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Telecom Reseller: Extra Report on Avaya
2nd Quarter 2016

500+ Companies Avaya Receives 5-Star Rating in
core were very impressed by the speed and CRN’s 2016 Partner Program Guide
eficiency of the installation, and the fact for the Seventh Consecutive Year
Switch to Avaya that the new Avaya equipment performed
lawlessly right from the start.” —Michael continued from page 3...
LaChapelle, Senior Manager – Network
Fabric Networking
Computing Technology, Long Island Rail
Road
provides incentives in ve speci c areas of market
“High-availability was a crucial parameter opportunity: Midmarket, Contact Center, Fabric
for us to take care of multiple airport Networking, Modernize the Customer Base and
operations as the network is the backbone Cloud.
Avaya, a global leader of business credit card payment systems, a host of new
for all airport operations. The network has Consolidation of numerous programs and communications software, systems and applications and services.
certainly delivered against that goal.” -- making them more potent, so partners spend less services, announced that more than 500 To increase car production for one of the
Francis Rajan, VP of ICT, BIAL
time researching and applying for incentives.
digital enterprises and organizations around world’s oldest car manufacturers, Avaya
“IP multicast is one of the reasons why “Solution providers have more choices than ever the world have deployed Avaya Fabric delivered a fully virtualized architecture
we went with Avaya, because it’s so easy to before when it comes to selecting vendor partners. Networking technology. From the world’s that increases stability, security and makes
implement and use. We run on one, strong, Identifying the right vendor with the right tallest building to the busiest commuter it easier to deploy new manufacturing
lexible network for all the digital assets we technologies and the right channel approach can railroad in North America, the world is services.
have at the Bell Centre. Regardless of the mean the di erence between successful adoption increasingly switching to Avaya networking For numerous airport operations and
operation, the Avaya network can handle it. I of a new technology or business model and an for smart commerce, industry, education and companies including management ofices,
don’t see any limitations.”
awkward, unnecessarily di cult integration,” said government.
concessionaires, cargo and catering, plus
--Pierre-Eric Belzile, Vice President, Robert Faletra, CEO, e Channel Company. Avaya Fabric Connect virtualizes
retail food and consumer shops Avaya
Information and Communication Technology “Our annual Partner Program Guide and 5-Star the infrastructure of the enterprise by provides multi-tenant capabilities that uses
at the Canadiens Hockey Club
ratings recognize the best channel programs simplifying network design, deployment and the same physical infrastructure yet securely
“Our network has to be 99.99% reliable, available in the market today and serve as a management to create a single ‘network segments trafic.
yet at the same time be lexible enough
valuable resource for solution providers looking fabric.’ Companies are switching to Avaya A school system in one of the largest
to respond quickly to new data center
for the right t.”
Fabric Networking because of its stunningly counties in the U.S with more than 115,000
and production-related requirements. We “A successful channel program recognizes the simple coniguration and management, users in 175 different locations and 300,000
managed to achieve the impossible thanks to mutual dependencies and respects the value and lightning fast time to service and failover, BYOD devices created a Smart Campus with
Avaya.” --Albert Knoll, Network Operations expertise that both partners and vendors bring to and rock solid reliability and resiliency.
Avaya.
Manager, Fujitsu Technology Solutions.
the table, said Steve Biondi, global channel chief, With a lengthy task list and unconditional A new category of Enterprise Service
“One of the biggest beneits is that the Avaya. “Honest dialogue and collaboration is requirements, Avaya checks off all the boxes Platforms, where enterprises are acting like
network needs very little maintenance– we absolutely essential, as channel partners represent for customers. Just a few examples include:
service providers providing more secure
just implement it and forget about it. This is our eyes and ears in the market. At the end of the Saving time and money for Australia’s data services and a lightning fast delivery
a big bonus for my small team, which doesn’t day, a true partnership between Avaya and our oldest bank and largest banking groups by model is emerging with Avaya at the lead.
have time to be constantly tinkering with
channel is the only path to long-term growth and updating migrating and consolidating their Quotes
the network.” --Andy Bischoff, Manager, pro tability for both of us.”
data center and network operations in less “On the day of the cutover, we were able
Network Services, York Region District e 2016 Partner Program Guide was featured than six weeks.
to take the new network live in just two
School Board. ■
in the February issue of CRN and online at www. The busiest commuter railroad in the U.S. hours. The executives who were present
More at www.avaya.com
CRN.com/ppg2016. ■
moved to Avaya to run its video applications,
for the deployment of our new network
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