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Mitel Kicks Off Forum 2007 in Las Vegas

Conference and Tradeshow Showcases Latest Enhancements in Mitel’s Unified Communications Portfolio

LAS VEGAS, NV – June 24, 2007 – Mitel® kicked off Mitel Forum 2007 event at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, NV with product and channel program announcements aimed at increasing its leadership position in the unified communications market. The three-day conference and tradeshow brings together close to a thousand Mitel customers, partners, distributors and resellers, consultants, and analysts to learn about and experience Mitel’s “presence-everywhere” unified communications solutions.

“Forum represents an opportunity to assemble the entire Mitel team from customers to partners and distributors to employees to celebrate the success we’re enjoying in the marketplace and lay the foundation for the coming year,” said Doug Michaelides, vice president of global marketing at Mitel. “By showcasing our partners on the Forum tradeshow floor and hosting more than 75 educational sessions throughout the week, Mitel demonstrates its thought leadership in unified communications solutions and our position as a leading provider in the industry.”

Extending Mitel’s Leadership in SMB
A highlight of this year’s conference is Mitel’s recent advancements in its SMB portfolio designed to power business efficiency.

New to the portfolio, the award-winning Mitel Applications Suite¹ simplifies installation and administration of systems by combining three Mitel productivity-enhancing applications – Mitel NuPoint Messenger™ IP, Mitel Teleworker Solution, and Mitel Mobile Extension – on a single server with a unified management interface. This new package allows managers to spend less time and money on implementation and more time on improving how their organization does business.

Other enhancements to award-winning products in Mitel’s SMB portfolio include Mitel Your Assistant™ and Mitel Quick Conference². The Mitel Your Assistant unified communications desktop productivity tool provides person, phone, and computer presence. Its fully featured soft phone allows road warriors and teleworkers to communicate securely and collaborate from any location with a high-speed Internet connection without the need for a virtual private network (VPN) connection.

Mitel Quick Conference, a cost-effective conferencing platform, allows businesses to easily conduct ad hoc audio conferences and take advantage of increased collaboration opportunities among employees, customers, and partners. Supporting up to 200 participants, the flexibility of Quick Conference allows users to coordinate “on the fly” conference calls from any location at any time, without operator assistance.

Delivering One of the Industry’s First Multi-Instance Call Servers
Mitel recently announced they have entered into a global OEM agreement with Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) that will help drive the use of converged voice and data applications in multi-tenant environments. Mitel’s unified communications call control software will be integrated into industry-standard Sun Microsystems servers for enterprise and carrier hosted and customer premise environments. Together, Sun and Mitel have also created a unified solution offering with Mitel’s contact center software on Sun Rayä ultra-thin client hardware.

Also new, the Mitel Cordless Handset and Mitel Cordless Headset enable mobility in the workplace for users to travel within a 100-meter range of their desk phone. Supported on the Mitel 5300 series IP phones, the Cordless Handset and Cordless Headset provide the user with the same features as their regular handset while maintaining superior acoustic quality.

Setting a New Standard of Channel Engagement
Mitel’s PARTNERprogram is an evolution of Mitel’s global channel model designed to simplify channel engagement and enable Mitel Solutions Providers to take full advantage of business opportunities to increase their revenue and better serve customer needs.

The new program delivers the tools needed to help Mitel Solutions Providers go to market easily and successfully including support for joint marketing initiatives, compelling rebate and incentive programs, and opportunities to participate in vertical sector specialist initiatives.

Mitel Forum 2007 Gold Sponsor is ProCurve Networking by HP. Forum 2007 Silver Sponsors are bandwidth.com, CIT, Graybar, Netgear, Sun Microsystems, and Tech Data.

For more information on Mitel Forum 2007 visit www.mitelforum.com.

About Mitel
Mitel, a leading provider of unifying IP communications solutions and applications for business customers, is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, with offices, partners and resellers worldwide. For more information, visit www.mitel.com.

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¹ The Mitel Applications Suite has been awarded the 2007 TMC Labs Innovation Award for Internet Telephony Magazine.

² Mitel Your Assistant, Mitel Quick Conference and the Mitel 5340 IP Phone have been awarded the 2006 Product of the Year from Communications Solutions Magazine.