LITTLE ROCK, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Windstream (NYSE: WIN) has entered into an agreement with Mitel to offer
business customers an expanded portfolio of feature-rich communications
solutions.
Mitel is a leader in providing reliable, flexible and easy-to-manage
communications solutions to organizations of any size. Windstream has
been selling Mitel equipment to customers in the Carolinas, and now
business customers across Windstream's 16-state footprint can take
advantage of Mitel's wide range of equipment and service options.
Windstream can customize a communications solution to help streamline
any size business, and maintenance and financing options are available.
"We are pleased to expand the availability of the Mitel product line
within our equipment inventory," said Don Wilborne, Windstream senior
vice president of business sales. "We offer our customers a wide range
of phone systems and communication solutions to help their businesses
run more efficiently."
The two flagship Mitel products that Windstream now offers in all
markets are:
-- Mitel SX-200 IP Communications Platform
The Mitel SX-200 IP Communications Platform (ICP) is a feature-rich
Voice over IP communications system that provides "large company"
communications benefits and applications to small and medium-sized
businesses. The SX-200 ICP provides an extensive key or PBX system
feature set and applications to help businesses enhance customer
service, increase employee productivity, and reduce capital expenditures
and operating costs.
-- Mitel 3300 IP Communications Platform
The Mitel 3300 IP Communications Platform (ICP) provides enterprises
with a highly scalable communications system designed to support
businesses with 30-60,000 users. The 3300 ICP provides enterprise IP-PBX
capability plus a range of embedded applications including standard
unified messaging, auto-attendant, ACD and wireless gateway. The 3300
ICP supports over 500 telephony features and a powerful suite of
applications including multimedia collaboration, customer relationship
management and unified messaging.
"We are delighted to be working with Windstream," said Paul Butcher,
Mitel's chief operating officer. "Windstream fully recognizes the value
of unified communications for its customers by providing them with
solutions to remove the distance barriers from communications through IP
telephony and associated applications."
About Mitel
Mitel delivers flexibility and simplicity in smart unified
communications solutions and applications for organizations of all
sizes. Combined with a full range of managed services that include voice
and data network design and traffic provisioning, custom application
development, and attractive financing options, Mitel is reinventing how
successful organizations gain competitive advantage by easily
collaborating and communicating over distance and time with customers,
colleagues and partners. Mitel's (www.mitel.com)
US headquarters are in Phoenix, AZ. Global headquarters are in Ottawa,
Canada, with offices, partners, and resellers worldwide.
About Windstream
Windstream Corporation is an S&P 500 company that provides digital
phone, high-speed Internet and high-definition video and entertainment
services to residential and business customers in 16 states. The company
has approximately 3.1 million access lines and about $3.2 billion in
annual revenues. For more information, visit www.windstream.com.