices from IP Phones through to PBXs and Switches. As we continue to test Aastra Telecom's products we look forward to further additions."

"We are pleased that Bicom Systems have added Aastra to their approved Hardware Providers list" said Steve Copeland, Vice President of Marketing, Aastra Telecom "Our 480i VoIP telephone easily integrated with Bicom's PBXware and SWITCHware making it an ideal endpoint within their overall software solution. Customers using Bicom Systems' software can now deploy small to large scale system solutions using our 480i telephones assured with the knowledge that Bicom's autoprovisioning will happen easily and efficiently"

Bicom Systems Hardware Provider's List
Bicom Systems now approves the following Hardware devices: Aastra 480i, Cisco 7940, 7960, Firefly, Grandstream BT100, BT101, HT286, HT486, Sipura SPA1000, SPA2000, SPA3000, SNOM 150. Bicom Systems constantly adding to its list of Service Providers whose devices are auto-provisioned for each user this allows service providers, integrators and in turn End-Users the greatest range of choice different VoIP devices from Softphones, ATAs, IPphones and others.

The PBXware and SWITCHware between them provide the following:

· CRM, Billing, CMS, Shopping Cart

· Users Web Interface and self provisioning

· User agents auto provisioning

· Conferences, ACD, Auto Attendants, Music-on-Hold, Voicemail, DIDs, Call Recording and Monitoring, CDR

· Vertical services (Call Forwarding, Do not Disturb, Call Blocking, Ring Back etc.)

· Service Providers Auto Configuration

· Unlimited number of servers in local or network mode(s)

· Least cost routing for E164 or custom routes with or without time based dialling

· Local, Network or Inter-Networks modes

· PSTN and VoIP Trunks

· Unlimited Service Plans

· Service Specific Servers

· Support for SIP, IAX, H323, SS#7, BRI, PRI

· Support for GSM, G.711, ADPCM, ILBC, SPEEX, G729, G723

· Redundancy and monitoring mechanisms

For full details on Bicom Systems products please visit www.bicomsystems.com

About Aastra Technologies Ltd.
Aastra Technologies Limited, headquartered in Concord, Ontario, Canada, develops and markets products and systems for accessing communication networks. Aastra's products include a full range of residential and business telephone terminals, Enterprise Private Branch Exchanges (PBX), network access servers and high quality digital video gateways. Aastra serves the majority of telephone companies and certain cable operators and broadcasters in North America and Europe, with a growing presence in South America and Asia. For further information about Aastra, please visit www.aastra.com.

About Bicom Systems
Bicom Systems is a provider of PBX and soft switch turn key solutions with a presence in the United States and the European Union and supported by a network of resellers across the world. Its solutions allow easy deployment, maintenance and control of a wide range of telephony solutions. The company leads the industry in simplifying of the use of Asterisk (www.asterisk.org , open source PBX) and intends to play a key role in promoting the benefits of Asterisk to users who otherwise may not become involved. For more information about Bicom Systems, please visit www.bicomsystems.com.

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