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Avaya Hardware & Software Updates

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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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Understanding Avaya PASS Support

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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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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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Avaya 5600 ERS Overview

by Adam DaCosta

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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CS1000 4.0 & 4.5 MD July 1, 2010

by Adam DaCosta

As of July 1 2010, the software release of 4.0 and 4.5 for the Cs1K will not be available for any software expansion.

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Avaya 2050 IP Softphone (win) Release 4.0 GA

by Adam DaCosta

Avaya is pleased to announce the general availability of the 2050 IP Softphone 2050 Release 4.0 (Build 4.00.008) for
Windows PC. This release delivers several minor enhancements to the 2050 IP Softphone as well as a large number of fixes.

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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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Avaya Telephony Manager – End of Sales

by Adam DaCosta

Avaya has just published (May 8th) the pre-announcement of the End-of-New-Sales for Telephony Manager.  In fact, TM will not be available for new purchases starting Nov 1 2010.  Expansion to existing TM4.0 systems will still be possible. That is in line with Avaya (Nortel) strategy to transition to the Unified Communication Management (UCM) platform. Details can [...]

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Investment Protection for heritage Nortel (1100) IP Phones

by Adam DaCosta

Hardware Availability and Support Avaya will continue to offer the 2007 IP Deskphone, 1100-Series IP Deskphone, and 1200-Series IP Deskphone for sale. This commitment is contingent upon Avaya continuing to be able to source the components necessary to build these devices. Following any future announced end-of-sale date, standard Avaya policy of 3 years of Manufacturer [...]

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