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Avaya, Cisco address VoIP vulnerabilities
Jun. 26, 2008
Avaya and Cisco have addressed a VoIPshield Laboratories report that their VoIP gear is vulnerable to a variety of attacks. The vulnerabilities also impact certain Nortel gear.
Fix for retail: Avaya aims to improve customer service
Mar. 18, 2008
How often do you go to a store, only to leave it because you're not getting timely answers from customer service reps on the products you want to buy? Since patience, unfortunately, is not one of my virtues (despite ...
Sun upgrades Identity Manager software; Avaya, Cisco and Nortel face VoIP vulnerabilities
Jun. 25, 2008
Sun has released the next version of its provisioning software and deeply integrated it with role management tools as it continues to push policy-based identity management; VoIP customers of Avaya, Cisco and Nortel ...
Avaya, Cisco and Nortel face VoIP vulnerabilities
Jun. 24, 2008
VoIP customers of Avaya, Cisco and Nortel should look Wednesday for patches that correct newly found vulnerabilities that, if exploited, can result in remote code execution; unauthorized access; denial of service; and ...
Avaya's small business phone ploy
Apr. 10, 2008
I'm not thrilled that Avaya calls its phone line Unified Communications for Small Business, because "Unified Communications" normally means putting all your communication eggs in one basket. You know, e-mails and voice ...
Remote access kit targets 'green workers'
Mar. 25, 2008
Aruba Networks and Avaya last week touted the green credentials of remote workers after both companies announced they would collaborate on an IP-based voice and data access system for teleworkers.
Unified communications early adopters tout benefits
Mar. 20, 2008
ORLANDO -- Businesses presenting their stories at this week's VoiceCon Orlando 2008 are finding that unified communications can increase productivity, reduce costs, speed up customer service and even do good things for ...
Avaya CEO calls for democratization of unified communications
Mar. 18, 2008
Unified Communications needs to be brought to the masses, and in the process that can help solve the country's current economic woes, VoiceCon Orlando 2008 attendees were told Tuesday.
Avaya creates unified communications bundles
Mar. 17, 2008
Avaya is introducing four bundles of its gear at VoiceCon Orlando that are designed to address specific business needs: teleworkers, mobile workers, home call-center agents, small businesses. The company is also ...
The business case for mobile collaboration
Mar. 06, 2008
You hear a lot these days about two topics: mobility and collaboration. Unified communication and collaboration (UCC) is getting promoted by vendors ranging from Microsoft and IBM to Cisco, Avaya and Nortel.
Avaya awaits SDK to decide on enhanced iPhone support
Mar. 05, 2008
Avaya is demonstrating the iPhone version of its one-X Mobile client at Cebit, but company officials have not yet decided whether to use the upcoming SDK from Apple to enhance the application.
Cellular/Wi-Fi convergence wins over some early users
Feb. 14, 2008
Early products and services that shift voice calls seamlessly between wireless LAN and cellular networks are proving themselves to enterprise users.
Fresh-produce wholesaler investigates UMA, single-channel WLANs
Feb. 06, 2008
I got to wondering recently how Anthony Marano Co., a 57-year-old fruits and vegetables wholesaler in Chicago, was continuing to meet its extreme need for dual-mode Wi-Fi-to-cellular voice roaming. The company has been ...
Avaya boosts SIP support
Jan. 29, 2008
Avaya has upgraded its IP telephony gear to offer better support of the SIP signaling protocol, which for enterprises translates into more phone features and greater efficiencies in business VoIP deployments.
Avaya quietly delivers mobile convergence
Jan. 02, 2008
Avaya has quietly rolled out PBX-extension and seamless inter-network roaming capabilities to its customer base. Unlike other mobile convergence setups that require an appliance for wireless signal handoff and ...
Giancarlo vs. Chambers: Former number two at Cisco becomes number one at competitor Avaya ...
Jun. 11, 2008
Although the official June 9th, 2008 Avaya press release emphatically states:
"Giancarlo will assume the Avaya CEO and President role full time and will remain in that role until a successor is named."
Yours truly ...
Why SIP Standardization is Critical | NetworkWorld.com Community
Aug. 06, 2008
If you're even remotely interested in the convergence / VoIP / unified communications field and haven't read Steve Taylor and Jim Metzler's article on SIP interoperability, you should. I would like to expand a bit on ...
Avaya claims iPhone is ready for business
Dec. 20, 2007
Avaya claims it has turned the iPhone into a viable business tool by porting its one-X Mobile client onto it. The software will turn an iPhone into a "personal remote control for enterprise comms," the company said, ...
VoIP vulnerabilities increasing, but not exploits
Dec. 17, 2007
PBXs are servers on corporate networks and are susceptible to the many exploits that networks in general are heir to, such as denial-of-service and buffer overflows. There have been few exploits so far, however, and ...
Award-winning IT projects: See the All-Stars on a map
Nov. 26, 2007
We look at blogs of 15 top networking companies and analyze them based on criteria we developed.
Avaya gets iPhone ready for business
Nov. 12, 2007
Avaya is announcing today an iPhone version of its one-X Mobile client software that can communicate with a corporate Avaya VoIP PBX, giving the phones quick access to PBX extension phone functions, such as conferencing ...
Avaya ponders post-merger moves
Oct. 25, 2007
With Avaya close to completing its merger with Silver Lake and TPG, Karyn Mashima, Avaya's senior vice president of strategy and technology, says that going private will not dramatically affect or alter the company's ...
Vonage settles with Sprint; 3Com, Avaya going private
Oct. 17, 2007
Vonage last week announced that it had settled its patent dispute with Sprint and had entered into a licensing arrangement under Sprint's Voice over Packet (VOP) patent portfolio. Under the terms of the agreement, ...
The best and worst vendor blogs
Oct. 05, 2007
We look at blogs of 15 top networking companies and analyze them based on criteria we developed.
Elevator maker gets a lift out of VoIP
Sep. 26, 2007
Elevator maker ThyssenKrupp is adopting ShoreTel VoIP gear to centralize telecom management, reduce maintenance costs and improve the capabilities of its call centers.
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Avaya profile
Overview
2005 NW200 rank: 30
2004 NW200 rank: 31
Revenue
| Total '05 revenue (in $M) |
|
5003 |
| '04-'05 revenue change |
|
18% |
| '01-'05 CAGR revenue |
|
-7% |
Profit
| Profit or loss (in $M) |
|
961 |
| Change from '04 |
|
203 |
| As percentage of revenue 19 |
|
19 |
| CAGR, '01-'05 |
|
- |
Employees
| Number of employees |
|
18550 |
| '04 - '05 change |
|
24
|
| Revenue per employee |
|
269704 |
Misc.
| Mkt Cap as of 3/19/05 ($M) |
|
5570 |
| Cash/investments ($M) |
|
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| Year inc. |
|
2000 |
| Fiscal year ends |
|
Sept |
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