AstraNetworks Expands its Telecommunication Offering with a Unique Partnership between OnSIP-PBX in the Cloud Service, and Panasonic Business Telephones

FAIRPORT, NY, April 10, 2013

AstraNetworks announced today an expansion of its telecommunication solutions for businesses in western New York, with a unique partnership. The association combines OnSIP-PBX in the cloud service, providing businesses flexible, scalable, and affordable hosted IP-PBX service, connected to Panasonic SIP phones anywhere through the Internet, with local assessment and design, setup, training and support provided by Fairport, NY based, AstraNetworks.

With OnSIP service, businesses have their entire PBX in the cloud, with no major upfront expense and no ongoing maintenance contracts or upgrade costs. Customers pay only an affordable monthly fee. Calls to distant offices and workers within the PBX are free.

Users can make and receive calls from any device, from anywhere (with an Internet connection), even a Smartphone or laptop with a SIP extension app. Each user gets one number and one mailbox. No longer do callers have to call the office, a cell phone or a home office to track down an employee. One call rings all devices associated with the user.

Because the service is cloud based, HQ personnel, remote workers, mobile executives and detached offices are connected together as if they are all in one location. Users can call a colleague in their home office with a simple 4-digit extension, or a caller can be transferred to an employee at a distant office with the push of a button. Operators in different cities can provide coverage on any incoming call.

Daniel C. Cashman, President and CEO of AstraNetworks, says, "As businesses become more mobile and dispersed, this unique partnership offers an exciting solution for a number of companies with detached offices, remote workers and mobile employees. In addition, SMBs and startups looking for low initial investments for a telephone system will find this service very attractive, as well ."

OnSIP-PBX in the Cloud includes many enterprise-class telephone features like automated attendant with routing by hour of day, voice mailboxes, dial by name directory, group routing, ACD routing and message-on-hold. But, you also get voice mails sent to your email (then play them back on your Smartphone and save them in Outlook), a conference bridge and My.OnSIP, a unified communication management application.

Businesses looking to enhance their business continuity strategy will benefit from OnSIPs redundancy and reliability. The company maintains three mirror operational centers geographically spread around the country to ensure continuous service no matter what disaster befalls one region. If one should go off-line for any reason, all services are switched to another site without missing a beat. In addition, the company's security and backup power systems ensure the services availability and uptime.

Service administration is easy for the IT manager or administration manager through a straight-forward, question-answer style web interface.

Panasonic phones are long known for their durability and reliability. The company's new line of 6-corded SIP phones spans from simple phones to executive models with touch screen capability. In addition they offer 2 DECT cordless SIP models.

AstraNetworks ties the services and phones together with its strategic advice. The company will work with customers to assess their needs, design an implementation, program the service and phones and provide user training and ongoing support.

About OnSIP
Having helped over 15,000 customers, OnSIP is a leading provider of business VoIP service to small and medium-sized businesses. OnSIP customers enjoy the benefits of a business class phone system, without the traditional high initial cost, burden, and inflexibility. For more information, visit http://www.onsip.com.

About Panasonic Systems Networks Company of America
Based in Secaucus, NJ Panasonic System Networks Company of America is a unit of Panasonic Corporation of North America, the principal North American subsidiary of Panasonic Corporation (NYSE: PC). A comprehensive business to business solution provider, the company develops and delivers reliable, affordable, and flexible solutions for communication, collaboration, security and productivity. The complete suite of solutions addresses Cloud-based services, other home and business communications, security and surveillance systems, retail information systems, and office productivity solutions among others, keeping Panasonic customers connected, informed, accessible and secure. For more information, visit http://www.panasonic.com/psna.

About AstraNetworks
AstraNetworks is a Fairport, NY based company that provides businesses in western New York state, principally Rochester, Buffalo and Syracuse with comprehensive telecommunication solutions including Panasonic telephone systems/Cloud service, Time Warner and EarthLink phone and Internet services, Polycom conference solutions, InterCall conference and collaboration service and Verizon mobile solutions. AstraNetworks provides customers with the strategic advice to implement this complete suite of solutions to improve a company's strategic competitive position, thus improving profitability. For more information, visit http://www.AstraNetworks.net.

Editorial Contacts:
Daniel C. Cashman
AstraNetworks
585-414-7730
dcashman@astranetworks.net