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Avaya: We're not Cisco when it comes to tablets

Despite Cisco's decision to end development on its Cius collaboration tablet, Avaya says it is still committed to its Flare Experience unified communications endpoint software... and to "support" the Avaya collaboration tablet on which it runs.

Avaya says it read the market for BYOD and unveiled a version of Flare for the iPad in January, called Flare Communicator. Flare Communicator offers integrated access to voice, email, and IM communications on an iPad, while Flare Experience - which runs on Avaya's Desktop Video Device (ADVD) tablet - provides the more holistic real-time communications and collaboration capabilities: desktop video, social media, audio/video/web conferencing, multiple directories, presence, instant messaging, and contextual history.

Avaya always intended to make the Flare Experience available for other devices than just its ADVD, a company spokesperson stated in an e-mail to The Cisco Connection:
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