The Aura Alliance: Avaya’s Global Solutions Delivery Partner

Combat Networks has long been synonymous with Nortel and Avaya solutions in Canada and when a global coalition of Avaya’s top partners it was only natural that Combat Networks became the Canadian representative for the Aura Alliance.

What is the Aura Alliance?

The Aura Alliance is a group of highly accredited Avaya Business partners working together as a single organization to provide global coverage to support multinational deployments of Avaya communications technologies.

What can the Aura Alliance offer to Multinational Customers?

The Aura Alliance provides global support for your Avaya communications systems requirements, whether an international roll out of Avaya or maintenance of existing Avaya systems within your global organization.
Aura Alliance members have joined together to form an organization with many years of experience, a wealth of knowledge and an incredibly strong skill set in designing, implementing and maintaining single networked, centrally managed, global IP Telephony communications infrastructures.
We specialize in designing, implementing and maintaining global infrastructures based on the Avaya Aura Communication Manager IP Telephony solution and its many applications including:

  • Unified Communications
  • Presence Management
  • Contact & Call Centres
  • Remote & Home working solutions
  • Conferencing (voice, video and web) facilities

Where does Combat Networks fit in to the Aura Alliance?

The Aura Alliance is made up of Avaya accredited business partners from across the globe who work together as a single provider to ensure that global customers receive a consistently high level of customer service.
All members are accredited Avaya Business Partners; Avaya regulates each business to ensure the business partner community can deliver its products and services to a high standard. Each business partner must hold; Avaya Certifications for sales, network design and engineering staff; product authorisations; service quality certifications and be an accredited partner.

Combat Networks is the designated Aura Alliance Partner in Canada. In addition to providing services to our Canadian based customers, Combat Networks can now quarterback multinational and global deployments for our customers with offices across the globe. Combat Networks will also be the Canadian services arm of the Aura Alliance, providing products and services to multinational organizations with branch offices in Canada.

More information can be found on the Aura Alliance website at www.auraalliance.com or contact Combat Networks at sales@combatnetworks.com

F5 & VMware Toronto Event

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by Adam DaCosta on 2010/07/23

Join Combat & f5 In Toronto

Learn how to virtualize your mission-critical applications

Breakfast is on us (f5) and by attending you could win a Mini Netbook!

Join us for a discussion on How to virtualize your mission-critical applications in your virtual network infrastructure. You’ll learn how to optimize performance, reduce costs, and mitigate the risks of virtualizing mission-critical applications such as Exchange, SharePoint, SAP, and Oracle.

Learn best practices on how to:

  • Improve VM host density by 60%
  • Integrate F5 and vSphere for complete VM automated provisioning
  • Maximize View with a secure access, single sign-on, high performance PCoIP
  • Enable long distance VMotion without downtime or user disruption
  • Deliver virtualized applications globally across multiple data centers

Agenda Overview

8:30 a.m. Attendee check-in & continental breakfast
8:45 a.m. Virtualization challenges & how F5 can help
9:00 a.m. How to virtualize mission-critical applications
10:00 a.m. Demo of F5 long distance VMotion

Register Now

Advanced registration is required and seating is limited.

Questions?
Contact Jeanette Geary j.geary@f5.com.

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The Combat Networks CRM – Your Ticket to Great Service

by Troy Johnson

his is a very important site for Combat employees and Clients. It provides a direct portal into Combat support; where you can get the most reliable and timely response to your questions, trouble tickets and MAC requests. Using the portal, or calling the 1-877-9-Combat (1 877 926 6228) number and creating a ticket ensures that your issue is tracked to resolution.

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Avaya Self Funded Roadmap

Avaya’ Self Funded Roadmap

by Combat Joe

Avaya has been very clear about its view of how enterprise telecommunications networks will evolve and migrate to over time. We at Combat Networks happen to agree with their vision and the strategy. Especially for Nortel installed base customers evaluating where to go from here. All things considered (heavily weighted on financial reasons), it makes a lot of sense to migrate to an Avaya Aura architecture in order to preserve the investment in Nortel infrastructure while taking advantage of new features and benefits that Unified Communications can deliver to an enterprise.

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Will Telco’s Exit the Reseller Buisiness?

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They’ve had a great run. Even with Deregulation, the Telco’s still managed to hang on to a large portion of the market that supplied and maintained PBXs to private and public sector customers. Even as margins in this market on the supply of the hardware, software and licenses continually declined, the extremely generous margins afforded by long term maintenance contracts and the control of the equipment that lucrative WAN and PSTN services were attached to, the Telco’s saw a benefit to being a Reseller of the equipment.

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IPAD VPN Connectivity

by Adam DaCosta

You know IPADs are making their way into the corporate environment when (multiple) customers start asking you how to configure the IPAD for VPN connectivity. Not that we support IPAD issues, but we do support and design VPN concentrators, so to help our here are some details.

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Avaya Data Marketing – WSJ

by Adam DaCosta

Avaya was doing some marketing in the WSJ this week. The advertisement stands out a little (well quite a bit actually) and does an even better job at calling out some of their competition (Cisco).

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Avaya Aura Integration – Part 2

by admin

Moving forward with the installation process it important to identify our existing infrastructure and give you a sense of where we stand today – features, functions, and services that we currently use and depend upon here at Combat. This information will provide you fundamental understanding of “Today @ Combat”

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Understanding Avaya PASS Support

by admin

If you haven’t heard the term “PASS” during the last 12 months as a user of Nortel/Avaya voice and data hardware you will become familiar with the term going forward. PASS stands for Partner Assurance Support Services. The point of program is fairly straightforward even if there will be some initial confusion about this program. Here’s the background for those that are interested:

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Avaya ERS & VMWare ESX Server

by Adam DaCosta

Avaya provides a document for best practices Resilient Data Center Server Edge Solutions for VMware ESX Server Technical configuration Guide and you can find it located further down in this post. This article provide a quick overview of the document. For further info and specific configuration details and commands, please download the Technical Document

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