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Summit Automotive Standardizes on Mitel for Seamless Communication Across Growing Dealership Empire
Date : 05/12/2010 @ 9:00AM
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Summit Automotive Standardizes on Mitel for Seamless Communication Across Growing Dealership Empire

PHOENIX, ARIZONA -- (Marketwire)
05/12/10
Mitel (NASDAQ: MITL)

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News Facts:

-- Mitel® (NASDAQ: MITL), a trusted provider of unified communications

software solutions, today announced that Summit Automotive has

standardized its voice architecture with Mitel in order to meet the

speed, deployment, and scale needs of its rapidly expanding family of

automotive dealerships.

-- Summit Automotive Partners, a member of the Booth Creek Management, LLC

portfolio, selected Mitel as its communications provider. This decision

is based on Mitel's robust and flexible architecture and seamless

integration of voice and data in a virtualized environment.

-- Summit has already begun deployment of the Mitel Communications Director

(MCD), Mitel Unified IP Client for Sun Ray?, and Mitel Applications

Suite (MAS), in concert, across its entire existing dealership group.

-- Mitel's ease of deployment and flexibility is consistent with Summit's

growth strategy. That strategy necessitates Summit to meet standard

vehicle manufacturer requirements on retooling within a 72-hour window

when there is an ownership change.

-- The flexible deployment architecture of MCD allows Summit to loosely

couple locations into a highly adaptable and resilient network, and

decouple if they choose to divest a location.

-- The nature of Summit's distributed dealership network and decoupling

requirements drove a company-wide thin client strategy. Mitel Unified IP

Client for Sun Ray provides simplified and secure authentication for

both voice and data, allowing unified hotdesking for enhanced workforce

flexibility. It also enables Summit to drop thin clients into place and

configure credential information in the back office which simplifies

desktop management while reducing costs.

-- Enhancing Summit's thin client strategy is Mitel's pedigree in

virtualized voice. In the future, it will allow Summit to seamlessly

leverage existing VMware® investments with both the Mitel voice and

Sun Ray environments. These environments will be virtualized to

complement Summit's IT efforts on best practices.

-- The enterprise grade, flexible and high performance Mitel technology is

matched by its Mitel TotalSolutions Program (TSP), which helps Summit

effectively plan for expenditures on an operating expense basis. This

enables Summit to streamline investments and increase project cost

accuracy to a low single digit percentage point. This is essential in

the strategy through which Summit grows its business.

Quotes:

"Summit Automotive is a great example of the type of organization that thrives with Mitel. These companies are dynamic and growing, and flourish when supported by Mitel's flexibility and advanced architecture through offerings such as virtualized voice that bring performance enhancements that drive bottom line results."

- Rick Dell, President, US, Mitel

"We selected a Mitel Unified Communications Solution because when as we looked at the IP telephony space we found there were few players that could provide us the growth and scalability that is required in retail automotive."

- Chad Griewahn, CTO, Booth Creek IT, LLC, parent company for Summit Automotive

About Summit Automotive Partners

Summit Automotive Partners is an integrated group of successful dealerships committed to building lasting relationships with customers, employees, manufacturers and local communities. Summit's broad resources and technology capabilities, combined with the expertise of dealership partners, allow them to create an unmatched sales experience. Summit continues to fuel its growth through customer and employee empowerment, acquiring or partnering with outstanding dealership groups and by bringing a hallmark collaborative approach to every facet of operations.

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

Some of the statements in this press release are forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable U.S. and 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 nature, or the negatives of those statements, identify forward-looking statements. In particular, this press release may contain 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. 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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