Avaya News

On: 23 Dec 2009 For: IDG News Service The company, which expects to finalize the deal in January, will ask for court approvals for the bidding procedures, bid deadline and a tentative auction date.

Avaya, Inc., a US-based provider of communication systems, applications and services, has completed the acquisition of global enterprise solutions business of Nortel Networks Corporation.

Avaya Inc. plans to keep about 500 more employees than anticipated in the corporate-phone equipment unit bought from Nortel Networks Corp.

Moody's Investors Service on Monday lowered its corporate family rating on telephone and computer software company Avaya Inc., citing challenges the company faces in the wake of its purchase of Nortel Networks Corp.'s enterprise solutions unit.

Plantronics, Inc. today announced an expansion of its 40-year business and technology relationship with Avaya to deliver Unified Communications and Contact Center solutions that help companies improve business collaboration and reduce operating costs.

Avaya completed its acquisition of Nortel's global Enterprise Solutions business as well as the shares of Nortel Government Solutions Incorporated and DiamondWare.

Find out what kind of efficiency improvements the Seattle-based Group Health Cooperative has achieved with its new unified communication system, which relies heavily on IP phones Two years ago, patients calling Group Health Cooperative in Seattle for medical advice had zero chance of getting their questions answered on the first call.

Network technologies have come and gone, but the Ethernet switch has survived and continues to evolve, currently making its move to 40G and 100G .

The LAN switching market is now steered by four companies. The others are under a lot of pressure 2010 promises to be an interesting year in the enterprise LAN switching market.

United Arab Emirates: 3 hours, 26 minutes ago Avaya's Roger El Tawil takes on the role of Managing Director for the Gulf and Pakistan with immediate effect.

Avaya today announced that the Canadian Minister of Industry has approved the company's acquisition of Nortel Enterprise Solutions under the Investment Canada Act.

Avaya has come out with the one-X Agent contact center desktop application suite.It features a user interface that lets agents better manage multiple customer and expert interactions simultaneously.

Avaya Inc. has been ranked at the top of the latest Vendor Matrix released by ABI Research.

Buying Nortel's enterprise division may not give Avaya the lead in sales of business communications customers gear Even after it buys Nortel Networks' enterprise division , Avaya Inc.

If approved by courts and regulators, Ciena will offer jobs to about 1,400 Canadian Nortel employees.

An Avaya survey shows 38% of channel partners believe unified communications will offer opportunities in 2010.

The European Commission said on Thursday that it has approved the proposed acquisition by US business communications solutions provider Avaya Inc of the Enterprise Solutions business of Canadian telecoms equipment maker Nortel Networks.

Hewlett-Packard Co .'s $2.7 billion deal to buy 3Com Corp. this week has led to speculation about what other companies HP might look to buy as it beefs up its offerings in the data center market and some of those potential deals would have a direct impact on the Raleigh-Durham market.

Leading IP Communications provider, Smoothstone IP Communications, today announced that its SIP Trunking Service is compliant with key Internet protocol telephony solutions from Avaya, a leading global provider of business communications applications, systems and services.

Info-Techa s Jayanth Angl says Aura will help Avaya compete with Cisco Avaya Inc.