News & Updates

Two months ago the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games saw 4.9 Billion bytes of internet traffic traversing the network. Like the athletes, fit and trained for their purpose, so was the network supporting the Games (supplied by Avaya) which was able to deal with and respond to the unanticipated. The network ended the Olympics with 100% availability after delivering the equivalent of 3 Sup...

It is one of life’s ironies that a teacher often learns as much from the student as the student learns from the teacher. Certainly it is true from my experience, which stretches back over ten years to when I was first approached to lead a photography course at evening college – sure I knew my content (I hold a Diploma in Photography after all), but I had no idea how to deliver. The hardest p...

Today, Avaya is pleased to join millions of people and businesses around the world in the 40th annual celebration of Earth Day. We take this day to consider and evaluate our own environmental sustainability and honor the importance of these issues to many of our stakeholders, including our customers, partners and employees. Geoffrey Baird, our Sustainability Officer articulates the Avaya Sustai...

Jim Hughes, a Consulting Systems Engineering colleague of mine, was recently doing a bit of fatherly bragging, talking about how his son was attending Flashpoint: The Academy of Media Arts and Sciences in Chicago (and referencing how Robert DeNiro's Tribeca production company was taking a large stake in the future of the school). As my grad school days are long behind me, he went on to explain t...

I’d like to introduce myself as one of the newest bloggers on the Avaya site. My name is Daryl Page, and I am the managing director for Avaya’s hospitality vertical solutions. I’m responsible for the overall definition, management and delivery of the Avaya strategy in these markets. My background includes several years at EDS, as a client industry executive and VP of CRM solutions practice, ...