Aastra is a Canadian company that in many fields, especially communications, IP-based communications component is one of the leading companies. In fact, there are many products in the field of VoIP has spread to almost all areas covered. The company is the third largest supplier of VoIP equipment in Europe.

Aastra company in 1983 their activities by providing technical services in Canada began in 1993 was telecommunications activities. The unprecedented growth of the company in 1996, the company's stock, and the investment in research of $ 6 million in 1996 to $ 100 million in 1999 increased. From 2000 to 2002, the combined activities in the field of telecommunication products with Lucent and Nortel companies did. In 2003 Ascom's enterprise PBX, PBX, companies took over and in 2005, EADS Telecom and DeTeWe did production.

The company in 2008 was the joint Ericsson and now all IP-based communication products introduced by the company Ericsson and the ad produced by Aastra. After the integration of Aastra-Ericsson's share of total global IP-based business to about 16 percent. The following table represents the share of VoIP companies active in the global market, which has been prepared by the Institute for EMEA.