Aria Communications Joins ShoreTel Distribution Network

SYDNEY, Australia, Aug. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ShoreTel, Inc.,
(Nasdaq: SHOR), a leading provider of Pure IP Unified Communications (UC)
solutions, today announced the appointment of Aria Technologies as a national
distributor for ShoreTel in Australia.
Australian-owned Aria Technologies, formerly known as Aria Communications
Pty Ltd, is one of the leading distributors of telecommunications equipment
and solutions in Australia and also supplies systems to Australia's largest
carrier Telstra under the Telstra brand.
Under the agreement, Aria Technologies will offer ShoreTel's Unified
Communications solutions to its extensive network of local value-added
resellers (VARs). Based on a unique distributed software architecture and
innovative product design, the ShoreTel Unified Communications solution
provides enterprise-class reliability and scales from ten to tens of thousands
of users. It is designed and built from the ground up to be the market's
easiest to use, easiest to manage, full-featured Unified Communications
system.
"Aria Technologies has a strong, dynamic and growing business with an
extensive channel network and an extremely strong working relationship with
its customers," said Tony Warhurst, managing director, SE Asia for ShoreTel.
"Like ShoreTel, Aria Technologies is fully committed to its channel
partnerships and customer satisfaction."
ShoreTel is expected to gain access to the considerable Telstra market in
Australia served by Aria's VARs and aggressively pursue market share in the
local UC sector.
According to Rob Pierce, general manager of Aria Technologies in
Australia, adding ShoreTel to Aria's product suite was the natural choice
based on its strong reputation in the Unified Communications space.
"We identified the markets that had immense opportunities for us, but in
which we were not currently playing. We looked at companies that were active
in both the IP telephony and larger enterprise space in Australia. Although
there were potential opportunities to form a relationship with other vendors
out there, we approached ShoreTel because of their growing reputation in
Unified Communications. We were impressed by the company's technically strong
solutions," said Rob Pierce
About ShoreTel, Inc.
ShoreTel, Inc., (Nasdaq: SHOR) is a leading provider of Pure IP Unified
Communications solutions. ShoreTel enables companies of any size to seamlessly
integrate all communications -- voice, video, messaging and data -- with their
business processes. Independent of device or location, ShoreTel's distributed
software architecture eliminates the traditional costs, complexity and
reliability issues typically associated with other solutions. ShoreTel
continues to deliver the highest levels of customer satisfaction, ease of use
and manageability while driving down the overall total cost of ownership.
ShoreTel is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and has regional offices
in the United Kingdom, Sydney, Australia and Munich, Germany. For more
information, visit http://www.shoretel.com or call 02 9959 8000
About Aria Technologies
Aria Technologies (formerly Aria Communications Pty Ltd) is the exclusive
Australian distributor for LG-Nortel systems for Australia and the Pacific,
and a national distributor for ShoreTel in Australia. Aria Technologies
currently distributes the Number 1 selling system in the 0-100 equipped end
market* and also supplies systems to Australia's largest carrier Telstra,
under the Telstra brand. Founded in January 2000, Aria Technologies is a
wholly owned Australian company with presence in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane
and Perth, and with over 180 Dealers located throughout Australia and the
Pacific. Aria has won many top international distributor awards including the
prestigious "International Distributor of the Year 2007" LG-Nortel's global
top award. Visit http://www.ariatech.com.au.
Media Contacts:
Karen O'Grady Kim Rose
Upstream Australia ShoreTel, Inc.
61.2.9377.1125 408-331-3357
karen.ogrady@upstreamaustralia.com krose@ShoreTel.com

SOURCE ShoreTel, Inc.

Karen O'Grady of Upstream Australia, +61.2.9377.1125,
karen.ogrady@upstreamaustralia.com, for ShoreTel, Inc.; or Kim Rose of
ShoreTel, Inc., +1-408-331-3357, krose@ShoreTel.com