Toshiba Receives a 2007 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award

Business Wire, Oct 24, 2007

Toshiba Strata CIX IP Business Communication System Honored for Delivering Exceptional VoIP Communications Solutions

IRVINE, Calif. -- Toshiba America Information Systems Inc., Telecommunication Systems Division (Toshiba -- www.telecom.toshiba.com) today announced that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) has named the Strata[R] CIX[TM] IP business communication system a winner of a 2007 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award from INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine (www.itmag.com). The 2007 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award winners have been published in the October 2007 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine.

"We are especially proud of the 2007 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award because it is given in recognition to the contribution of the Toshiba Strata CIX IP system to IP communications overall but also because it is based on customer testimonials," said Brian Metherell, vice president and general manager of Toshiba America Information Systems, Telecommunication Systems Division.

"Taking risks to advance VoIP technology and provide real solutions has earned Toshiba recognition from the editors of INTERNET TELEPHONY and an INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award. The Toshiba Strata CIX has excelled in delivering IP business solutions. Toshiba's Strata CIX customers are extremely pleased and have offered their testaments of support," said Greg Galitzine, editorial director of INTERNET TELEPHONY.

Toshiba customer Murad Inc., a leading skincare products company, provided a testimonial for the award application. Murad relies on its Toshiba Strata CIX IP system to connect its facilities and mobile workers worldwide. Among the benefits of the Toshiba Strata CIX system to Murad are: Smooth handling of 20,000 calls per month; the ability to mix-and-match IP and digital endpoints to meet users' requirements; Unified Messaging capabilities; robust call center management; remote locations connected over IP; and all applications on a single server including auto attendant, voice mail, voice response, ACD and Web-based system administration. The IP-based system improves communications and saves Murad $25,000 per year over its prior system.

About the Toshiba Strata CIX Family of IP Business Communication systems

Toshiba's family of Strata CIX IP business communication systems give SMB enterprises and large enterprises with multiple locations the power to have fully featured VoIP systems at an affordable price. The Strata CIX systems deliver Voice over IP, networking, mobility, and the ability to customize applications using Toshiba's FeatureFlex[R] customization capabilities to meet the unique needs of the enterprise. Supporting up to 672 ports, Strata CIX systems can be TDM-enabled to support digital telephones and provide a smooth migration path from Toshiba Strata CTX[R] and Strata DK digital business communication systems. To find an Authorized Toshiba Dealer in your area, visit the Toshiba website at www.telecom.toshiba.com.

About INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine

INTERNET TELEPHONY has been the VoIP Authority since 1998[TM]. Since the first issue in February of 1998, INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has been providing unbiased views of the complicated converged communications space. INTERNET TELEPHONY offers rich content from solutions-focused editorial content to reviews on products and services from TMC Labs. INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has a circulation of 225,000 including passalong readers. For more information please visit www.itmag.com.

About TMC

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes Customer Inter@ction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, and IMS Magazine. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 5,200 most visited Web sites in the world by alexa.com*, TMCnet serves three million unique visitors each month. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, and Call Center 2.0 Conference and Green Technology World Conference. For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com. (*alexa.com is an amazon.com company that ranks Web sites by their traffic levels. Neither alexa.com nor amazon.com is affiliated with TMCnet.) For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.

About Toshiba America Information Systems Inc. (TAIS)

Headquartered in Irvine, Calif., TAIS is comprised of four business units: Digital Products Division, Imaging Systems Division, Storage Device Division, and Telecommunication Systems Division. Together, these divisions provide mobile products and solutions, including industry leading portable computers; projectors; imaging products for the security, medical and manufacturing markets; storage products for automotive, computer and consumer electronics applications; and telephony equipment and associated applications.

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 Corporation, which is a global leader in high technology and integrated manufacturing of electrical and electronic components, products and systems, as well as major infrastructure systems. Toshiba has more than 191,000 employees worldwide and annual sales of over US $60 billion (FY2006). For more information on Toshiba's leading innovations, visit the company's Web site at www.toshiba.com.