Avaya Gains IP Telephony Leadership Positions in U.S. and Worldwide Markets

Avaya Holds #1 Position in U.S. IP Telephony, According to InfoTech; Leads in Worldwide IP Shipments, According to Synergy Research Group

For immediate release: 13-Aug-2003

Avaya Inc. (NYSE:AV), a leading global provider of communications networks and services for businesses, today announced that it has gained the leadership position in both the U.S. and worldwide enterprise Internet protocol (IP) telephony markets. The latest market information on this emerging technology was published by industry analyst firms InfoTech and Synergy Research Group, reflecting the U.S. and worldwide markets, respectively.

The research, compiled for the first calendar quarter of 2003, represents total IP line shipments, a key metric of measuring IP telephony leadership in the enterprise telephony market. According to the InfoTech report, InfoTrack for Enterprise Communications, Avaya's U.S. market share in IP telephony is 22 percent, representing an increase of four percentage points over the final quarter of 2002. Avaya is one of the fastest growing companies in the emerging IP telephony space, having increased its U.S. IP telephony shipments by 182 percent from the same period in 2002, more than double the industry rate. In the worldwide arena, according to the Synergy Research Group report Enterprise VoIP Worldwide Market Shares, Avaya leads with a 22 percent share of the total enterprise IP telephony market.

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Press Contact
Deb Kline, Media Relations
Avaya
908-953-6179
klined@avaya.com

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