Avaya

Avaya is a privately held telecommunications company which specializes in enterprise network, telephony, and call center technology. Formerly the Business Communications unit of Lucent Technologies, it was spun off on October 1, 2000, with 34,000 employees.

Since being spun off, Avaya has sold its manufacturing and connectivity businesses and acquired several companies to support its current product set – Vista, VPNet. Quintus, Routescience, Nimcat Networks, Spectel, Ubiquity Software and Traverse Networks. Sales through channels have grown from 98% direct to 50% alternative channels.

Avaya has also expanded in Europe through the acquisition of Tenovis and in Asia through a majority interest in Tata Telecom (now Avaya Global Connect).

On October 26, 2007 Avaya was acquired by two private equity firms, TPG Capital and Silver Lake Partners, for $8.2 billion. As a result of this transaction Avaya became a privately held company, no longer traded on any stock market. On November 9, 2007, the firms completed their buy-out and Avaya shareholders received $17.50 per share of owned common stock.

On Sep 14, 2009, Avaya was announced as the winner for the Nortel Enterprise Division sale. Avaya successfully bid Nortel Enterprise for $900M.
On Dec 21, 2009, Avaya and Nortel officially closed the sale, to create Avaya with a total of about 21,000 employees.
On March 8, 2010 Avaya renewed the LG-Nortel relationship to continue Avaya Data Solutions sales into Korea.[6]

AVAYA PRODUCTS

Communication Manager (CM)
IP Office, a hybrid key/PBX and digital/IP based telephone system
Unified Messaging
EC500 (Extension to Cellular)
1400 Series Digital telephones
1600 and 9600 IP deskphones
16CC, an IP based call center telephone, replacing the CallMaster telephone line
2400 DCP telephones
2500 based telephones (made from Avaya’s telephone equipment descendants)
4600 IP Telephones