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BETHPAGE, NY and IRVINE, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 06/19/12 -- Cablevision Systems Corp. (NYSE: CVC), www.cablevision.com, and Toshiba America Information Systems Inc., Telecommunication Systems Division (Toshiba), www.telecom.toshiba.com, today announced interoperability certification between Optimum Voice® SIP Trunking from Optimum Business and Toshiba's IPedge® IP and Strata® CIX™ IP business telephone systems. The certified solutions deliver high-quality, reliable voice service for small and medium businesses that want to take full advantage of an IP PBX system while avoiding the cost of an analog gateway and/or traditional T1 solution.

Optimum Voice SIP Trunking supplies VoIP access and key network-based telephony features to pre-certified IP-PBXs, simplifying the configuration, reducing equipment costs, and improving the quality of voice service by providing an IP interface directly to the customer's LAN. It is delivered through a converged voice and data network that is supported 24/7 by dedicated customer support and field service professionals. Toshiba joins a growing list of technology partners working with Optimum Business to provide an affordable, easy-to-manage communications system for small businesses.

"With Optimum Voice SIP Trunking, small business customers can now take advantage of advanced voice and data services without capacity constraints of T1-based services," said Joseph Varello, Cablevision's vice president of business and voice product management. "Combining our SIP Trunking service with Toshiba's IP business telephone systems gives customers access to sophisticated voice features, simplified configuration, reduced equipment costs and significant room to scale versus traditional business trunking solutions offered by the telephone company. Optimum Voice SIP Trunking is now pre-certified with an extensive group of technology partners and can assure interoperability with all their customer devices."

The interoperability certification for Optimum Voice SIP Trunking spans Toshiba's full family of telephone systems, which includes IPedge EM, EP and EC models as well as Strata CIX40, CIX100, CIX200, CIX670 and CIX1200 models. Optimum Voice SIP Trunking is available through Optimum Business as well as third-party resellers, including Authorized Toshiba Dealers, in the New York Metropolitan Area.