Customer-Led Open Solutions Deliver Choice and Improve Meeting Room
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SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Avaya Holdings Corp. (NYSE: AVYA), a global leader in solutions to
enhance and simplify communications and collaboration, today introduced
a number of enhancements to its video offering that promise to transform
the group meeting room experience as well as business video economics.
Avaya has expanded its comprehensive video collaboration solutions
portfolio with new offerings designed for today’s smaller meeting
spaces–including new Avaya IX Huddle Cameras, which deliver high quality
video at prices that match small meeting space budgets, and the Avaya IX
Collaboration Unit, which is an open “all-in-one” next-generation
collaboration solution. In addition, Avaya now makes it possible for
businesses to move their group conferencing rooms into the cloud with a
comprehensive “Huddle as a Service” monthly subscription model.
Avaya is uniquely addressing the growing business need to add
collaboration technology to small meeting spaces, often called huddle
rooms, by making the overall experience more intelligent. Frost and
Sullivan estimates there are over 32 million of these huddle rooms in
offices worldwide, of which a very small percentage are equipped with
video collaboration technology. According to Frost and Sullivan, huddle
room meetings will surge from 12 percent to 70 percent of all video
conferencing by 2023.
In the past, these spaces have received little attention from business
IT teams. However, with a continuing focus on team collaboration
solutions, business dynamics changing to more frequent and smaller
meetings across geographically distributed locations, and with the onset
of more open-space plans, huddle room technology has now become a point
of focus for businesses.
“Avaya is moving the huddle room experience beyond the status quo with
customer-led solutions that seamlessly integrate with their existing UC
and video infrastructures,” said Chris McGugan, Avaya SVP, Solutions &
Technology. “Customers also want to use their favorite cloud-based
collaboration applications and our next-generation open architecture
enables this. The result is a much richer user experience, plug and play
simplicity, and the ability to leverage existing investments. This
approach combined with the flexibility of a subscription model will
accelerate the extension of video collaboration to all areas of an
organization and within business verticals.”
“VIDEOGECOM is very excited to be able to offer Avaya’s next generation
huddle room solutions to our customers,” said Pierfrancesco Coluzzi, CEO
of VIDEOGECOM. “In our experience, it is by far the easiest huddle room
solution to set-up and use. It is a cloud-centric world and the Avaya IX
Collaboration Unit takes full advantage of all the cloud has to offer
for businesses.”
Avaya IX Huddle Cameras can be used with Avaya IX Room Video
solutions or connected to a laptop to deliver High Definition (HD) video
at price points that align with the needs of smaller meeting spaces. The
HC020 and HC050 are easy to deploy and use, and both provide an
exceptional video experience.
The Avaya IX Collaboration Unit is an all-in-one collaboration
device that represents a breakthrough in performance and price. This
unit does not require a laptop connection, meaning it delivers easy
startup, reliability and consistently high quality every time. It sits
on top of the video screen, has integrated microphones, and provides a
wide field of view which is important for huddle spaces that are
typically not very deep but can be very wide. It also offers wireless
content sharing from mobile smart devices. This next-generation huddle
room solution provides UC platform integration, interoperability with
standards-based video infrastructures, and enables users to run and
share their cloud-based applications of choice. It is the first
all-in-one device to bring everything the cloud has to offer to the
huddle space in a way that makes sense for businesses of all sizes.
The Avaya IX Workplace accelerates business by providing a single
application that delivers calling, messaging, meetings and team
collaboration–all with the same ease of use associated with personal
applications. The Avaya IX Workplace can be delivered on premise or via
private, public or hybrid cloud.
“Huddle as a Service” Monthly Subscription Model: Organizations
currently expect to spend much less for huddle room technology than they
would spend for a large corporate conference room setup. However, huddle
room conferencing solutions can still be very costly. And although
businesses often subscribe to their web-based video meeting solutions on
a monthly basis, their budgets are hit with the up-front costs of the
meeting room devices.
Avaya has broken through this up-front cost barrier–allowing businesses
to purchase all elements of their huddle room solutions–including the
Avaya IX Workplace and the room devices–on a monthly basis.
For about the same price that current providers are charging for only
the cloud connection, businesses can have access to a complete huddle
room solution from Avaya.
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About Avaya
Businesses are built on the experiences they provide, and every day
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one hundred years, we’ve enabled organizations around the globe to win –
by creating intelligent communications experiences for customers and
employees. Avaya builds open, converged and innovative solutions to
enhance and simplify communications and collaboration – in the cloud,
on-premise or a hybrid of both. To grow your business, we’re committed
to innovation, partnership, and a relentless focus on what’s next. We’re
the technology company you trust to help you deliver Experiences that
Matter. Visit us at www.avaya.com.
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