Avaya is building six new IP telephony hardware and software products intended to help voice-over-IP technology make the jump from smaller businesses to large-scale enterprises.
The six new products kick off the company's new ECLIPS - Enterprise Class IP Solutions - product line, aimed at midsize to large enterprises. The ECLIPS line of IP telephony products are intended to interoperate as a complete replacement system for circuit-switched PBX, voice mail and call center technologies.
The ECLIPS product launch will offer large enterprises the first line of IP telephony hardware and software that can scale to meet the user demands of a large enterprise, claims Carl Wiese, vice president for product management at Avaya.
The products being announced are:
*The Avaya IP600 IP Communications Server, a 19-inch rack-mounted, Windows NT-based IP PBX, which includes voice mail, six-party calling, automated attendant and call center features for 20 to 200 seats, with maximum support for 12,000 seats.
*The Avaya R300 Remote Office Communicator, a remote/branch office IP telephony device which extends a central office voice system and voice applications, as well as firewall and VPN capabilities, to remote offices with up to 25 users.
*DEFINITY IP Solutions software, which ships with the IP600 and provides traffic handling, call control and routing for Avaya IP telephones and software-based phones.
*The Avaya Directory Gateway, an Lightweight Directory Access Protocol-compatible, Web-based tool which provides centralized management of an entire enterprise phone network, and integrates with other enterprise directories.
*Avaya 12-button 4612 and 24-button 4624 IP telephones feature a 10/100M bit/sec Ethernet connection for a desktop PC, and can be configured with Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol or statically configured with an IP address.
*Avaya IP Softphone software for PCs, which emulates Avaya digital phone functions and includes video conferencing capabilities.
The IP600 is $US500 to $US750 per port, with the R300 costing between $US500 to $US1,100 per port. The DEFINITY IP software ranges from $US7,500 to $US12,000. The Directory Gateway is priced at $US4,995 for a single server connection, and $US999 for each additional server. The 12-port and 24-port IP phones cost $US575 and $US769 respectively, and the IP Softphone software sells for $US5,100 for a 30-user license.
All products will ship in the next 60 days. All of the ECLIPS products will be demonstrated at the Avaya booth at NetWorld+Interop 2000 in Atlanta the week of Sept. 25.
Avaya, the former enterprise network division of Lucent, will be spun off from Lucent on Sept. 30. Trading of Avaya stock will begin on Oct. 2.www.avaya.com.