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Avaya Delivers the Future of UC With Avaya Equinox: Simple, Contextual, User De ned
businesses worldwide, delivered by a company with the vision, focus and expertise to de ne the future of UC.”
Gary E. Barnett, SVP and GM, Avaya Engagement Solutions
“As North America’s rst fully digital hospital, Humber River Hospital continually seeks
to enhance patient care and provide positive outcomes. Enabling physicians, nurses and caregivers with real-time secure messaging and communication is one way we can move the needle in that direction. We’re excited to be live on the beta of Avaya Equinox as it seamlessly integrates with our tailored work ows, allowing us to revolutionize and transform healthcare.”
Kevin Fernandes, Chief Technology O cer, Humber River Hospital
“With Avaya Breeze, it’s easy to embed and orchestrate communication ows within Arrow’s Internet of ings so ware platform, Arrow Connect.
“Avaya Aura and Avaya Equinox enable us to create solutions that connect people together with context from IoT applications and drive higher business performance across a number of industries such as healthcare, manufacturing, Smart Cities and retail.”
Dr. Je Reed, Chief Technology O cer, Arrow Electronics Systems Integration
“ e continuing dislocation of the workplace demands solutions that are inherently mobile, secure and accessible from virtually any device. Avaya Equinox delivers on this and more with
a total communications solution that can be embedded in browsers and business applications. e Avaya Breeze Client SDK is not your everyday API – you have all the tools you need in a single solution that can be customized by vertical industry and workgroup needs, just what UC was intended to be.”
Rich Costello, Senior Research Analyst for Uni ed Communications and Collaboration program, IDC
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Enables UC Within the Applications and Browsers on the Devices People Use Every Day SANTA CLARA, CA - Avaya has announced
a new platform for business communications that ful lls the long-sought promise of uni ed communications. Avaya Equinox delivers streamlined, mobile- rst communications within the applications and browsers employees “live
in” for their work. Customizable through the Avaya BreezeTM Client SDK by vertical industry or worker requirements, Avaya Equinox is supported on desktop or mobile devices, and available out-of-the box on the elegant, all-glass Avaya Vantage device.
By consolidating various applications and interfaces into one experience, Avaya Equinox liberates employees and IT departments
from disjointed communications that hinder productivity and increase stress. e multitude of real-time and non-real-time communications methods used by workers typically requires a disruptive two- to three-step process of leaving a business application to communicate.
Read the blog: 1-Click Collaboration – A Promise Ful lled
While the vision of UC was to merge methods and simplify access, vendors today still struggle to fully merge all the communication application infrastructure and cloud-based services into a single platform that o ers the simpli ed user experience of Avaya Equinox. Key elements of Avaya Equinox include:
l Mobile First Experience, Action Oriented Work ow for Immediate Response – Workers can quickly see all scheduled meetings, messaging updates, and communications history in one place and take immediate action with a single touch. Optimized to the device — mobile,
tablet, desktop, browser and Avaya Vantage — the experience maintains mobile simplicity while embracing the bene ts inherent in a wide range of devices.
l Skip the Download: Collaborate from
a Browser – Avaya Equinox enables robust collaboration from within HTML5 browsers with no downloads or plugins needed, thanks to WebRTC technology. is best- in- class browser experience with full collaboration capabilities eliminates migration challenges for organizations in the process of transitioning desktop business applications to the web and/or shi ing applications to the cloud.
l Drive Performance and Di erentiate
with Smart Digital Solutions – Embed Avaya Equinox communication and collaboration capabilities within business processes or context, or into any business application to create and integrate unique solutions for vertical needs
and competitive di erentiation. Extend and accelerate smart digital solution creation with the single solution-wide Avaya BreezeTM Client SDK, work ow automation and Avaya Snapp Store ecosystem. Avaya Vantage runs Equinox right out of the box, but is also in nitely customizable through the Client SDK.
l Simply Access True Enterprise Class
HD Video and Voice Anywhere, Anytime – Provides reliable, secure, high-quality HD voice and video for communication anywhere on
any device, with easy, remote access including VPN-less connectivity. One number reach for all devices accelerates enterprise work ows and deployments; workers even can simultaneously use multiple devices.
l Message with Continuity and Always-On E ectiveness – Persistent, multimedia messaging
for text, audio, video, images and les allows employees to access and send team messages in real time — or anytime. A conversation initiated on the desktop in the morning can be picked back up on the mobile device at lunchtime, for example. Workers can even message those who are o ine for more e cient team interaction. One click from the messaging function escalates the session to a call or conference.
l Reduce the Complexity and Expense
of Multiple ‘UC’ Solutions – Avaya Equinox provides a single platform that supports all the di erent modes of conferencing. High scale audio conferencing, extensive web collaboration, rich multi-vendor HD video, even event streaming to 100,000 users in an all-in-one so ware solution.
