VoIP — Avaya

BEST OF BREED SWITCH AND VOICE-OVER-IP SOLUTION

High Performance Connectivity Solutions

Now, more than ever, effective communication is a key resource for any business. Force10 and Avaya understand the need for connectivity, and together fuse Avaya’s market-leading VoIP technology with Force10 high performance switches/routers. The Force10 switch fabric provides reliable, stable solutions that eliminate network downtime, and joins with Avaya to deliver integrated VoIP telephone solutions that are viable and cost-effective alternatives to traditional telephone services. The result is a unifying communication network that is easily deployed throughout organizations and expandable to grow as you do.

Together, Force10 and Avaya combine to bring you:

• Network Interoperability – Avaya Unified Communications platforms can be configured and seamlessly integrated with Force10 best-of-breed switching/routing technology
• Mobility – Users have access to communication tools regardless of their location
• Cost Efficiency – Inherent flexibility of Avaya’s products eliminates all costs for any moves, adds or changes
• Scalability – a switched IP core allows for Force10 to deliver resilient switching/routing and call control

Together, Force10 and Avaya provide a strategic advantage with unmatched features, applications, and minimized system costs. This gives businesses an overall strategic advantage, and essentially delivers on the promise of convergence.

Force10 Reliable Business Networks

Force10 Networks is a pioneer in building and securing reliable, high performance networks that extend pervasive reliability, network control and scalability from the data center to the enterprise wiring closet to create a unified network fabric that is designed to ensure application readiness and protect longterm investment. With patented advances in high performance system and backplane design as well as switching and routing optimization technologies, Force10 delivers the tools that have allowed many of the world’s largest data centers, service providers and research organizations to transform their networks into strategic assets.

Force10 has pioneered advances in high density Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet switching, routing and security. With its no compromise approach to networking, Force10 enables customers to build and secure reliable networks at the lowest total cost of ownership.

Avaya Solutions

Unified Communication Center

Customers can use any telephone and use speech to gain access access to calling and conferencing capabilities; voice, fax and email messages; enterprise directories and databases for contacts; and productivity tools such as calendars, contacts and tasks lists (Microsoft Exchange only). Unified Communication Center helps to enhancerevenue generation activities, improve customer service, and enable enterprise associates to be more productive.

Business Benefits of the Alliance

• Unified IP Infrastructure: Data, voice, video, conferencing and wireless
• High Reliability: Force10 Networks switches with hardened OS and redundant hardware combined with Avaya redundancy features
• High-quality Voice: IP Telephony with superior quality of service, lowest latency, delay and packet loss
• Best-of-Breed Interoperability: Avoid vendor lock-in through strong compliance to industry standards
• Ease of Use: End-to-end communications systems including integrated management systems
• Complete Service Offerings: From planning to maintenance
• Network Run-time Diagnostics: Real-time monitoring and improvement of voice traffic on IP networks

 

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