1) Infrastructure and Dial Plan Consolidation

2) Applications Control Network Delivery

3) Multi Modal

4) Session Level Granularity

5) Comprehends Communications as a Conference

6) Directory Confederation Enabled

And while I certainly believe consolidation, standardization and interoperability are beautiful things, Avaya has an uphill battle, at least in the short term. SIP has been over-promised for years and years, while even full SIP compliance doesn’t guarantee the communications interoperability and unification Kennedy gushed about.

Still, it’s a beautiful dream and Avaya has big enough guns that it’s entirely possible, particularly as enterprises look to speed up deployments while reducing complexity.

Curt Franklin has a good write up on the rest of Kennedy’s Interop keynote if you’re interested in what you missed or want another perspective.

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