Avaya

Avaya Inc. is a US-based communications company headquartered in Basking Ridge (New Jersey) / United States that specializes in telephony, call center technology and data network solutions. The company was established on 2 October 2000 and has been the acquisition by the investment firms Silver Lake Partners and Texas Pacific Group (TPG ) in private ownership. Avaya has more than 17,000 employees of which approximately 3,000 are employed in Germany worldwide. The strong presence of Avaya in the German market is due to the acquisition of German telecommunications company Tenovis in 2004 ago.

The communications company is one of the leading companies in the field of IP telephony ( VoIP), unified communications and call center solutions. According to information of the company represent 90 % of the Fortune 500 companies products from Avaya one. The also part of the company Avaya Labs, which have emerged from the Bell Laboratories, working mainly in their research and development work in the field of communication technologies. Avaya claims to have 5,600 patents in his possession or logged.

History

Spin-off from Lucent Technologies

On 2 October 2000, the unified communications and call center division of Lucent Technologies was spun off. Henry Schacht was Chairman of the Board. First CEO was Don Peterson, who was CFO at Lucent before. Avaya received the stock symbol AV and began trading at $ 20 per share. Prior to this spin-off, the company was one of more than a century to Western Electric and AT & T.

Purchase of Tenovis

In November 2004, the German telecommunications company Tenovis was taken with 5,400 employees for 635 million U.S. dollars. Tenovis has been significantly redesigned to integrate into the Avaya Group, including by setting up subsidiaries, were transferred to the business areas such as installation and service, spinning off of assets and through further staff reductions. Mid-2006 had 4,500 employees Avaya Europe. Avaya employed in Germany in fiscal year 2007/2008 approximately 3,560 employees; Beginning of 2010 there were 2,900 employees.

Acquisition by investors

In 2006, Louis D' Ambrosio as CEO and President of Avaya; He joined in June 2008, stating health reasons back. On 26 October 2007, Avaya was acquired by investment firms Silver Lake Partners and Texas Pacific Group (TPG ), for 8.2 billion U.S. dollars or 17.50 dollars per share. The ordinary shares were taken from the Stock Exchange and since inception on 26 October 2007 they are no longer traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).

Purchase of Nortel's Enterprise division

On 14 September 2009, Avaya was announced as the winner of the sale of Nortel's Enterprise division. Avaya had won the contract for 900 million U.S. dollars. On 21 December 2009, Avaya and Nortel have officially completed the sale. Avaya had 21,000 employees worldwide so.

Renewed IPO

In June 2011, Avaya has applied its IPO with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. It plans to take as approximately one billion dollars.

Market position

Avaya is recognized by industry and technology experts as a world leader in the following areas:

• Unified Communications and Corporate Telephony
• Contact center
• Enterprise messaging
• Range audio conferencing
• Hardware Maintenance

Gartner places Avaya in the Leaders quadrant because of its comprehensive vision and the ways to implement this:

• Leaders Quadrant in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Corporate Telephony, worldwide, 2009
• Leaders Quadrant in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Contact Center Infrastructure, Worldwide, 2008

Products

• Communication solutions for small, medium and large businesses and government agencies ( PBXs, phones, IP Telephony, Unified Communications and Contact Center )
• Data network solutions for businesses and government agencies (Ethernet Switching, Wireless, Routing, Access Control, Management) Virtual Services Platform
• Ethernet Routing Switch (ERS )
• Secure Router 4134/2330
• WLAN 8100
• VPN gateway
• Identity Engines

Sponsoring activities

Avaya was one of the sponsors of the FIFA World Cup 2006 in Germany, and the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. For license as a sponsor of the World Cup 2006, the Group spent $ 40 million, an additional 60 million dollars for the provision of communications infrastructure.