Users have one login and one easy solution to learn, and IT has one solution to support with one set of statistics, single provisioning, and a smaller footprint with higher e ciency and lower costs.
Avaya Equinox is generally available globally this calendar quarter, with the advance conferencing capability coming in the rst quarter of 2017. e platform is sold on a per- user, suite licensing basis with subscription or perpetual pricing models, along with a traditional concurrent user pricing option for conferencing.
Quotes
“ e vision for uni ed communications has always been a streamlined, user and IT-friendly experience that enables work to proceed without disruption. Integrating the wide variety of forms and methods of communication into a single ow has been an unmet challenge — until now. Avaya Equinox has conquered that challenge
for the good of end users, IT departments and
Avaya Unveils Cloud Networking Platform to Simplify and Accelerate Deployment and Management of Networks
dynamic and distributed and IT management must follow these trends to keep up. Traditional management methods are far
too slow to keep up with the speeds that digital organizations require. e daunting number of complicated tasks associated with managing wired and wireless networks is overwhelming network operations. A uni ed cloud management solution, like Avaya Cloud Networking Platform brings greater e ciency and speed to network management. Also, it o ers robust security, scalability and service resiliency providing the best of an enterprise- grade solution without the burden of on- premises management.”
Zeus Kerravala, Principal Analyst, ZK Research
“Our customers IT resources are stretched and increasingly they look to cloud managed solutions as a means to mitigate the strain. Avaya’s new Cloud Networking Platform enables them to improve their operational agility and e ciency by simplifying the tasks required for the ongoing management of their network.
“We are con dent that adding this competitive solution to our portfolio of o ers will be a value-added service to our customers as well as expand our addressable market.”
David Ra erty, managing partner, Integration Partners
1WLAN Market grew 10% Y/Y, and is projected to be over $5B in CY16 (Dell Oro, IDC), Cloud Wireless LAN is growing at twice the rate of Wireless LAN (Dell Oro) Cloud-Managed Wireless LAN set to Grow to $2.5 Billion by 2018
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Provides IT With a Secure, Scalable, Uni ed Cloud Management Solution for Wired and Wireless Networks
SANTA CLARA, CA - Avaya has announced a complete network lifecycle management solution for enterprise and mid- size businesses. e Avaya Cloud Networking Platform delivers a uni ed, powerful solution for deploying and managing wired and wireless networks with complete control and visibility anywhere, anytime.
According to industry analysts, cloud managed models are growing rapidly, with cloud-managed Wi-Fi is growing at twice the rate of Wi-Fi deployments1. In addition, businesses are increasingly seeking a uni ed solution that can manage both wireless and wired networks.
Avaya Cloud Networking provides IT professionals with centralized management, visibility, and control over their network without the complexity of controller appliances or overlay management so ware. Hardware such as switches and access points installed on a customer premises
are con gured and managed in the cloud. IT managers can easily add, change, or modify network services from an easy to use dashboard to meet rapidly evolving business needs.
e Avaya Cloud Networking Platform delivers a simpler solution that allows enterprise-grade wireless and wired networks to be deployed and administered with minimal resources:
l Zero-touch activation of new access points and switches along with automated so ware updates and simpli ed license management relieves IT of some of their biggest operational burdens. A fully- integrated Guest Portal and BYOD on- boarding capability further improves operations.
l Robust security ensures that customers concerns are adequately addressed about data privacy, regulatory needs and alignment with business policies. e multi-tenant platform provides data isolation among di erent
cloud tenants. All communications are fully encrypted, with user tra c remaining on the rewall protected LAN and cloud connectivity only required for out of band management functionality.
l Service availability is guaranteed with data center redundancy and data replication. Wireless APs act autonomously even when the cloud connection is lost. Tra c and security is processed directly at the network edge in each AP.
l Massive scalability to support thousands
of network devices ensures current and future needs can be accommodated. Multi-tenant support and the exibility of a SaaS solution allows for easy scaling to support subscription based pay as you grow model.
Avaya channel partners can o er the Avaya Cloud Networking Platform to customers, expanding their portfolio with cloud-managed services. Pricing for the cloud networking management service is on a subscription basis; hardware is priced separately.
e Avaya Cloud Networking Platform will be generally available globally with support for wireless in November 2016 and support for wired networks coming in a follow-on release.
Quotes
“As the demand for uni ed access solutions continues to grow, the burden of managing and securing networks has become nearly untenable — especially at a time when there’s pressure to reduce IT budgets and resources. e Avaya Cloud Networking Platform provides the much needed relief with a highly-secure, cost-e ective solution that ts any size business.”
Marc Randall, SVP and GM, Avaya Networking
“Businesses are becoming increasingly