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Avaya launches a Unified Communications UC Benchmark



by Ted Ventresca

Over the years that I've covered the Military and Federal IT Communications space I have heard Generals and IT leaders asking for bundled, end to end solutions that can enhance or build upon existing infrastructure...enter the Avaya Aura™ Application Server 5300 Release 2.0. Desgined to provide a secure, next-generation, SIP-based UC solution that integrates voice, video, multimedia conferencing and collaboration with the dynamic capabilities enabled by Instant Messaging, live chat sessions and other presence-based communications.

The solution ensures mission critical communications for the war fighter offering high levels of security and resiliency and helps boost productivity by creating more intuitive and integrated user experiences. It can also provide service portability enabling communications from virtually anywhere and reduces operating costs by simplifying and centralizing network management functions and delivering optimal traffic routing.

This new release meets Department of Defense (DoD) and federal government security and service assurance requirements, and complies with the DoD Unified Capabilities Requirements (UCR) 2008 specification including support for AS-SIP, IPv6 and V.150.1. The solution has been granted JITC certification and has been added to the US DoD Unified Capabilities Approved Products List (APL) by the Defense Information Systems Agency.

"This is the first UCR 2008 UC solution in the market today that meets the US Federal Government's strict requirements for next-generation communications," said Steve Derr, vice president, Sales and Engineering, Avaya Government Solutions. "This product launch builds on Avaya Government Solutions' ongoing commitment to driving innovation that helps make critical government communications more reliable and secure, as well as more cost effective. The software-based architecture and deployment flexibility provides a solution to satisfy most government communications needs for new installations or to complement existing infrastructures."

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