Aastra Technologies
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Concord, Ontario
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, Canada
Canada
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, 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
United States
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as Bell equipment by Sonecor brand, which represents Southern New England Telecommunications
Southern New England Telecommunications
Southern New England Telecommunications Corporation started operations in 1986 as the holding company for The Southern New England Telephone Company. Prior to 1986, The Southern New England Telephone Company had been a minority holding of AT&T until February 1986, when AT&T withdrew its 23% holding...
, who originally licensed the rights to the Bell trademark to Aastra.
History
- In 1983, Francis Shen and Hugh Scholaert bought an engineering company (aerospace, defense)
- In 2000 Aastra acquired the rights to manufacture phones under the NortelNortelNortel Networks Corporation, formerly known as Northern Telecom Limited and sometimes known simply as Nortel, was a multinational telecommunications equipment manufacturer headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada...
name. - In 2003, Aastra acquired the ASCOM PBX division.
- In 2005, 75% of Aastra Technologies'sales were made in Europe, having purchased that year the EADS Enterprise Telephony Business and the DeTeWe Telecommunication Systems business (Germany), with 17% in the United States, and only 5% in Canada
- In 2008, Aastra received Internet Telephony's Best of Show Award for 2007 for Best Large Enterprise Solution
- On the 18 February 2008, Aastra acquired the enterprise PBX division of EricssonEricssonEricsson , one of Sweden's largest companies, is a provider of telecommunication and data communication systems, and related services, covering a range of technologies, including especially mobile networks...
.