Technology Insights

Avaya ERS 8600 Software 7.0 Draft Release Notes

May 3, 2010

Avaya ERS 8600 Software 7.0 Draft Release Notes.

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Joel Hackney (Avaya) Shares his thoughts

May 2, 2010

Joel Hackney – President Avaya Data Solutions, shares his thoughts of the last years events. Including the announcement of Avaya’s new Data line up http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/news/article.php/3879796/Avaya+Data+Chief:+Were+Not+Nortel+Anymore.htm

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IAUG – International Avaya Users Group

April 19, 2010

Culminating over 25 years of experience Avaya & Nortel users groups INAAU, Insight 100 and INNUA have come together to form IAUG – International Avaya Users Group. Announced today at Global Connect, IAUG promises to continue deliver Nortel & Avaya users a forum for technology, resources and training to Avaya end customers.  Creating one of [...]

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Avaya & Polycom

March 10, 2010

With Cisco buying Tandberg it was only a matter of time before the enterprise communications market responded – actually I was anticipating this earlier. Avaya and Polycom announced yesterday their joint partnership to jointly develop and market integrated video, voice and collaboration solutions. The joint solutions are to provide Polycom’s full product line (voice and [...]

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Nortel Avaya – 5.1.1.1 Release notes – Upgrading pair of IST Core peer switches

March 8, 2010

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 Healthcare & Working Together

March 2, 2010

[singlepic id=39 w=320 h=240 float=left]Avaya’s purchase of Nortel has contributed to Avaya’s portfolio in many verticals, and one of those verticals being the health care sector. Studies reflecting Nurse time/patient ratios as well as exponential cost increases within the hospital and the shortage of specialty nurses has provided  massive requirements for cost savings and work [...]

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AVAYA – SIP-O-Nomics Webinar

February 25, 2010

SIP-O-Nomics: Leveraging SIP for strategic value REGISTER NOW Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 2:00pm ET / 11:00am PT The benefits and promises of SIP offers companies the opportunity to reduce telecom spending, streamline and optimize architectures without the need for large-scale rip and replace of existing systems. We’ve also seen SIP hold the key to improve [...]

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Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 Software Release v5.1.2.0

February 24, 2010

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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Avaya Executive Event – Thanks!

February 22, 2010

[singlepic id=10 w=320 h=240 mode=web20 float=center]A very big thanks to everyone that had the opportunity to attend the Avaya Executive Event with Combat Networks at the Canadian War Museum last week Friday (February 19th)! The event was a huge success for our appreciated customers for both content and technology updates.  We have received fantastic feedback [...]

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F5 – Big IP Comparision

February 11, 2010

We have been receiving questions from our community on the differences of the F5 Big IP platform: Here is a table we put together of the capacity differences among some of the models. The 1500/3400 are the older technology platforms. Aside from pure performance, some of the smaller/older models will have limitations on how many [...]

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