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Migrating To Your “Next Generation” Firewall/VPN/Branch Office Solution.

November 24, 2011

The Avaya VPN Router (formerly Nortel Contivity) was a great product. And still is for many environments. But is it meeting the demands and expectations of your organization’s remote users? Today’s remote users are using a multitude of different platforms and operating systems such as Windows XP, Vista, and 7. Not to mention Apple platforms [...]

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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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Norstar – End of Life – What you need to know

May 20, 2010

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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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 Resilient Terabit Cluster – Documentation

March 4, 2010

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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Nortel – Avaya – Large Campus Technical Solution Guide

February 22, 2010

[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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Nortel – Avaya – Medium Campus Technical Solution Guide

February 22, 2010

[singlepic id=33 w=250 h=150 float=left]This Technical Solution Guide defines the recommended designs for a Medium Converged Campus infrastructure. The document provides an overview of the best design practices to implement a network capable of supporting converged applications and services. The audience for this Technical Solution Guide is intended to be Nortel Sales teams, Partner Sales [...]

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Nortel – Avaya – Resilient Multicast Routing Using Split-Multilink Trunking for the ERS 8600

February 22, 2010

[singlepic id=32 w=320 h=240 float=left]Description: This Technical Configuration Guide (TCG) describes the supported network designs and configurations for Protocol Independent Multicast Sparse Mode (PIM-SM) over Nortel’s Split Multi-Link Trunking for the Ethernet Routing Switch 8600. All configuration examples are based on the minimum software and hardware level as shown below. Switch Software Level ERS8600 4.1. [...]

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Understanding Nortel’s Ethernet Switching’s Lifetime Warranty

February 12, 2010
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Avaya Life Time Warranty Support for Avaya (xNortel) Ethernet Switches has continued to be a VERY popular question for customers: What does lifetime Warranty cover? What are the support agreements? What are the shipping arrangements? We try to answer a few of these questions in the article below. Lifetime Hardware Warranty Nortel now includes Industry-leading [...]

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Nortel – Avaya BCM Update: New Release 2nd Half of 2010

February 9, 2010

BCM Roadmap Update: Good news — We can confirm that there will be another release of Business Communication Manager (BCM) from its new owner Avaya. Avaya has stated that a new release of BCM will be made available during the second half of calendar 2010. While the market and customers have been speculating and recieving updates from [...]

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