Avaya considering tie-up with RingCentral to save it from fire sale – report Troubled telecoms provider Avaya has hit pause on plans to find a buyer amid reports it may enter into a joint venture with videoconferencing provider RingCentral instead. The business, which emerged from bankruptcy two years ago, put itself up for sale earlier this year after a particularly bad set of Q2 results. However, …
In the old days phone systems like other things where all hardware. The company stopped making them and you could keep things going / expand it via the second-hand market.
Avaya IP Office customers have kit controlled by licences on an SD card, you want more IP phones, IP trunks, you need licences on that SD card to allow them to work.
No Avaya - No new licences - No changes to your system.
Your SD card fails, no licence transfer to new SD card, no phone system
Why continue to invest in an Avaya system as when they go you can’t add any more extensions even though you have the phone in your hand? Customers are going to cut and run.
You want a licence today Avaya will say you must upgrade to the latest firmware and pay £££ for no new feature that you need.
Phone systems easily last 10 years plus, it’s a good time to move on…
Who were the big beasts? Nortel - Mitel - Avaya
Nortel - BT preferred supplier for years, gone, Avaya got some of the bits
Avaya - Until One Phone BTs preferred supplier about to go
Mitel - delisted from the stock market after continuing losses and reaching share price low
So possibly I put the “s” on the wrong place - Dinosaurs Face Extinction
More and more vendors building cheap powerful hardware with annual licenses being the income stream. Virtualisation is squeezing ever more hardware income too. Do you want an expensive hardware firewall or lots of smaller capacity virtual ones for the same price.
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