Avaya acquires Swedish vendor Konftel in an effort to expand the audio capabilities of its unified communications and collaboration solutions. – Avaya
is bulking up its audio collaboration capabilities with the $15 million
acquisition of Swedish company Konftel.
Through
the deal announced Jan. 4, Avaya gains Konftel’s portfolio of conferencing
solutions, in particular its OmniSound technology, which optimizes the audio in
conferencin…
Avaya IP Office 6.1 also expands upon its video conferencing capabilities, enabling video integration with SIP phones. – Business communications specialist Avaya introduced the latest version of IP
Office the company’s flagship communications solution for small and midsize
businesses. IP Office Release 6.1 delivers a host of business collaboration and
customer service enhancements designed to improve ease of use an…
The Virtual Enterprise Network Architecture (VENA) offering is designed to increase flexibility and scalability. – Communications systems specialist Avaya Data Solutions announced the launch of Virtual Enterprise Network Architecture (VENA), a data networking architecture designed to provide an end-to-end connection from the desktop to the data center. The new architecture features a ‘Virtual Services Fabric tha…
Avaya and Skype will integrate their communications offerings to enable easier collaboration between Avaya and Skype users via video, voice, IM and presence. – Two weeks after unveiling an aggressive initiative to push into the video
communications realm, Avaya is announcing a partnership with voice-over-IP
vendor Skype.
The two companies are integrating their IP-based communications
offerings, a move that will widen Avaya’s UC (unified communications)…
Avaya, an enterprise communication systems company, announced new real-time enterprise video communication tools and services this week, including the Avaya Flare Experience. Powered by an Intel Atom processor, the desktop video communications device allows users to launch video-conference calls, IM sessions or audio conferences in just seconds. Learn more about the Avaya Flare Experience.
As part of an aggressive video communications effort, Avaya is unveiling a tablet device that will compete with Cisco’s Cius tablet in the enterprise market. – Avaya is pushing its way into the video communications realm with a package
of products that includes an Android-based touch-screen tablet that will
compete with a similar one introduced in July by Cisco Systems.
At a Webcast event in New York
Sept. 15, Avaya officials unveiled the Avaya Flare E…
Avaya officials are following through on promises to aggressively integrate technologies acquired from Nortel to build up its enterprise communications offerings. The newest UC and contact center offerings are the latest examples. – When Avaya officials last year announced their intention to buy struggling Nortel Networks enterprise business for $915 million, both they and some analysts believed that would push the company toward the top of the enterprise telephony market.
And thats a market that includes the likes of technolo…
Avaya’s biggest announcement since the acquisition of Nortel sees the company releasing a slew of contact center and workforce optimization applications, all based on Avaya’s Aura architecture. – Avaya, a provider of business communications applications, systems
and services, announced a suite of new and enhanced product innovations
and services based on the Aura platform, as well as introducing its
next generation of contact center solutions designed to improve
customer service. A centr…
HP and Avaya have announced a three-year partnership that will have HP selling and servicing Avaya UC solutions, including Avayas Aura platform. The move is part of HPs strategy of competing with Cisco through a series of alliances with the likes of Microsoft and Alcatel-Lucent. – Hewlett-Packard is partnering with Avaya to help expand its unified
communications offerings in its ongoing competition with Cisco Systems.
HP officials on June 29 announced a three-year
alliance that will include HP selling and servicing Avaya UC and
Contact Center products as part of HPs UC am…
Tech Data said it would help Avaya Connect channel partners to capitalize on the demand for a wide range of networking and communications solutions. – Tech Data, a distributor of IT products, announced it finalized an
expanded distribution agreement with Avaya, a provider of enterprise
communications. In addition to supporting products and services added
to the Avaya portfolio following the acquisition of Nortel Enterprise
Solutions, Tech Data…
A number of vendors, including Microsoft, Polycom and HP, are creating the UCIF to leverage currently available standards to improve interoperability among unified communications products. Juniper and Logitech also are founders of the UCIF, which has about a dozen members. However, absent from the membership rolls are Cisco and Avaya. – Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and Polycom are among the founding members of an
alliance created to push interoperability between unified communications
offerings using currently established standards.
