Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. Telecommunication Systems Division

IRVINE, Calif., January 29, 2008 —Toshiba America Information Systems Inc., Telecommunication Systems Division (Toshiba — www.telecom.toshiba.com) announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation’s (TMC®) INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine (www.itmag.com) has named the Toshiba Strata® MicroMAS as a recipient of its 2007 Product of the Year Award. The Product of the Year winners will be published in the February 2008 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine.

“We are proud that Toshiba’s Strata MicroMAS platform is being honored with a 2007 Product of the Year Award from Internet Telephony Magazine,” said Brian Metherell, vice president and general manager for Toshiba America Information Systems Telecommunication Systems Division. “We are delivering a comprehensive, integrated unified communications solution. Combined with Toshiba’s Strata CIX VoIP system, Toshiba Strata MicroMAS is a key component in Toshiba’s bid for dominance in the SMB IP solutions marketplace.”

“With its Toshiba Strata MicroMAS, Toshiba’s team has proven they are committed to quality and excellence while addressing real needs in the marketplace. INTERNET TELEPHONY is pleased to grant a 2007 Product of the Year Award to Toshiba’s Strata MicroMAS,” said Rich Tehrani, TMC President and Editor-in-Chief of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine.

About Toshiba Strata MicroMAS
Toshiba Strata MicroMAS Media Application Server platform delivers an optimizeddesktop-size server-based multiple-application business communications solution tosmaller enterprises. Sized and priced just right for smaller enterprises, Strata MicroMAS consolidates communications applications onto a single server, helping SMB enterprises save money, space, and time managing their telephony resources.

Designed to complement Toshiba’s Strata CIX™ family of VoIP systems, and especially good news for the smaller CIX100 and CIX40 VoIP systems for small- to medium-sized businesses, Strata MicroMAS hosts a variety of diverse applications that increase a company’s ability to communicate effectively with its customers, including: Auto Attendant, Voice Mail, Unified Messaging, Automated Speech Recognition, Fax, Text to Speech, Interactive Voice Response, Automatic Call Distribution and Reporting, Webbased Personal and System Administration, Web-based Telephone Applications, FeatureFlex™ customization tools, and other third-party applications.

With Toshiba’s Strata MicroMAS, smaller enterprises can have the same multipleapplication single server solution in 2–8 port configurations as their medium- to largesized counterparts have with the MAS in 4–32 port configurations. Strata MicroMAS is ideal for use with Toshiba’s Strata CIX100 and CIX40 VoIP systems, which support up to 72 and 24 users, respectively.

About INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine
INTERNET TELEPHONY has been the VoIP Authority since 1998™. 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 pass-along readers. For more information, please visit www.itmag.com.

About TMC
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes Customer Interaction 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 6,000 most visited Web sites in the world by alexa.com*, TMCnet serves as many as 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. 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 was founded in 1875, and today operates a global network of more than 740 companies, with 198,000 employees worldwide and annual sales surpassing US$76 billion. For more information on Toshiba's leading innovations, visit the company's Web site at www.toshiba.com

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