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Canada Newswire English via NewsEdge Corporation :

Attention Business/Financial Editors

OTTAWA, ON, Aug. 30 /CNW Telbec/ - Mitel(R), a leading provider of IPcommunications solutions, for small and medium businesses and distributedenterprises, today announced that an industry research report released byInfonetics Research Inc. confirms the company’s growing market momentum.

“Out of all the incumbent players, Mitel has been at the forefront of theTDM to IP transition,” said Matthias Machowinski, directing analyst withInfonetics. “Many hybrid PBX vendors are still extensively relying on TDMtechnologies, and there are certainly valid reasons for doing so. The speed atwhich Mitel has moved from TDM to an IP architecture has reached all the waydown to the user, which is why we see them ahead of much larger competitors.In the end, customers are the real winners, as they’ll be able to takeadvantage of all the capabilities IP has to offer.”

According to the recently published “Enterprise Telephony, Quarterlyworldwide market share and forecasts for 2Q05″, Infonetics places Mitel secondworldwide in IP lines shipped on hybrid PBXs in the second quarter 2005 behindAlcatel with 21 percent. Mitel maintains its lead over Avaya and supplantedNortel in the quarter. Mitel’s market share of IP lines shipped on hybrid PBXsincreased two percentage points over the same period last year. In a study ofNorth American organizations using IP voice, Infonetics found that that hybridPBXs, already the most common equipment type used to provide voice services atrespondent headquarter sites, will be the future platform of choice, used by38 percent of respondents by January 2007 (up from 30 percent today).

“This is further independent validation that Mitel has completed itstransformation from a traditional PBX business to one where now fewer than 10percent of platforms we ship are TDM,” said Don Smith, Chief ExecutiveOfficer, Mitel. “We are bringing it all together with an award-winningportfolio of solutions, strong and deepening industry partnerships, and aunmatched focus to bring the value of IP Communications to business usersworldwide.”

Building on a foundation of 30-years success in enterprisecommunications, Mitel’s broad portfolio of IP communications solutionsprovides advanced voice, video and data communications platforms, desktopphones and Internet appliances, intuitive applications for customerrelationship management and mobility, messaging and multimedia collaborationover a single broadband network. These new IP-based communications platformsare designed to allow customers of all sizes to seamlessly implement and/ormigrate, in an evolutionary manner, without sacrificing any of the features orfunctionality of traditional Private Branch Exchange and Key TelephoneSystems. Through best-in-class strategic relationships Mitel can offerbusinesses the choice and flexibility of an end-to-end converged Local AreaNetwork or seamless interoperability with any existing infrastructure.

About Infonetics

Infonetics Research ( www.infonetics.com ) is the premier internationalmarket research and consulting firm specializing in data networking andtelecom. We provide a complete view of the market through constant interactionwith equipment manufacturers, service providers, end-users, chip and componentmanufacturers, sales channels, and the financial community.

About Mitel

Mitel is a market leader for voice, video and data convergence overbroadband networks. With a focus on the user experience, the company deliversadvanced communications solutions that are easily customized for individualbusiness needs. Mitel solutions extend from intuitive desktop appliances andapplications through to Applications and Services Gateways that enablebusiness process integration and enhancement. Customers are provided withinnovative ways to leverage their resources and migrate to the benefits of IPcommunications at their own pace. Mitel is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada,with offices, partners and resellers worldwide. For more information pleasevisit www.mitel.com .

Mitel and logo are registered trademarks of Mitel Networks Corporation.All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Contacts: Media: Paul Goyette, (613) 592-2122 x.2122, paul_goyette@mitel.com; Josh Silverman, (212) 679-3300 x.115, josh@ricochetpr.com; Analyst: Todd Simons, (613) 592-2122 x.1668, todd_simons@mitel.com

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