Posts Tagged ‘Avaya / Nortel’
The IT folks at my workplace migrated another batch of users over to Communications Server, in favour of “Enterprise Voice”. These 60 Nortel TDM handsets were previously enabled for “Remote Call Control”, which have now been replaced with “Oak” devices – £100 cheaper than the previous TDM model and a lot easier to use/manage! Check out our handset […]
Today I attended an Avaya Unified Communications “Special Interest Group” or (SIG), this briefing is aimed at targeting specific topics for the more strategic, focussed and tech savvy audience. It was held at the ex-Nortel UK headquarters in Maidenhead, whilst most buildings were still branded Nortel, I was guided to the only Avaya signposted building […]
Previously I mentioned that during the “integrated roadmap” announcement there was continued collaboration with Microsoft technologies, I had mistaken this to mean that the existing agreement (entered back in July 2006 and expected to terminate this July) would continue and possibly renew. However only 2 days since the AvayaN strategy was announced the ICA site […]
For those of you that didn’t attend Avaya’s webinar (or just want some key take-aways) read on… Firstly I thought it might be good to remind you why the joining of these two telecommunications giants is a big thing for the UC community. 1. Nortel and Avaya have a combined Unified Communications revenue share of 32%, bigger than any […]
Just before the Christmas break I received an e-mail from Nortel, the subject was “Avaya has completed its purchase of Nortel Enterprise Soulution” – before I started to digest the content of this message, I hoped that the “Avaya” future might bring spell checking as “Soulution” is a Switzerland based high-end audio system manufacturer! (sorry couldn’t resist) […]
Today Nortel sold off its enterprise business arm to Avaya for $900m, this is great news for companies with significant investments in Nortel technology (like mine!). see below for more details: Will sell the assets of the Enterprise Solutions Business, and shares of Nortel Government Solutions and DiamondWare to Avaya Avaya to Pay US$900 Million […]
