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Avaya Spotlights Real-Time Collaboration Solutions for Higher Education
DENVER, CO, Nov 06, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --
Avaya, a global provider of business communications and
collaboration solutions and services, is showcasing its latest
innovations in real-time collaboration for the education market at
EDUCAUSE 2012 in Denver. At the EDUCAUSE event -- the premier
gathering for higher education IT professionals -- Avaya is
demonstrating solutions that help students, faculty and staff benefit
from new advancements in immersive virtual worlds, video-enabled
learning, and campus safety.
Higher education is expanding as new advancements in online and
interactive technologies enable greater participation by students who
are no longer limited by distance and time. At EDUCAUSE, Avaya
(Exhibit Hall Booths #815 and #817) will demonstrate solutions in key
areas that are improving experiences, productivity and growth in this
market:
-- Collaborative Learning: Among the Avaya products tailor-made for
educational institutions is AvayaLive(TM) Engage, a Web-based
immersive collaboration environment that enables students, faculty and
staff to use personalized avatars in a 3-D environment. This is an
ideal solution for collaborative meetings, study sessions, online
learning, international studies, distance learning, and training and
recruiting. AvayaLive Engage was awarded a 2012 Ed-Tech Readers'
Choice Award in recognition of its advances in online learning
technology.
-- Video-Enabled Learning: Avaya will showcase the benefits of its easy
to use Radvision Scopia(R) applications, which create new
collaborative learning opportunities by bringing video-enabled
learning to life on mobile devices, in classrooms and at desktops. The
Scopia video conferencing portfolio supports an institution's
real-time video needs, spanning telepresence, classroom, and desktop
and mobile user applications. It can also interoperate with an
institution's existing video conferencing environment, helping drive
simpler, more cost-effective installations, while protecting an
organization's existing investments.
-- Campus Safety - In emergency situations on a campus, the Avaya
Notification Solution (ANS) can help institutions deliver timely
notifications of key events -- including warnings, threats, campus
closures and administrative reminders -- using multi-channel
notifications delivered to multiple endpoints, including mobile
phones, SMS and social media. In addition, Avaya's E911 solution can
be used to accurately locate a caller's physical location to inform
first responders of the exact location of an emergency on campus.
Calls can be accurately directed to the local emergency response
agency where the campus is located, even if an institution has many
campus centers across the nation.
Supporting quotes:
"Avaya's Radvision video conferencing solutions
provide critical real-time collaboration tools for the University of
Houston-Downtown (UHD). We use it for distance learning, day-to-day
communications between sites and for establishing communication
during a crisis. We've also delivered Scopia solutions to our end
users, which opens a new world of videoconferencing for university
employees and faculty who can participate in visual communications
via laptop, as well as students who can video conference into
classes. This gives us a flexible, easy-to-use platform that brings
traditional conference rooms right into desktop and mobile clients.
--Steve Cachia, manager for Video Network Services, University of
Houston-Downtown
Technology.
"Participants become immersed in the learning experience of AvayaLive
Engage and interact dynamically with each other and instructors using
a level of engagement comparable to that seen in a physical
classroom."
-- Dr. Peter Hirst, executive director, MIT Sloan School
of Management
"The education industry is ushering in a new era enhanced by
compelling interactive technologies. Avaya helps educational
institutions benefit with 'always-on' real-time collaboration
solutions that help ensure rich, detailed learning sessions can be
accessed from anywhere. This brings education to a new level, using
collaborative technologies to deliver rewarding experiences that can
reinforce valuable connections."
-- Sanjeev Gupta, General Manager,
Avaya Verticals.
Additional Resources:
-- AvayaLive(TM) Engage
-- Avaya Video and Conferencing Solutions
-- Avaya Solutions for Education
Supporting Facts:
-- U.S. and global education spending is estimated to be $4 trillion,
according to a September 2011 report by the President's Council of
Economic Advisors.
Tags: Avaya, Unified Communications, AvayaLive Engage, Avaya Aura,
Radvision Scopia, videoconferencing, distance learning
About Avaya:
Avaya is a global provider of business collaboration
and communications solutions, providing unified communications,
contact centers, networking and related services to companies of all
sizes around the world. For more information please visit
www.avaya.com.
Certain statements contained in this press release are
forward-looking statements. These statements may be identified by the
use of forward-looking terminology such as "anticipate," "believe,"
"continue," "could," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "might,"
"plan," "potential," "predict," "should" or "will" or other similar
terminology. We have based these forward-looking statements on our
current expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections. While
we believe these expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections
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description of such risks and uncertainties, please refer to Avaya's
filings with the SEC that are available at www.sec.gov/. Avaya
disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any
forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information,
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Media Inquiries
Jonathan Varman
908-953-6432
jvarman@avaya.com
SOURCE: Avaya Inc.
mailto:jvarman@avaya.com
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