Avaya IP Office 8.1 Just Released
Avaya just-released IP Office 8.1 includes new mobility, management and security features as well as custom built services to help SMEs take advantage of BYOD environments and mobility.
Avaya IP Office 8.1, which can serve SMEs as small as five employees, now scales up to 1,000 users in a single location
This gives mid-sized companies a more cost-effective, simplified way to manage more people on a network in one or multiple sites.
Mark Monday, vice president, Collaboration Platforms, Avaya, said: "With the bar raised on all aspects of business mobility, security and management, Avaya is bringing its innovation to the forefront of the SME space and extending it further into the mid-market.
"Avaya IP Office 8.1 introduces new capabilities that help our customers and partners succeed in a shifting collaboration landscape, while ensuring they have the capacity to meet expanding communications needs."
"Avaya IP Office 8.1 continues on this path and scales upward – helping more growing SMEs, mid-size companies and Avaya partners easily gain the benefits of enterprise-class collaboration."
Avaya IP Office 8.1 introduces:
- Avaya Flare® Communicator, the advanced mobility app previously only available to large enterprises, is now available to Avaya IP Office SME users on Apple iPad tablets or Windows-based laptops. It enables mobile access to collaboration capabilities such as business-class calling, presence, company directory search, and management of two simultaneous calls while mobile. Avaya Flare® Communicator for iPad tablets lets users 'drag and drop' available contacts into a spotlight, and launch instant messages, voice calls or emails by simply tapping the screen. The Avaya Flare® Communicator for Windows brings these capabilities to laptops.
- New Centralized Management and licensing capabilities eliminate the complexity of overseeing communications for multi-site environments by enabling effective management of several sites from one location. Adjustments to individual sites can be made using a simple administration tool, saving on costs, labor and time.
- Enhanced Security Options for Avaya IP Office adds protection against toll fraud, denial of service attacks, and other threats through use of a new SME version of Avaya Session Border Controller—a solution delivering a protective SIP-based firewall. It makes security easy and affordable for SMEs to implement, with advanced capabilities for mobile workers such as the ability to encrypt media and signaling connections without using a VPN for UC. Availability anticipated later calendar 3Q '12.
- Avaya IP Office Support Service, the first support service from Avaya for SMEs, provides fast resolution, technical support from experts, and secure remote access. New SSL-VPN capabilities embedded in Avaya IP Office 8.1 help ensure secure delivery of upgrades, patches and Web-based services. Customers are entitled to major upgrades, and Avaya partners can offer it via wholesale or co-delivery models.
