Networking

Avaya buys Nortel’s enterprise assets, bringing UC leader into network world

Avaya’s acquisition of Nortel’s enterprise assets doesn’t come as a huge surprise, as Shamus McGillicuddy noted weeks ago when acquisition rumors swirled. Even the price was pretty spot on: Rumored $500 million, actual sale price $475 million. But now that the sale is official, Avaya’s the proud owner of a huge enterprise unified communications customer base that will be looking for answers on if and when a migration strategy will appear.

They also inherited a large networking business outside of Avaya’s core focus, as Shamus notes on the Network Hub blog, but I’m sure they’ll find something to do with that.

The full text of Avaya’s press release after the jump.

Further Reading:

• Nortel auction: Avaya or Siemens-Enterasys will bid for UC business
• Nortel enterprise business set to go to Avaya for $500 million?
• Nortel voice customers are the vendor’s only enterprise asset

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Psytechnics Experience Manager demo at VoiceCon

Psytechnics, a company that was spun out of British Telecom, has a cool product called Experience Manager. The product is one of the few I know of that can measure both QoS (quality of service) and QoE (quality of experience) for voice and video applications on the IP network. Many network management vendors are good at detecting jitter, packet loss, etc., for voice and video, but Psytechnics is able to measure how the end user is experiencing these services on an endpoint device.

Here is Tom Casey, a sales engineer with Psychtehnics, demonstrating the operational interface of Experience Manager, recorded last week at VoiceCon Orlando. Sorry for the jittery camera. I drank too much coffee.