Avaya develops a new Collaboration Pod flavour for mid-sized companies

Source: Avaya website.
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Avaya yesterday announced a new model of the Avaya Collaboration Pod that is built specifically to serve mid-sized enterprises. Based on solutions from Avaya, HP, EMC, and VMware, the fully-integrated and tested Avaya Collaboration Pod 2400 can reduce the time to service for engagement solutions to weeks from months.

The Collaboration Pod 2400 for midsize enterprises arrives following the market success of a larger version, the Collaboration Pod 4200, which was designed for cloud service providers (CSPs) and large enterprises. Since its launch in 2014, the larger model has been implemented by companies in every region around the world.

Designed for rapid implementation and streamlined management of Avaya Engagement Solutions, the new Collaboration Pod 2400 Series combines applications, servers, storage, networking and management components in an easy-to-deploy, ready-to-operate package. The Collaboration Pod is customised to the requirements of each customer and can be expanded as needs change. 

The Avaya Collaboration Pod 2400 can be combined with Avaya’s unified access technologies for a complete, single vendor solution for mid-sized enterprises that includes networking, data centre and applications for mobile engagement environments. Avaya and authorised channel partners can provide “single source” support for all Collaboration Pod components, simplifying software upgrades and eliminating the need for support coverage from multiple vendors.

Avaya is also launching a fast-track Collaboration Pod on-boarding programme for qualified Avaya channel partners to help them quickly and successfully deliver the new Collaboration Pod 2400 to customers, as well as a demo programme for customers and channel partners.

Avaya plans to make the new Collaboration Pod available globally in late June. Collaboration Pod Elite workshops for channel partners are currently scheduled for July in the US and will be offered in Singapore in November.

“Mid-sized enterprises understand the strategic value of technology, but typically have more financial and skills support restraints than larger enterprises. The Avaya Collaboration Pod 2400 is perfect for their needs, enabling them to rapidly utilise our Engagement Solutions via a significantly streamlined deployment model and improving customer and team engagement throughout their business,” said Liam Kiely, Vice President, Networking Infrastructure, Avaya.