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Avaya looks to simplify communications

Steve Taylor By Steve Taylor and Larry Hettick
This week we'll continue discussing news from last week's CTIA and VoiceCon conferences. There were announcements from GENBAND on its Converged Gateway upgrades; from Avaya on its new Aura platform (and a related contact center solution); and from Acme Packet about a right-sized SBC for the smaller enterprise. In addition, Shoretel released mobile and desktop enhancements; and 8x8 introduced a new enterprise version of its hosted IP-PBX. Read full story

Steve Taylor is president of Distributed Networking Associates and publisher/editor-in-chief of Webtorials. Larry Hettick is a principal analyst at Current Analysis.

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