Avaya, an enterprise communications systems provider, has announced an addition to its Avaya Aura brand: a Virtualized Unified Communications Solution. The solution enables versions of its top business services to be deployed on a single server for mid-sized business customers.
Unmodified versions of Avaya Communication Manager, Voice Messaging, SIP Enablement Services, Application Enablement Services, Utility Services and Media Services can be applied on a single server thus creating up to 75 percent reduction in a company's hardware footprint according to the company's release. The offering apparently also simplifies the installation of the system allowing for a remote installation in 1-2 hours.
According to No Jitter, the new UC solution will give Avaya a competitive advantage over similar offerings from Cisco and Microsoft because it requires less hardware. While these competitors require servers for each of their commonly used services, Avaya has been able to combine them all on to one server. The service will be available in November.
For more:
- read this explanation from No Jitter [1]
- read the release here [2]
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Links:
[1] http://www.nojitter.com/blog/archives/2009/10/new_avaya_aura.html
[2] http://www.fiercewireless.com/press-releases/avaya-introduces-virtualized-unified-communications-solution
[3] http://www.fiercevoip.com/story/embargo-until-march-2-7-am-et-avaya-announces-mobile-uc-partnership-divitas-networks-adds-devi
[4] http://www.fiercevoip.com/story/avaya-cementing-fmc-market-leadership/2009-09-10
[5] http://www.fiercevoip.com/story/spotlight-interop-shows-interest-in-voip-virtualization-wan/2008-05-01