Toshiba Receives INTERNET TELEPHONY® Magazine's New 'INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence' Award for 2005; Toshiba's Strata CIX Lauded for Delivering Solutions That Improve VoIP/IP Telephony

Business Wire, Dec 7, 2005

IRVINE, Calif. -- Toshiba America Information Systems Inc., Digital Solutions Division (TAIS DSD), announced today that Technology Marketing Corp. (TMC(R))'s INTERNET TELEPHONY(R) magazine (www.itmag.com) has named Toshiba's Strata(R) CIX(TM) IP business communication system as a recipient of an INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award for 2005.

"The editorial staff of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine is proud to announce Toshiba as a winner of the first-ever INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Awards," said Rich Tehrani, editor-in-chief of INTERNET TELEPHONY. "With its Strata CIX IP business communication system, Toshiba has proven that it delivers VoIP solutions that solve their customers' needs."

Greg Galitzine, editorial director of INTERNET TELEPHONY, added, "Toshiba has proven to the editors of INTERNET TELEPHONY that it has excelled in the VoIP/IP telephony industry, and most importantly, its customers are willing to speak up and offer themselves as references."

"Toshiba's Strata CIX family brings together the best of IP telephony with the broad feature set that is usually only found in TDM-based PBX systems, plus it allows users to mix and match both IP and TDM on the same system, allowing them to use digital telephones for local users or where IP does not make sense," said Larry Meyer, vice president of sales and marketing of TAIS DSD. "In keeping with Toshiba's goal to never leave a customer behind, the Strata CIX is both backward compatible with Toshiba's Strata CTX(R) digital communication systems as well as forward compatible to future Toshiba platforms."

The INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award winners for 2005 were published in the October issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine.

About Toshiba's Strata CIX

Toshiba's Strata CIX is designed for small- to medium-sized enterprises or larger corporate users with multiple sites and supports up to 672 ports. It can be run as a pure IP system or can be TDM-enabled, allowing enterprises to use IP where it makes sense. Strata CIX also offers virtually all the features of Toshiba's traditional TDM systems in a pure IP solution and provides a smooth migration path from Toshiba Strata CTX and Strata DK digital business communication systems.

It is the industry's only business communications system with FeatureFlex(TM), which allows users to customize or create features enabling greater flexibility and improved efficiency. Enterprises can create features companywide, by department, or for individual users.

About Toshiba America Information Systems Inc.

With headquarters in Irvine, TAIS is comprised of three divisions: Digital Products Division, Digital Solutions Division and the Storage Device Division. Together, the three divisions provide mobile products and solutions, telecommunications, imaging and storage products and services. Products include industry-leading portable computers, projectors, DVD/CD recordable products and hard disk drives for computers, telephony products, digital imaging systems, wireless solutions and services.

TAIS provides sales, marketing and services for its wide range of information products in the United States and Latin America. TAIS is an independent operating company owned by Toshiba America Inc., a subsidiary of Toshiba Corp., which is a world leader in high technology and integrated manufacturing of electrical and electronic components, products and systems. Toshiba has global sales of over $52 billion and more than 300 subsidiaries and affiliates worldwide. For more information visit the company's Web site at www.toshiba.com.

About TMC(TM)

Technology Marketing Corp. (TMC) publishes two print magazines: Customer Interaction Solutions, and INTERNET TELEPHONY; five digital publications, SIP Magazine, Speech-World, WiFi Telephony Magazine, VoIP Developer, WiMAX Magazine; and the online publications TMCnet.com, Planet PDA Magazine, WiFi Revolution, Alternative Power and BiometriTech. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, The VoIP Developer Conference, Speech-World Conference, IP Contact Center Summit and The Global Call Center Outsourcing Summit. TMCnet.com publishes more than 25 topical online newsletters. For more information about TMC, visit its Web site at www.tmcnet.com.

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