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Avaya Goes After Cisco With New Ethernet Switches

December 7, 2011

Being a Combat customer, you will know our expertise, and level of commitment to Avaya and the Avaya data portfolio. While Combat has, for a long time, being telling the story of Avaya’s commitment to, determination of success, and the marketing leading benefits of, Avaya’s ERS portfolio. It was only until recently – within the [...]

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Data: Creating VLANs on an Avaya 5520 ERS

January 27, 2011

How to Create VLANS on an Avaya 5500 Great post from our friend Michael McNamara over on his blog http://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com/ I’ve had a number of discussions recently with people asking how to configure VLANs and IP routing on the stackable Avaya Ethernet Routing Switches. I thought I would take a step back and document some [...]

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ERS 5×00 & 4500 – Change in RADIUS Reachability check

December 15, 2010
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Avaya ERS 5×00 & 4500 Radius Code Update ERS 5×00 and ERS 4500 maintenance releases have introduced a change in the mechanism to check for reach-ability of the configured RADIUS servers from ICMP to a dummy RADIUS check (user-name Nortel), rather than use of ICMP, (as some customers have raised issues that ICMP could not propagate [...]

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Avaya Data Marketing – WSJ

July 12, 2010

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 ERS & VMWare ESX Server

June 30, 2010

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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Avaya & Cisco Compatibility Guide

June 22, 2010

Great post from my friend Michael McNamara’s blog at http://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com. A nice guide provided by Avaya:

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Avaya 5600 ERS Overview

June 21, 2010

5600 series (ERS 5600) currently includes five different models. Two high-performance, ultra-density 96-port 10/100/1000 models — one with Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) support on all ports — dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet XFP uplinks,

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Avaya 5000 Series Market Analysis

June 16, 2010

I always said that Nortel had great products but terrible marketing.
Now that Avaya owns the data portfolio, there is some strong marketing and investment taking place within that portfolio.

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Understanding Nortel’s Ethernet Switching’s Lifetime Warranty

February 12, 2010
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Avaya Life Time Warranty Support for Avaya (xNortel) Ethernet Switches has continued to be a VERY popular question for customers: What does lifetime Warranty cover? What are the support agreements? What are the shipping arrangements? We try to answer a few of these questions in the article below. Lifetime Hardware Warranty Nortel now includes Industry-leading [...]

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