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The possibility to simplify business processes and reduce costs is no longer a potential of unified communicatios and has now become a reality which is already transforming the way we communicate in the business arena. Ahead of this challenge, Avaya and Polycom, leading manufacturers, are joining efforts to multiply users’ benefits and exceed the channels’ and customers’ expectations.

Avaya and Polycom have recently informed of the expansion of their alliance in the development and marketing of their fully integrated voice and video collaboration  solutions. Anixter’s value partners will be launching their unified communications solutions based on Avaya Aura platform SIP technology, and Polycom’s Open Collaboration Network.

The backbone of the alliance is the Avaya Aura platform for the management and handling of all communications. Working alongside Polycom’s integrated voice and video systems, it will allow to provide customers with efficient, real-time collaboration solutions.

The Avaya Aura platform simplifies existing communication architectures, thus allowing companies to manage, program and organize joint solutions on a single, centralized management central. It also enables to control bandwidth and provides users with a superior experience and optimum performance of all network resources.

Thanks to the Avaya Aura platform, Polycom will be offering telepresence and voice and video collaboration, as well as integrated solutions within unified communication environments. These features facilitate users access to these technologies for their daily tasks, all under one single, easy-to-manage, easy-to-deploy solution.

100% Interoperable Solutions
To respond to the growing demand for convergent telephony and video communication solutions, Avaya and Polycom have developed next-generation conferencing products based on the Internet protocol.

Within Polycom conferencing telephone portfolio, there are two types of solutions which are totally interoperable with Avaya environments. On the one hand, Avaya 1692, running under Avaya proprietary protocols; and on the other hand, two SIP-based models:  Soundstation IP 6000 and Soundstation IP 7000, working with Avaya IP telephony platforms supporting SIP.

With this synergy, based on maximum interoperability and the latest current standards - such as the SIP protocol- your customers will be able to obatin a significant return on investment, a reduction on response times and important improvements in the performance of all resources.

Contact your executive at Anixter, and find out how the Avaya-Polycom combined offer can provide your customers with the capacity to leverage their communications.