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Article content MARKHAM, Ontario — Sangoma Technologies Corporation (TSX: STC; Nasdaq: SANG) ('Sangoma'), a trusted industry leader offering businesses a choice of on-premises, cloud-based, or hybrid Communications as a Service solutions, announced today its expanded use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver scalable, secure, and unified cloud communications solutions to customers across industries. By leveraging a robust set of AWS services—including Amazon EKS, EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, ECR, S3, Route 53, and AWS Secrets Manager—Sangoma enables businesses to run its Cloud UCaaS platform (Business Voice) and advanced Contact Center solutions with high availability, reliability, and agility. Article content Article content This strategic implementation allows organizations to consolidate communications under a single provider while benefiting from the performance and stability of a cloud-native infrastructure. Article content 'Our customers want simplicity and performance without compromise,' said Charles Salameh, CEO of Sangoma. 'With our services powered by AWS, businesses are able to consolidate their communications needs with one trusted provider – on highly reliable cloud infrastructure. By building on AWS, we're delivering a secure, scalable platform that's purpose-built for the future. This collaboration serves as an example for how Sangoma can bring integrated, cloud-native solutions to mid-sized enterprises—setting a new standard for modern communications.' Article content Two organizations exemplifying the value of this solution are a large healthcare provider supporting remote patient coordination, and a nationally recognized breakfast restaurant chain with hundreds of locations. Both companies use Sangoma's UCaaS and Contact Center solutions on AWS to keep communications clear, teams connected, and day-to-day operations dependable. Article content The large home healthcare provider improved patient care by keeping distributed teams connected with AWS-powered 99.99% uptime and protecting sensitive data with HIPAA-compliant practices. Article content The national breakfast restaurant chain uses the Sangoma platform on AWS at its headquarters to support better guest services and simplify operations. The solution provides clear calls, quick setup, disaster readiness, and reliable communication during busy hours. Article content 'Sangoma's implementation of AWS helps organizations modernize communications, reduce costs, and run operations with confidence,' said Steve Teitelbaum, Head of Telco for North America at AWS. 'We're proud to support Sangoma's mission to bring flexible, scalable communications to companies across industries so they can focus more on core business operations.' Article content With AWS powering its services, Sangoma provides global scalability, enterprise-grade security, and easy integration, empowering essential communications for businesses of all sizes. Key AWS services in use include: Article content Amazon EKS & EC2 for container orchestration and elastic compute Amazon RDS & S3 for secure, scalable data storage Amazon ElastiCache & Route 53 for performance and global failover AWS ECR & Secrets Manager for DevOps efficiency and data protection Article content As more businesses move to cloud-first strategies, Sangoma's implementation of AWS services stands as a model for how technology providers can deliver unified, mission-critical solutions that grow with each customer's needs. Article content About Sangoma: Sangoma (TSX: STC; Nasdaq: SANG) is a leading business communications platform provider with solutions that include its award-winning UCaaS, CCaaS, CPaaS, and Trunking technologies. The enterprise-grade communications suite is developed in-house; available for cloud, hybrid, or on-premises deployments. Additionally, Sangoma's integrated approach provides managed services for connectivity, network, and security. A trusted communications partner with over 40 years on the market, Sangoma has over 2.7 million UC seats across a diversified base of over 100,000 customers. Sangoma has been recognized for ten years running in the Gartner UCaaS Magic Quadrant. As the primary developer and sponsor of the open-source Asterisk and FreePBX projects, Sangoma is determined to drive innovation in communication technology. For more information, visit Article content About AWS: Since 2006, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any workload, and it now has more than 240 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, media, and application development, deployment, and management from 108 Availability Zones within 34 geographic regions, with announced plans for 18 more Availability Zones and six more AWS Regions in Mexico, New Zealand, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Thailand, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit Article content Article content Article content Article content Article content Contacts Article content Article content Article content
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CI Global Asset Management Expands Private Pool Lineup with Six New Mandates
