{"id":3476,"date":"2013-12-24T15:15:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T07:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=3476"},"modified":"2013-12-24T15:15:36","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T07:15:36","slug":"avaya-expands-collaboration-solutions-midmarket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2013\/12\/24\/avaya-expands-collaboration-solutions-midmarket\/","title":{"rendered":"Avaya expands collaboration solutions for the midmarket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Avaya has unveiled a new software designed from the ground up to streamline the way midmarket companies collaborate and communicate. At the center of the Avaya strategy is Avaya IP Office 9.0, a single software platform for collaboration with highly flexible deployment options for companies up to 2,000 users that is capable of being deployed in as little as an hour.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Avaya.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2863\" alt=\"Avaya\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Avaya-300x105.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"105\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Avaya-300x105.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Avaya.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This is part of the $2.5 billion investment Avaya made over the past six years to transform from a telecommunications provider to a software and services led company focused on delivering collaboration and communications solutions that are open, mobile and centered on the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>With over 12 million users already installed worldwide, Avaya IP Office now provides midmarket companies with a cost-effective, powerful platform for growth that delivers nearly 30% lower total cost of ownership compared to other solutions . Through tightly woven integration, Avaya IP Office offers a seamless collaboration experience across voice, video, and mobility, providing end users with secure, easy access from their choice of devices.<\/p>\n<p>Avaya IP Office 9.0 now offers: cost-effective scales to 2,000 users (previously 1,000 users) at up to 32 locations; virtualized software running VMware vSphere 4.x or 5.x software; IP Office Web Manager for Server Edition, which provides a consolidated management view of a multi-site IP Office solution through a one-time log-in to a single URL; and support for the enterprise branch.<\/p>\n<p>Avaya\u2019s collaboration solutions for midmarket companies make up one of the most comprehensive portfolios in the market for this segment. Avaya IP Office can be augmented with the following: the Avaya Video Collaboration Solution for IP Office; Avaya Ethernet switches with unique automated provisioning capabilities; and Avaya Session Border Controller for comprehensive security for unified communications that also eliminate the need for mobile or remote workers to deal with VPN connections.<\/p>\n<p>An Avaya IP Office midmarket collaboration solution supports the broadest range of end points \u2013 analog, digital, IP, and soft phones; PCs, MACs; Android and iOS smart phones and tablets.<\/p>\n<p>Avaya IP Office is available now from Avaya Connect Channel Partners.<\/p>\n<p>Avaya is a global provider of business collaboration and communications solutions, providing unified communications, contact centers, networking and related services to companies of all sizes around the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>For more information, visit www.avaya.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the center of the Avaya strategy is Avaya IP Office 9.0, a single software platform for collaboration with highly flexible deployment options for companies up to 2,000 users that is capable of being deployed in as little as an hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[248,1135,1136],"class_list":["post-3476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biz-solutions","tag-avaya","tag-avaya-ip-office-9-0","tag-midmarket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}