Technology Insights

Integrating UC – Key Lessons

May 9, 2011

Combat Networks & CBC Talk About UC @ CTCA Combat took part in two events last week. Avaya Experience – Montreal, and the Canadian Telecommunications Consultants Association event taking place in Ottawa. Both events were very successful.  Combat Networks’ Greg Curry was even featured in an IT World Canada article talking about our UC integration.

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Avaya Self Funded Roadmap

Avaya’ Self Funded Roadmap

July 21, 2010

Avaya has been very clear about its view of how enterprise telecommunications networks will evolve and migrate to over time. We at Combat Networks happen to agree with their vision and the strategy. Especially for Nortel installed base customers evaluating where to go from here. All things considered (heavily weighted on financial reasons), it makes a lot of sense to migrate to an Avaya Aura architecture in order to preserve the investment in Nortel infrastructure while taking advantage of new features and benefits that Unified Communications can deliver to an enterprise.

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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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Avaya 5600 ERS Overview

June 21, 2010

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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Avaya 5000 Series Market Analysis

June 16, 2010

I always said that Nortel had great products but terrible marketing.
Now that Avaya owns the data portfolio, there is some strong marketing and investment taking place within that portfolio.

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Avaya VPN UNIStim

June 14, 2010

Release allows for the 1100 series sets (other models also supported) to create a tunnel back to a Contivity fronted CS1K, providing remote users with full featured enterprise voice capability.

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Avaya Aura Integration – Part 1

May 26, 2010

Implementing Aura Part 1 There has been a lot of news in the UC/SIP market around Avaya Aura since their (Avaya’s) official launch early last year. With the launch of Aura/SM, then shortly there after, Avaya’s purchase of Nortel Enterprise division, Avaya key messages of “Fit for Purpose” and “Wrap & Embrace” began to take [...]

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f5 Whiteboard – Optimizing Backups

May 18, 2010

Renny Shen from F5 Networks explains how you can reduce backup costs and backup and recovery times by 80% or more.

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Secure your Web Applications with f5 Big-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)

May 4, 2010

Watch how easy it is to secure your Web Applications with the BIG-IP Access Policy Manager for BIG-IP LTM.

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