For Immediate Release: 2-May-2006
Deb Kline
Media Relations
908-953-6179
klined@avaya.com
Matt Booher
Investor Relations
908-953-7500
mbooher@avaya.com
INTEROP 2006, LAS VEGAS BOOTH 1548 – Avaya Inc.,
(NYSE:AV) a leading global provider of business communications
applications, systems and services, today increases the options
and ease with which mid-sized businesses can deploy intelligent
communications with the addition of three new solutions to the
company’s portfolio. Targeted for companies with between 100-500
employees, the solutions extend the features and functions of
Avaya’s IP Telephony-based communications applications portfolio
with the simplicity of use, implementation, administration and
maintenance that mid-sized businesses require.
The new solutions include:
- Avaya MultiVantage® Express – delivers the most robust set of communications applications in the industry in a single-server solution, including IP telephony, messaging, contact center and mobility applications
- Avaya On Demand - provides Avaya’s marketing-leading, intelligent communications as a service, including IP Telephony, contact center and messaging, in a low-risk, highly-flexible per-seat, per-month subscription model.
- Avaya S8400 Media Server – provides a migration path to the expanded power of Avaya Communication Manager IP telephony for existing DEFINITY® ProLogix, IP600 or S8100 server customers
All of the new solutions offer a lower total cost of
ownership while providing immediate benefits through
greater productivity. Mid-size businesses are better
positioned to manage risk and ensure business continuity
with built-in mobility, industry-leading reliability
and the flexibility to meet evolving or changing business
needs.
Key to the needs of the mid-sized business is the
simplicity with which the most robust set of
communications solutions in the industry can be
implemented and maintained. Avaya MultiVantage Express
– designed with substantial input from Avaya
BusinessPartners to meet the requirements of this
market – can be up and running in as little as two
hours, and a single license provides users with a full
set of communications applications that make employees
and processes more efficient and effective.
Avaya on Demand provides a turnkey, hosted solution
that is pre-configured and pre-tested prior to
implementation, and thus mitigating risk in migrating
to IP telephony and advanced applications. Most
Avaya on Demand core telephony equipment is housed
and managed in a secure, off-site Avaya data center
for hands-off, worry-free integration and management.
For financial flexibility, the solutions are offered
through a range of purchasing options - from purchase,
lease or rental, and in the case of Avaya on Demand,
a flexible ‘pay as you go, pay as you grow’ model.
"With the addition of these new mid-market solutions,
Avaya now has the most complete and comprehensive
portfolio of communications solutions in the industry,"
said Frank Dzubeck, president, Communications Network
Architects, Inc. "There's something for every channel
partner and packaged the way customers want to purchase,
manage and evolve their communications."
The solutions build on Avaya existing portfolio of offers
for mid-sized businesses, including:
- Avaya Contact Center Express – A multi-channel, high-volume contact center solution designed to provide intelligent routing and computer telephony integration for medium-sized contact centers.
- Avaya Communication Manager and Avaya S8300 Media Server – A cost-effective, “ala carte” pure IP telephony solution that enables mid-sized businesses to incrementally add applications as their business needs require.
Avaya solutions for Mid-Sized Businesses, along with
other advanced applications from Avaya, will be on
display at Avaya Booth #1548 at Interop
2006 in the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas,
May 2 – 4, 2006. For all information on Avaya's strategy,
product and services announcements at the show, look at
our virtual press kit at www.avaya.com/media.
About Avaya
Avaya Inc. designs, builds and manages communications
networks for more than 1 million businesses worldwide,
including over 90 percent of the FORTUNE 500®. Focused
on businesses large to small, Avaya is a world leader
in secure and reliable Internet Protocol (IP) Telephony
systems and communications software applications and
services.
Driving the convergence of voice and data communications
with business applications - and distinguished by comprehensive
worldwide services - Avaya helps customers leverage existing
and new networks to achieve superior business results.
For more information visit the Avaya website: www.avaya.com.au
About the FIFA World Cup and Avaya
As the Official Convergence Communication provider for the
FIFA World Cup 2006™, Avaya is providing a champion communications
network for the World’s largest sporting event. The converged
network – that combines voice and data on the same infrastructure–
will connect the 12 host stadiums, the international media centres
in Munich, Berlin and Dortmund and the FIFA headquarters in Berlin.
Players, coaches, volunteers and fans alike will benefit from the
Avaya network that will be instrumental in player and journalist
accreditation, the reporting of results, material tracking,
accommodation confirmations, transportation, and ticketing among
other critical functions. With an estimated 45,000 network
connections, 30,000 network devices and over 15 terabytes (or
15,000,000,000 bytes) of data, it is the largest converged
communication network ever built for a sporting event.
|
