Two news announcements in the headlines today: Avaya has announced its latest offer with Avaya Aura Conferencing 7.0, while BroadSoft has acquired Adaption Technologies Ventures, a Texas-based provider of hosted business VoIP solutions.
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Avaya has announced the latest version of the company’s multi-modal conferencing with Avaya Aura Conferencing 7.0, along with a new version of its unified communications platform and expanded mobility features for the Avaya Communication Server 1000 (CS1000).
Avaya Aura Conferencing 7.0 solution enables session-based, unified voice and Web collaboration from anywhere using desktop Macs or PCs, tablets and smartphones. Supported by the SIP-based architecture of Avaya Aura 6.2, the latest conferencing solution is designed to provide scalable and secure mobile collaboration and BYOD environments. Among the new features:
• One-stop access from the interface of the Avaya Flare Experience on Apple iPad tablets and Microsoft Windows PCs or laptops — supporting communications and multimodal collaboration, voice, document sharing, IM/presence, email and consolidated corporate and personal directories.
• A Collaboration Agent client enabling any Web browser or iPhone to work with the Avaya Flare Experience on iPad tablets and Windows PCs/laptops.
• Visual and contextual controls to eliminate typical disruptions in traditional conference sessions, such as announcing attendees and background noise.
• Scalability to handle 7,500 active conferencing sessions supporting remote workers.
Avaya Aura Conferencing 7.0 is priced at $140 per user, while the Collaboration Agent browser interface is $190 per user. Avaya CS 1000 customers can add an Avaya Aura-based Collaboration Pack as a single server solution supporting SIP and mobility choices.
In other news, BroadSoft announced it has acquired Adaption Technologies’ infrastructure and Rialto, its Web-based service operating platform. The acquisition is designed to help BroadSoft’s telecommunications service provider customers more quickly sell, provision, activate and bill for their hosted unified communications services.
