Comments on: Avaya/Nortel Integrated Roadmap Keynote

By: Michael McNamara

Michael McNamara — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:52:10 +0000

There were some rumors that Avaya was perhaps looking to sell the entire data portfolio for fears of entering into direct competition with some of it’s long time strategic partners in the Ethernet switch market.

While those are only rumors it does make me stop for a second and think.

I believe it’ll take time for customers to start to warm up to the idea and ultimately time will tell if the Avaya/Nortel marriage is going to be a success or failure.

Cheers

By: DaveTheRave

DaveTheRave — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:43:35 +0000

From the presentation and the breakout session on data which is still available I get the strong impression the data side of things (ERS,8600 etc) is in good shape and will not get hit. Good news!

By: qazzie

qazzie — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:49:20 +0000

Ye they have a lot work still to do, but wasn’t suprised with the information just provided. But that guy from forrester… zomg! boring…

By: Michael McNamara

Michael McNamara — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 03:34:07 +0000

In reply to Jeff Wiener.

Thanks for taking the time to comment Jeff.

It will undoubtedly take some time to get to all the details, I already have a meeting scheduled with Avaya/Nortel to review today’s announcement. Unfortunately for some of us we sometimes need to budget 2-3 years out for very large construction projects. It’s difficult to budget for equipment that might not be available when the time comes to actually order the equipment.

So while the quick answer from Avaya/Nortel is “business as usual” and “we’ll support everything”. The long term migration strategy needs a lot of detail so customers will understand what will and won’t migrate and in what time frames.

Cheers!

By: Jeff Wiener

Jeff Wiener — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:44:02 +0000

Although many of the specifics are somewhat vague, the overall product direction is not. The Nortel BCM 50, BCM 200, BCM 400, BCM 50 and Norstar will converge / morph into the Avaya IP Office product line some time in 2011. Avaya’s intention is to take a best of breed approach with respect to product development moving forward incorporating the best of Nortel’s BCM and adding that level of functionality into theAvaya IP Office product line.

There will, eventually, be support for some of the Nortel handsets on the Avaya product line although that isn’t expected for some time.

Jeff Wiener
http://www.TheTelecomBlog.com