Santa Clara, California – March 19, 2007 – Edgewater Networks, Inc. and Aastra Telecom announced today that Aastra has joined Edgewater Network’s Plug & Dial Alliance. Aastra’s IP telephones have been certified interoperable with the Edgewater Networks Plug & Dial solution. The Plug & Dial Alliance uses Edgewater Networks’ EdgeMarc routers and the EdgeView VoIP Support System to turn the multi-step and error-prone process of IP phone setup into an automated, simplified installation experience that reduces costs for service providers.

"Aastra has always been focused on delivering simplified provisioning and ease-of-use in our standards-based SIP telephony products,” said Yves Laliberte, executive vice president of sales at Aastra Telecom. “Participating in the Edgewater Networks’ multi-vendor Plug & Dial Alliance program is another example of our commitment to reducing complexity for VoIP installations.”

The Plug & Dial Alliance program provides interoperability testing for multi-vendor VoIP networking environments and automated setup of many leading brands of SIP-based IP phones. Service providers use Edgewater Networks’ Plug & Dial solution to significantly shorten hosted VoIP installation times and simplify ongoing moves, adds and changes. The solution uses intuitive voice prompts provided to the end-user so that they can “self provision” and completely eliminates pre-staging or manual configuration of IP phones. The solution also provides notification to existing OSS or billing systems at the completion of the automated IP phone configuration. The level of automation provided by the Plug & Dial solution reduces installation times from hours to minutes.

"A driving philosophy for the Plug & Dial Alliance is to deliver solutions that produce the lowest operating expense possible for our joint service provider customers,” said Dave Norman, Chief Executive Officer of Edgewater Networks, Inc. “If you are using products certified by the Plug & Dial Alliance you will have a competitive advantage in the cost of set-up and support. The end customer will be happier resulting in a lower churn rate for the operator. We continue to add leading VoIP devices to the Plug & Dial solution. Aastra SIP phones are a popular choice among our service provider customers and we are pleased that Aastra has joined the Plug & Dial Alliance program.”

Edgewater Networks has certified the following Aastra models for Plug & Dial operation: 9112i, 9133i, 480i, 480i CT, 53i, 55i, 57i and the 57i CT.

To learn more about Plug & Dial solution go to www.edgewaternetworks.com or contact Dave Martin at 408.351.7209 or dmartin@edgewaternetworks.com. For sales inquiries please contact sales@edgewaternetworks.comor 408.351.7200.

To learn more about the Aastra line of SIP telephones go to www.aastratelecom.com. For sales inquiries please contact sales@aastra.com or 905-760-4200.

About Edgewater Networks, Inc. - Converged Networking. Simplified.
Edgewater Networks develops networking and security products that ensure the secure and reliable delivery of IP based voice and video for service providers and enterprises. EdgeMarc routers provide a VoIP aware NAT/Firewall, with survivability and QoS. EdgeConnect PoE switches simplify administration and QoS and the EdgeView VoIP Support System eases the setup, monitoring and management of VoIP endpoints.  Edgewater Networks’ award-winning solution simplifies setup and management of converged networking applications and provides proven operational savings from the remote office to the core of the network. For more information about Edgewater Networks, Inc. please visit the company’s website at www.edgewaternetworks.com or contact Dave Martin at 408.351.7209.

About Aastra
Aastra Telecom is a North American business unit of Aastra Technologies Limited (“Aastra”), a rapidly growing global company at the forefront of the Enterprise Communication market. Headquartered in Concord, Ontario, Canada, Aastra develops, markets, and supports a comprehensive portfolio of products, systems, and applications for building and accessing communication networks. Aastra’s products comprise a full range of open-standard IP-based and traditional networking solutions including; Enterprise Private Branch Exchanges (PBXs), IP-PBX’s, gateways, digital and analog telephone terminals, VoIP telephones, wireless handsets, and advanced software applications. For more information on Aastra, please visit our Web site at www.aastratelecom.com.
Aastra® is a registered trademark of Aastra Technologies Limited.

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Media Contact:

Edgewater Networks, Inc.
Dave Martin
+1 408.351.7209
dmartin@edgewaternetworks.com

Aastra Telecom
Steve Hawkins
+1 905.760.4251
shawkins@aastra.com