Pictured are: Richard McBee, CEO of Mitel; Jim Hogan, Regional President of U.S. Voice & Data; Kevin Doyle, Regional VP of Sales for EmbraceCORTEL Technologies; Mike Ferry, Regional President of Standard Tel Networks; Ben Rizzo, VP of Marketing for BluePrint Technologies; Mike Nole, CEO of BluePrint Technologies; George Pacinelli, President of BluePrint Technologies; Mike Einstein, CEO of EmbraceCORTEL Technologies; Michael Promotico, CEO of Standard Tel Networks, Philip Keenan, Executive VP North America for Mitel.

Standard Tel Networks and other BluePrint Technologies Inc. Subsidiaries Honored Channel Partners at Mitel Business Partner Conference 2011

Awarded for Outstanding Business Performance, Customer Satisfaction and Growth in Application Adoption

San Diego, CA, June 16, 2011 - Standard Tel Networks along with the other BluePrint Technologies Inc. regional subsidiaries, announced today they have been recognized by Mitel (Nasdaq:MITL) with awards for fiscal year 2011. Mitel, a leading provider of unified communications and collaboration (UCC) software solutions, presented its channel awards at the Mitel Business Partner Conference 2011 at The Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa in Hollywood, Florida on June 3, 2011. Channel partners from around the world were recognized for their outstanding business performance, customer satisfaction, increased revenue performance, technical expertise, and overall growth in FY 2011.
 
Standard Tel Networks and the other BluePrint Technologies Inc. regional subsidiaries, Brookside Technology Partners, U.S. Voice & Data, and EmbraceCORTEL received MITEL’s highest level of “Diamond” status for the third consecutive year as one of only three (3) Diamond level Channel partners in all of North America. In addition, BluePrint and its subsidiaries were all recipients of Mitel’s Applications Channel Partner of the Year. Lastly, BluePrint’s West Coast subsidiary Standard Tel Networks, with offices in San Diego, Orange County and Sacramento, garnered Mitel’s Mobility Specialist Channel Partner of the Year to round out the honors.

"I would like to congratulate all of the 2011 Mitel Business Partner Conference winners," said Rich McBee, Mitel president and CEO. "It is important to us that we continue to build a best in class network of channel partners to help us deliver to our customers tailored unified communications and collaboration solutions based on the Mitel Freedom architecture. We commend the dedication and hard work of all our channel partners."

Standard Tel, along with the other BluePrint Technologies regional subsidiaries, is a leading provider of VoIP, Mobility, Unified Communications, and Video and Web conferencing amongst a myriad of additional business communication related products and services. Specializing in analyzing, designing, selling, and implementation, Standard Tel offers a unique portfolio of products and services that solve today's business communications challenges by combining technology, business, and financial solutions to a national customer base that includes commercial enterprise as well as state/government organizations within a wide variety of vertical markets.

Michael Nole, BluePrint Technologies Chairman and CEO, commented by saying, “We at BluePrint are extremely proud of our partnership with Mitel. Many businesses are shifting in structure from “traditional” to “eco-system” based models to more efficiently connect employees and customers through multiple devices. Doing so is not only environmentally sustainable, but also significantly expands the size of the market regardless of vertical. The flexibility offered by Mitel’s “Freedom” architecture enables true virtualization, unified communication, collaboration and mobility for our ever-expanding customer base throughout the United States.”