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Voda One Streamlines Delivery of IP Telephony Solutions for Enterprise Customers By Providing Unique Avaya Modular Messaging Capability

Posted on: Tuesday, 19 July 2005, 12:00 CDT

Voda One to Stock, Configure, Test and Ship Avaya Modular Messaging product Directly to VARs, Shortening Market Cycle

Voda One, a specialty distributor of networking and communications technology solutions and a division of the multi-national Westcon Group, Inc., announced that it is serving its enterprise customers more efficiently by handling final channel assembly on the Avaya Modular Messaging product. By performing these functions at the distributor level, Voda One is able to deliver IP telephony solutions to its enterprise customers by up to 75% faster than previously possible.

By bringing Avaya Modular Messaging products to market faster, Voda One enables BusinessPartners to realize revenue recognition on an accelerated basis. Voda One already performs final channel assembly for Avaya Communication Manager IP telephony and TDM servers.

Robert Linder, vice president of sales for Voda One, commented: "Avaya's new program helps us make our BusinessPartners more competitive by enabling us to deploy complex convergence solutions on an expedited basis. These solutions, which are assembled in a dedicated integration facility in our warehouse, are totally customized to fit the need."

Avaya Modular Messaging enables workers to easily access and manage voice and fax messages in Internet Protocol (IP) and traditional telecom network environments. Avaya is the world leader in voice messaging and unified messaging, with approximately 117 million voice mailboxes in use by businesses today. Avaya Modular Messaging uses industry standards to provide interoperable systems that allow companies to enhance the value of current messaging systems while moving toward efficient, next-generation converged networks.

"Our goal is to enable our distributors to offer faster delivery of intelligent communications to enterprise customers. Together with Voda One, we are moving integration closer to the customer and speeding the market delivery and quality of our Modular Messaging solution." said Jim Smith, vice president, product management, Enterprise Communications Applications division, Avaya. "Avaya Modular Messaging is our flagship messaging platform, providing the performance and quality that BusinessPartners need to deliver to their enterprise customers."

Lisa Porter, vice president of communications technology at Kansas City-based Choice Solutions LLC, a Voda One BusinessPartner, commented: "We are pleased that Voda One, through its arrangement with Avaya, will be in a position to delivery the Avaya Modular Messaging platform faster and more efficiently. Voda One has always demonstrated an incredible competency in the area of final channel assembly having achieved ISO 9000 certification, and this new development will ultimately help shorten our sales cycle."

About Voda One

Voda One is a division of Westcon Group, Inc. and a specialty distributor of voice, data and video-integrated technology products and solutions. The division is a significant sales channel for Avaya and other manufacturers, offering products and services for convergence technology, telephony, IP-based communications, call center technology, Internet messaging, virtual private networks and wireless connectivity. Voda One provides a breadth of training programs, technical support and logistics services to complement its solution portfolio. For more information, visit www.vodaone.com.

Source: Business Wire

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