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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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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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Avaya & Cisco Compatibility Guide

by Adam DaCosta

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

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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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 ERS 8600 Software 7.0 Draft Release Notes

by Adam DaCosta

Avaya ERS 8600 Software 7.0 Draft Release Notes.

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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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