Other founding members of the UCIF (Unified Communications
Interoperability Forum) include Juniper…
Avaya and IBM are teaming up in an effort to improve communications capabilities in the health care space. Avaya is using its ACE software running on IBM’s Health Integration Framework to help health care IT application developers integrate communications into their software offerings.
– Avaya is working with IBM to help improve
communications capabilities in the health care field.
Avaya officials announced May 4 that the company is integrating
real-time, intelligent communications into health care applications through its
own ACE (Agile Communication Environment)
and IBM’s Hea…
At the Interop show in Las Vegas, Avaya is showing off its newest enterprise capabilities, the first since buying Nortels enterprise unit late last year. The offerings include a new switch and a wireless LAN solution, and are designed to help enterprises more easily handle UC and video applications.
– Avaya is rolling out a host of new enterprise-level networking tools
designed to help businesses more easily handle the growing number of
bandwidth-eating video and unified communications applications.
Avaya will show off the new offerings at the Interop 2010 show, which kicks off April 26 in Las…
Tandberg is unveiling the EX90, a telepresence offering that brings the immersive video collaboration technology to the desk. At the same time, Avaya is teaming up with LifeSize to add more video conferencing capabilities to its Aura platform.
– Tandberg and Avaya are making moves in the video collaboration space.
Tandberg on March 18 launched EX90, which extends the companys
telepresence capabilities to the desk.
The EX90 brings the functions available in Tandbergs
Telepresence offerings including video and audio quality, and InTouch t…
Avaya and Polycom are expanding their relationship to include the development and marketing of new voice and video unified communications solutions. The integrated offerings will be based on Avaya’s Aura UC platform and Polycom’s Open Collaboration Network strategy. The Avaya-Polycom partnership is the latest move in a quickly changing UC landscape as vendors attempt to take on major players like Cisco Systems.
– Avaya and Polycom are expanding their partnership to include integrated
video, voice and collaborations offerings, the latest move in a quickly
evolving unified communications market.
The two companies March 9 announced plans to jointly develop
and market a host of new, tightly integrated UC sol…
As more cost-conscious businesses look for affordable UC (unified communications) solutions, UC specialist Avaya upgrades its IP Office solution with video and instant messaging capabilities.
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Unified communications specialst Avaya announced the
release of IP Office 6.0, a UC solution offering collaboration tools such as
voice, instant messaging, presence and video. IP Office 6.0 also introduces
video collaboration through a new IP Office Video Softphone application. Th…
The new solutions allow health care companies to address key processes such as care coordination and patient flow, and helps ensure their efficient operation.
– Avaya introduced this week
a new set of unified communications designed to improve the quality of
patient care while increasing ROI and savings. The new solutions allow health care
companies to address key processes such as care coordination and patient flow,
and helps ensure their efficient op…
Avaya, which already is competing with Cisco and others in the enterprise communications space, now appears to want to take on Cisco in the larger enterprise networking market. Avaya announced that as part of its plans to integrate Nortel into its business, it will keep Nortels data products, including routers and switches. Avaya will have to invest a lot of money in the products if it plans to compete with Cisco, HP ProCurve and others, analysts said.
– There wasnt much surprising in Avayas road map for integrating Nortel Networks enterprise communications technologies with its own.
In a conference call with reporters and analysts Jan. 19 hours after
releasing some details about their plans, Avaya officials spoke of the
similar market outlook be…
Avaya is unveiling its plans for integrating products acquired from Nortels enterprise business. Avayas plan is aimed at eliminating overlap while protecting Nortel customers, who not only will want to avoid any rip-and-replace scenarios but also will be courted by Avaya competitors. Avaya also said it is keeping Nortels data products, including switches and routers.
– Avaya is rolling out an integrated product road map that officials say aims
to protect Nortel Networks customers and create a strong unified communications
portfolio.
In their
plans, unveiled Jan. 19, Avaya officials also said they intend to keep
Nortels data product lines, including switches, …
A month after closing a $915 million deal to buy bankrupt Nortel’s enterprise business unit, Avaya is preparing to unveil its integrated road map. The industry will see in which direction Avaya is moving, and Nortel customers will find out the future of their products.
– Avaya was one of the biggest winners in the 2009 fire sale that was Nortel
Networks.
The communications technology vendor bought Nortel’s enterprise business,
which includes Nortel’s UC (unified communications) products. Avaya on Dec. 18
completed the acquisition, which analysts at the time of t…
