Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. Telecommunication Systems Division

IRVINE, Calif., October 28, 2008 —Toshiba America Information Systems Inc., Telecommunication Systems Division (Toshiba — www.telecom.toshiba.com) announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) has named Toshiba’s family of Strata® CIX™ IP business communication systems a recipient of a 2008 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award presented by INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine (www.itmag.com). The award winners were published in the October 2008 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine.

“We are proud that Toshiba has been honored with a 2008 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award,” said Brian Metherell, vice president and general manager for Toshiba America Information Systems, Telecommunication Systems Division. “This award is especially meaningful because it is in recognition of the contributions of our Toshiba Strata VoIP system to our customers.”

“For our customer Lake Highland Preparatory School, we worked with Authorized Toshiba Dealer Black Box Network Services of Orlando, Fla., to deliver a system that met the school’s goals of being virtually lightning-proof, improving efficiencies, and saving more than $100,000 over the first two years,” he added.

“With customer accolades for its Strata CIX IP business communication systems, Toshiba has proven its outstanding contribution to IP communications and delivered a winning solution,” said Rich Tehrani, editor-in-chief of INTERNET TELEPHONY.

About Toshiba’s Strata CIX IP Communication Systems
Toshiba’s family of Strata CIX IP communication systems gives 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 to meet the unique needs of the enterprise. Supporting up to 1,000 users, Strata CIX systems provide Toshiba’s FeatureFlex® customization capabilities, can be TDM-enabled to support digital telephones, and provide a smooth migration path from Toshiba Strata CTX® and Strata DK digital business communication systems.

Toshiba Success Story: Lake Highland Preparatory School
Founded in 1970, Lake Highland Preparatory School (LHPS) is an independent college preparatory school located in Orlando, Fla., that educates 2,050 students in grades Pre-K through 12. The school’s mission is to instill Christian values, inspire patriotism, develop future leaders, and prepare students for college and lifelong learning through academically challenging programs and affirming competitive experiences.

The Challenge: Florida is the lightning capital of the United States, and the school faced downtime of its telephone system nearly every summer when lightning hit and shorted-out the copper wiring that connects its buildings. The school wanted a system that would be lightning resistant, would grow with them, network its buildings campus-wide, and handle the thousands of calls it receives each week. They also wanted a system that could be remotely administered from the technology manager’s office, plus affordable price, cost savings and a strong warranty.

The Solution: To create a lightning-resistant system as well as prepare for future growth, Authorized Toshiba Dealer Black Box Network Services of Orlando, Fla., designed a system with four Toshiba Strata CIX IP business communication systems for the main buildings plus an additional eight remote locations supported entirely by IP telephones. All 12 sites are networked using Toshiba’s Strata Net via IP over fiber, thus entirely eliminating the conductive copper path between the buildings that was responsible for lightning-related outages of the phone system.

System Benefits: The new Toshiba communications system eliminated downtime due to lightning strikes by using VoIP over fiber and eliminated copper wiring between buildings campus-wide; enabled in-house administration with Toshiba’s eManager®, allowing the system administrator to manage the entire system from her desktop; supplied a mix of IP, digital and console telephones to ensure that the users have the right telephone for their needs, using digital for mobile and remote users and digital for static workers to save costs and reduce demand on the LAN; and provided the best price via migration and warranty, which enabled the re-use of the school’s older equipment saving more than $72,000, plus about $24,000 annually in lightning repair costs.

Bottom Line: Toshiba delivered on the school’s objectives of having a system that was lightning resistant, and there has been absolutely no lightning damage and no downtime since the system was installed. The system also delivered VoIP benefits, including eliminating the conductive copper connections as well as giving the benefits of IP phone mobility without service calls. In addition, centralized voice mail also helps improve internal and external communication. The system delivered cost savings of more than $100,000 in the first two years and continues to deliver ongoing savings of $7,000 annually.

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 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 $76 billion (FY2007). For more information on Toshiba’s leading innovations, visit the company’s Web site at www.toshiba.com.

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