Avaya™ IP Office Picked as a "Product of the Year 2002" by Communications Convergence Magazine

The Avaya™ IP Office was among 15 pace-setting convergence products, services, and technologies that were selected as a "Product of the Year 2002" by Communications Convergence magazine. The editors wrote that the "winners have certain features in common: eye-opening innovation, solid engineering, good value-for-money (normally exceeding the expectations of their intended markets)."

 

In singling out Avaya, the editors wrote: "IP Office is truly an office-in-a-box, combining a 100-station voice system (supports DEFINITY® 6400 series phones), an eight-port router-hub for data networking, and a T1/PRI WAN interface. But the Office is not just about hardware. Avaya has bundled it with Compact Business Center, a 75-agent ACD, and Integrated Messaging, which synchronizes voice and fax with Microsoft Exchange. Avaya lets this software reside on the Office rather than requiring, as other vendors do, a separate NT-server to run business applications. There's also an integrated H.323 gateway, so when small businesses are ready to take advantage of VoIP, they can link up Avaya's IP phones. And Avaya's IP Office isn't just for small businesses — it works for larger organizations, too. Avaya Office's support of open-standard Q.SIG networking lets a branch office communicate with the main office PBX, regardless of whether it's an Avaya system or someone else's."