Article content Additions include three ETF Series focused on U.S. small caps, U.S. income and global dividends Article content TORONTO — CI Global Asset Management ('CI GAM') today launches six new mandates within its popular CI Private Pools lineup of investment solutions – including three 'dual-series' pools that are also available as ETFs. Article content The following mandates are now available in Series A, F, I and in the ETF Series noted below: Article content CI Global Dividend Private Pool. The pool has now closed its initial offering of ETF C$ Series units, which begin trading today on the Toronto Stock Exchange ('TSX') under the ticker CGDI. CI U.S. Monthly Income Private Pool. The pool has now closed its initial offering of ETF C$ Series units and ETF US$ Hedged Series units, which begin trading today on the TSX under the tickers CUIG and CUIG.U, respectively. CI U.S. Small/Mid Cap Equity Private Pool. The pool has now closed its initial offering of ETF C$ Series units, which begin trading today on the TSX under the ticker CSMD. Article content The following mandates are now available in Series A, F and I: Article content CI Private Pools are focused investment strategies with a competitive flat-fee structure. The lineup now includes 22 private pools, with mandates spanning a variety of asset classes, geographic regions and investment styles. Eight private pools are also available in ETF Series, trading on the TSX. Article content 'The CI Private Pools are actively managed, high-conviction portfolios that deliver the deep asset class and equity sector expertise of our investment management teams,' said Jennifer Sinopoli, Executive Vice-President and Head of Distribution for CI GAM. 'Today's launches expand our selection of equity and balanced private pools, giving advisors enhanced choice and flexibility in building portfolios tailored to each client's requirements. Article content 'We're also adding three compelling mandates to our ETF lineup, demonstrating our commitment to building one of Canada's most comprehensive selections of investment solutions,' Ms. Sinopoli said. Article content CI GAM is one of Canada's largest ETF providers with approximately $23 billion in ETF assets under management (as at July 31, 2025) and a lineup of 87 ETF strategies. Article content The private pools launched today are all managed by the CI GAM investment team and have the following investment objectives: Article content CI Canadian Income & Growth Private Pool – Article content The pool's investment objective is to generate income and long-term capital growth by investing, directly or indirectly, in a diversified portfolio of securities composed mainly of equity, equity-related and fixed-income securities of Canadian issuers. The pool may also invest in foreign securities. Article content CI Global Dividend Private Pool – Article content The pool's investment objective is to provide investors with a combination of income and capital appreciation by investing primarily in a portfolio of dividend-paying global equity securities. Article content CI Select Canadian Equity Private Pool – Article content The pool's investment objective is to provide long-term capital growth by investing primarily in common shares, convertible securities and preferred shares of Canadian companies that pay regular income. Article content CI U.S. Monthly Income Private Pool – Article content The pool's investment objective is to generate income and long-term capital growth by investing primarily in a combination of equity and fixed-income securities located in the U.S. Article content CI U.S. Small/Mid Cap Equity Private Pool – Article content The pool's objective is to provide long-term capital growth by investing primarily in equity or equity-related securities of small and medium-capitalization companies located in the U.S. Article content CI U.S. Stock Selection Private Pool – Article content The pool's investment objective is to provide long-term capital growth by investing primarily in large-cap U.S. equity and equity-related securities. Article content About CI Global Asset Management Article content CI Global Asset Management ('CI GAM') is one of Canada's largest investment management companies. It offers a wide range of investment products and services and is on the web at CI GAM is a subsidiary of CI Financial Corp. (TSX: CIX), an integrated global asset and wealth management company with approximately $550.9 billion in assets as at June 30, 2025. Article content Commissions, trailing commissions, management fees and expenses may be associated with an investment in mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Please read the simplified prospectus before investing. Important information about mutual funds and ETFs is contained in their respective prospectus. Mutual funds and ETFs are not guaranteed; their values change frequently, and past performance may not be repeated. You will usually pay brokerage fees to your dealer if you purchase or sell units of an ETF on recognized Canadian exchanges. If the units are purchased or sold on these Canadian exchanges, investors may pay more than the current net asset value when buying units of the ETF and may receive less than the current net asset value when selling them. Article content This communication is intended for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to purchase mutual funds managed by CI Global Asset Management and is not, and should not be construed as, investment, tax, legal or accounting advice, and should not be relied upon in that regard. Every effort has been made to ensure that the material contained in this document is accurate at the time of publication. Individuals should seek the advice of professionals, as appropriate, regarding any particular investment. Investors should consult their professional advisors prior to implementing any changes to their investment strategies. These investments may not be suitable to the circumstances of an investor. 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