CONCORD, ONTARIO & SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA: Aastra Telecom, a leading provider of standards-based corded and wireless SIP telephones in North America, has announced the launch of AastraLink Pro – Model 160, a cost-effective and powerful IP PBX created specifically for the small business market.

Targeted for 25 users and under, Aastra’s AastraLink Pro combines all the benefits of open standards with enhanced IP PBX telephony technology to deliver affordable and world class communications solutions for North American small businesses and channel partners.

“Combined, and fully integrated with Aastra’s existing portfolio of SIP phones, the launch of the AastraLink Pro enables us to deliver to market a powerful and truly cost-effective telephony solution specifically created for small sized organizations,” said Yves Laliberte, Executive Vice President at Aastra Telecom. “As a longstanding industry leader in the SMB space, Aastra’s key priorities are to design flexible and reliable products from the ground up to deliver enterprise-class IP communications to all of our SMB customers.”

Designed to meet the unique requirements of small business, AastraLink Pro enables users to quickly and easily get phones up and running by simply plugging the system into an existing LAN (Local Area Network) – without hidden application license and user costs or the need of an installation technician. This IP-based PBX offers a flexible infrastructure for companies, providing a complete, integrated and affordable standards-based system for the SMB market and channel while delivering a lower total cost of ownership compared to other small business phone systems.

AastraLink Pro provides all the standard PBX/Key system features and functionality while leveraging a host of new IP-based services – including auto discovering and self provisioning of extensions, visual voicemail delivered via XML, SIP trunking, expanded user control via a web GUI, remote teleworker and the ability to network multiple AastraLink Pro's via IP. Designed to be compatible with select Aastra SIP phones, the AastraLink Pro also supports up to 6 PSTN FXO trunks, 2 FXS Analog ports and 1 SIP trunk plus external paging port and a music input port.

Available May 2008, AastraLink Pro will be offered exclusively through Aastra’s authorized distributors throughout North America.