1. Mitel Honored With Frost & Sullivan 2010 Global New Product Innovation Award
Virtual Mitel Communications Director recognized for technology leadership in the enterprise telephony
platform and endpoints market
OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Jun 2, 2010 (Marketwire via COMTEX News Network) -- Editor's note: A photo and a video are associated
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Mitel® (NASDAQ:MITL) today announced that Virtual Mitel Communications Director (Virtual MCD) has been recognized by
Frost & Sullivan as the recipient of the 2010 Global New Product Innovation of the Year Award in the World Enterprise
Telephony Platform and Endpoints Market. Mitel received the award in recognition of its performance against key competitors
in terms of product innovation, use of leading-edge technologies, delivery of value-added benefits and features, ability to
deliver superior customer ROI, and customer penetration potential.
Virtual MCD, the core call control of Mitel's Virtual Solutions software portfolio, is a software package download that leverages
VMware® vSphere™4. The solution enables customers to consolidate Mitel's real-time voice applications alongside non-voice
business applications in the datacenter.
Virtual MCD customers can benefit from: capital savings through reduction of server hardware and real estate; operations
savings with the decrease in power and server costs; productivity improvements and resource efficiencies in datacenter
management; and simplified business continuity and disaster recovery plans.
"As organizations work towards streamlining business processes through their IT and communications infrastructure,
virtualization of both real-time and non-real-time applications is promising to drastically change the way communications
networks will operate in the future," said Elka Popova, program director, Frost & Sullivan. "While other telephony vendors are
making attempts to virtualize call control and applications, Mitel has leapfrogged the competition by becoming the first voice
vendor to enable its call process server to run on an industry-standard virtualization platform. This addresses a major pain
point of businesses - delivering communications solutions irrespective of location, device, and time."
"We have worked in tandem with Mitel for more than two years to be able to run real-time voice applications in a virtualized
environment," says Parag Patel, vice president, Global Strategic Alliances Organization, VMware. "Because of this combined
effort, Mitel is a leader in the global market of virtual voice solutions and we will continue to work together to create innovative
joint solutions."
The report further states that by providing the ability to run real-time and non-real-time communications applications, Virtual
MCD will address the need to deliver communications solutions irrespective of location, device, and time. Virtual MCD can also
provide the ability for organizations to scale application deployment without incurring large-scale investments. Frost & Sullivan
expects that these factors will drive accelerated adoption in the next few years. Furthermore, although traditionally considered
as a solution for enterprise businesses, SMBs that have a growing need for affordable IP telephony and unified
communications suites, may find communications virtualization a very attractive alternative to accelerate deployment without
having to make excessive investments.
"Our work with VMware has enabled voice solutions to run as another application in the data center. IT managers already
running VMware technology can easily deploy Virtual MCD with little to no training," said Stephen Beamish, vice president of
marketing and business development, Mitel. "Mitel Virtual Solutions can also relieve some major challenges for businesses by
streamlining business continuity strategies, reducing hardware costs, and freeing up resources to focus on other strategic IT
projects. This has been demonstrated through a number of virtualized solutions that Mitel customers have deployed globally."
"Virtualization played a major role in simplifying and hardening our datacenter against service interruptions, however voice was
still an issue. Now that we can virtualize telephony, we can extend all of the benefits of disaster recovery and cost savings to
the phones," said James Strack, chief information officer, ALM Holding Company, a privately-held road construction and
resources company with more than 2,000 employees and offices in five states. "Additionally our staff has seen a paradigm shift
in their duties from putting out fires and working weekends to more strategic forward looking research. Morale is greatly
improved and the IT staff is able to do visionary line-of-business research that helps the company grow."
Click here for the full Frost & Sullivan report.

2. About Mitel
Mitel Networks offers a comprehensive portfolio of IP-based communications solutions, which consists of IP telephony platforms,
unified communications and collaboration applications and managed and network services. By integrating voice, video and
data communications with business applications, Mitel enables businesses to improve their performance. Mitel is a leader in the
market evolution to unified communications and collaboration, enabling customers to move beyond basic fixed telephony and
disparate communications tools toward integrated multi-media communications and collaboration between users, wherever they
may be located. Mitel's U.S. headquarters are in Phoenix, Arizona. Global headquarters are in Ottawa, Canada, with offices,
partners, and resellers worldwide.
Forward-Looking Statements
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Canadian securities laws that reflect Mitel's current views with respect to future events and its financial results, performance,
financial position or achievements. Statements that include the words "may," "will," "should," "could," "estimate," "continue,"
"expect," "intend," "plan," "predict," "potential," "believe," "project," "anticipate" and similar statements of a forward-looking
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forward looking statements pertaining to, among other matters: general global economic conditions; Mitel's business strategy;
Mitel's plans and objectives for future operations; Mitel's industry; Mitel's future economic performance, profitability and
financial condition; the costs of operating as a public company; and Mitel's research and development expenditures. These
forward-looking statements reflect Mitel's current views with respect to future events and are based on assumptions and
subject to risks and uncertainties. In making these statements we have made assumptions regarding, among other things: no
unforeseen changes occurring in the competitive landscape that would affect our industry; a stable or recovering economic
environment; no significant event occurring outside the ordinary course of our business; and stable foreign exchange and
interest rates. Actual events or Mitel's results, performance, financial position or achievements could differ materially from those
contemplated, expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements as a result of various risks and uncertainties, including
the risks factors described under the heading "Risk Factors" in Mitel's prospectus, dated April 21, 2010, which has been filed
with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Canadian securities authorities. Except as required by law, Mitel is
under no obligation to update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or
otherwise.
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