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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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Nortel Products EOL – Nortel End of Life

by Adam DaCosta

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

by Adam DaCosta

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

by dgorham

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

by Combat Joe

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

by Adam DaCosta

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

by Combat Joe

[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

by Combat Joe

[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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Nortel – Avaya – Resilient Multicast Routing Using Split-Multilink Trunking for the ERS 8600

by Combat Joe

[singlepic id=32 w=320 h=240 float=left]Description: This Technical Configuration Guide (TCG) describes the supported network designs and configurations for Protocol Independent Multicast Sparse Mode (PIM-SM) over Nortel’s Split Multi-Link Trunking for the Ethernet Routing Switch 8600. All configuration examples are based on the minimum software and hardware level as shown below. Switch Software Level ERS8600 4.1. [...]

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Understanding Nortel’s Ethernet Switching’s Lifetime Warranty

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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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