Avaya Hardware & Software Updates

WLAN 2300 Rls 7.1 – Licensing changes

October 15, 2010
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WLAN 2300 Code Update Avaya/Nortel has recently released software 7.1 for the WLAN 2300 product line. With this new version comes interesting new features as well as several changes to the licensing scheme.

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BCM 6.0 Code Updates

September 27, 2010
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I have been getting quite a few questions and emails asking for more information on 6.o. So as a follow up to our pre-release 6.0 BCM announcement article a few weeks back Avaya BCM 6.0 Release. Here are some further details on the software update.

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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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Avaya, Flare & Forbes Magazine

September 22, 2010
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Forbes Magazine: A sexier Office Phone Avaya has been making quite a stir in the UC market lately with many of their product launches (i.e. Flare), and now most recently Avaya was profiled in this months issue of Forbes magazine.  (September 13th Forbes: A Sexier Office Phone) The 2 page article highlights Avaya ‘s UC [...]

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BCM Release 6.0

September 14, 2010
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Avaya is helping to promote and provide consistency in investements made in the BCM plaform. Release 6.0 includes several new features and repositions BCM as Avaya branded equipment. This makes it clear to customers that Avaya fully stands behind BCM – a reinforcement of the support policies we outlined in January.

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Avaya Leads Gartner Magic Quadrant

September 10, 2010
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Avaya has been positioned as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications and the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Corporate Telephony. Avaya appears as a leader in both reports, which positioned the company based on its ‘ability to execute’ and ‘completeness of vision’ for unified communications and corporate telephony.

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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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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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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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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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