| | Focusing Avaya's SIP Technology Investments | Avaya delivers enterprise communications solutions that address the needs of business users, business leaders, and IT executives. Avaya’s market leading unified communications and contact center software applications improve collaboration, reduce operating costs and create greater business agility for our customers. Avaya continues to make key investments in core communications capabilities to ensure that our solutions deliver the scale, performance, and reliability required by customers. Our SIP Application Server technology, originally acquired from Ubiquity Software, provides an important foundation for highly distributed SIP-based communications solutions that Avaya is leveraging in new solutions. This technology has been available to developers via UDN, an Avaya DevConnect program. We have determine a more sustainable solution is to leverage our open standards interfaces thereby preserving our DevConnect partners over time going forward. The underlying technology remains a core foundation component for Avaya applications best accessible via the open standards interfaces. Avaya’s DevConnect partners and customers will continue to benefit from this technology through the scalability, high availability and faster time to market of Avaya solutions. Avaya will continue to nurture our vibrant ISV and partner community through DevConnect, by enabling value added applications to be integrated through open standards with Avaya solutions, and allowing those solutions to be integrated into line of business applications. This can be accomplished through our rich portfolio of application enablement capabilities, including: - Application Enablement Services which provides APIs and Web Services to leverage the capabilities of Avaya Communication Manager in UC and Contact Center applications, including Microsoft and IBM desktop environments;
- Intelligent Presence Server, which federates presence across multi-vendor systems and allows applications and users to determine people’s availability for individual and group collaboration;
- Meeting Exchange, which enables integration of audio, video and web collaboration into end user interfaces and business processes;
- Avaya Voice Portal, which provides a rich VoiceXML development and deployment platform for voice, speech and video applications that are integrated through Web Services with business applications.
Avaya customers and partner community can also leverage Avaya Professional Services for assistance with these technologies and solutions. Base level membership in DevConnect is free to all developers, and offers access to a wide range of API information, Software Development Kits, developer tools, educational materials, sample applications and more. Visit www.avaya.com/devconnect for up-to-date program news and more information regarding membership options. |
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