Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Avaya's roadmap for unified software management At a user conference in Boston executives said the company's future leans heavily on next-generation communications and business collaboration software
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Avaya expands cloud offerings Collaboration platforms to be offered under the AvayaLive name either direct from the company or through service providers 
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Avaya’s new network chief has ‘lofty goals’ Marc Randall wants the company to be in third place in network equipment sales by 2014. Read why industry analysts say its an uphill fight
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Avaya has Flare for Apple's iPad Want to run Avaya's Flare interface on an iPad? There's now an app for that. However, unlike its big brother, Flare Communicator can't do video conferencing
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Nortel executives lied about financials, says prosecutor In a pre-trial outline of his case, the prosecution reduces the charges against three officials, but says “the books were cooked” as part of a bonus scheme 
Tuesday, January 03, 2012
What IT suppliers predict for 2012 A roundup of predictions from smart phones to social media that IT companies are making for the new year
Monday, November 21, 2011
Avaya strengthens ERS 4000 campus switch line Company fills in gaps in its Ethernet switch line by adding Power over Ethernet+, SFP+, which will help it bid on contracts. Stackable bandwidth is also boosted
Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Avaya Flare for iPad, Windows coming in 2012 At a customer show in Toronto, the company unveils some product plans for 2012 including new capabilities for its Contact Center suite and the promised new Flare platforms 
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Lync not enterprise-ready, claims rival A former Microsoft partner and expert on its telephony suite has turned against the newest version of the application since joining Avaya
Monday, September 19, 2011
Vendors offer tips to ensure successful UC projects Plan before buying technology, cultivate the luddites on your staff and once unified communications is entrenched make sure your staff isn't quietly working in India
Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Tests shows SPB ready, say network equipment makers Ottawa simulation shows Shortest Path Bridging works between multiple vendors, say participants. An industry analyst explains why it's important to enterprises and carriers
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Avaya helps address social-media blowback Software and services automate the notification of appropriate parties when unflattering information scraped from social media sites indicates a company is getting knocked around
Monday, July 04, 2011
RIM in winning group for Nortel patents A consortium including the BlackBerry maker keeps Google from buying any wireless patents as the last auction for Nortel assets finishes
Monday, May 16, 2011
Cisco prices sure to drop, say analysts With the company under financial pressure to improve results, it's time to play Let's Make a Deal. One analyst says you mustn't make a purchase now without getting several competitive bids first
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Interop 2011: Loud, cloud and crowds One of the biggest draws at this year's annual networking show couldn't be bought: A demo of the OpenFlow network control technology manufacturers are increasingly interested in. Elsewhere there were lots of new product announcements
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Force10 taking data centres into zettabyte era ZettaScale line of switches are designed to offer users a choice between a centralized and a distributed core network.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Alcatel-Lucent enterprise business for sale: report Reuters says the network equipment manufacturer is meeting with potential buyers this week in San Francisco. Formed in 2006 with the merger of Alcatel and Lucent, it's been struggling ever since
Thursday, March 24, 2011
VANOC’s John Furlong on the IT road to the Olympics The president of the Vancouver Organizing Committee recounts the technology journey leading up to the Winter Games and how the absence of a “Get Out Of Jail” card set expectations. Also, a Cisco exec explains how the network is turning into “the platform”
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Juniper vows to 'revolutionize' data centre networks Company says its QFabric devices will flatten data centre networks, deliver low latency, scalability, power and savings. However, one industry analyst cautions that a full solution won’t be available until later this year
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Avaya extends virtual network to campus switches The company's VENA architecture is now available for use outside data centres to help the deployment of cloud-based services across a single backbone
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Avaya to push virtual conferencing via cloud Quietly marketed until now, the company's web.alive platform will be offered in a quick to use US$49 a month version to get the interest of enterprises
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Avaya reassures Nortel customers at conference When competitors tried to tempt Nortel users to their platforms, an Avaya official fought back. Read what one telecom manager came away with from the debate
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Videoconferencing to hit critical mass on mobile Tablets with video calling capability from the likes of Research in Motion, Cisco and Avaya are what will shoot the videoconferencing market to the next level, said ABI Research. The mobile platform issues that could impede this growth
Wednesday, January 05, 2011
Don't break your budget shifting to IP telephony Two public sector organizations show how aging PBXs can be upgraded to unified communications without ripping and replacing equipment at high cost
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Avaya upgrades ACE software Improvements include a toolkit that enables customers to sequence individual applications to make more complex, custom applications.