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Migrating To Your “Next Generation” Firewall/VPN/Branch Office Solution.

November 24, 2011

The Avaya VPN Router (formerly Nortel Contivity) was a great product. And still is for many environments. But is it meeting the demands and expectations of your organization’s remote users? Today’s remote users are using a multitude of different platforms and operating systems such as Windows XP, Vista, and 7. Not to mention Apple platforms [...]

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BCM 5.0 End-of-Sale

September 24, 2010
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With the general availability of Business Communications Manager (BCM) 6.0, Network Configuration Manager 6.0 and Survivable Remote Gateway 50 6.0, Avaya is announcing the End of Sale the following release 5.0 products, effective December 6, 2010.

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Understanding Avaya PASS Support

July 6, 2010

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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Nortel Products EOL – Nortel End of Life

June 21, 2010

We receive a lot of questions from the community with regards to Nortel EOL products and updates. To help facilitate Avaya’s announcements and upcoming products here is a list of recent known product EOL releases to date provided through this blog:

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Norstar – End of Life – What you need to know

May 20, 2010

Event Summary May 5, 2010 – Avaya informed resellers of the end-of-sale for Nortel Norstar key systems. This includes the CICS, MICS, and 3X8 models, as well as the Norstar Messaging 100/150 software. Norstar end stations, terminal adapters and lines/trunk cards will remain generally available. Norstar systems will continue to be available for resellers to [...]

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Nortel Avaya – 5.1.1.1 Release notes – Upgrading pair of IST Core peer switches

March 8, 2010

Some things learned, READ the release notes, don’t assume anything even if you have done it a thousand times before! #1  (From 5.1.1.1 release notes) [singlepic id=32 w=320 h=240 mode=web20 float=left]When upgrading a pair of IST Core peer switches, special care must be taken due to SMLT architectural change. Unlike previous upgrades, when moving from [...]

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Avaya Resilient Terabit Cluster – Documentation

March 4, 2010

Documentation  on Nortel/Avaya Resilient Tera-bit Cluster, Focusing on providing ‘Always on Networking’ with Avaya’s line up of data portfolio.  Provides information on  Large, Small and Medium roll outs: http://www.nortel.com/solutions/conv/collateral/nn118082.pdf ./Joe

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Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 Software Release v5.1.2.0

February 24, 2010

Here is a great article on the 8600 software release by Michael McNamara – part of the Avaya Network Engineering community. via Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 Software Release v5.1.2.0. Great article Michael!

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Nortel – Avaya – Large Campus Technical Solution Guide

February 22, 2010

[singlepic id=14 w=250 h=150 float=left]This Technical Solution Guide defines the recommended designs for a Large Converged Campus infrastructure. The document provides an overview of the best design practices to implement a network capable of supporting converged applications and services. Large Campus Technical Solution Guide

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Nortel – Avaya – Medium Campus Technical Solution Guide

February 22, 2010

[singlepic id=33 w=250 h=150 float=left]This Technical Solution Guide defines the recommended designs for a Medium Converged Campus infrastructure. The document provides an overview of the best design practices to implement a network capable of supporting converged applications and services. The audience for this Technical Solution Guide is intended to be Nortel Sales teams, Partner Sales [...]

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