Avaya/Nortel roadmap rolled out
By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 20 January 2010, 18:57 IST
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Bangalore: Its barely been a month since the $900 million acquisition of Nortel Enterprise business, but Avaya has already rolled out a new integrated roadmap for the two companies, reports Enterprise Networking Planet. Under the plan, Avaya will change the way Nortel customers are supported and provide an evolutionary path for growing the capabilities of the product suites of both the firms. The integrated Avaya/Nortel portfolio will include former Nortel data networking products as well as unified communications. "This portfolio brings together the best of Nortel with the best of Avaya to create significant business value for our customers," said Avaya Vice President, Alan Baratz. As part of the integrated platforms, Avaya will not be pushing a "rip and replace" agenda, according to Baratz. Instead, Avaya will be layering technology on top of existing assets in an effort to expand functionality and lower costs for users. One such overlay will come by way of the Avaya Aura platform, a SIP (define) based technology for unified communication business services. Avaya first launched Aura in 2009, and will be expanding it with Nortel technology in 2010. Baratz noted that with the Avaya Aura architecture users can plug into an existing PBX (define) infrastructure whether it's Avaya or Nortel and it will play nicely with the PBX environment, a compatibility that Avaya says will add value to users while cutting expenses. In addition to unified communications assets, Avaya has also acquired Nortel's enterprise data products, which include networking gear such as routers as switches. "We have also now brought in a very compelling data products portfolio into Avaya," Baratz said. "What's important about the data portfolio is that it is a fit-for-purpose data product portfolio oriented for providing data connectivity in support of real time communication environments."

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