Why Avaya Data is Better
When Nortel purchased Bay Networks in 1998, I’m sure the loyal followers of Cisco were drooling at the opportunity to put down yet another competitor in their already large and growing supporting base. Who would have figured that even with all the Networking startups that wanted a piece of this pie, the Nortel Data portfolio still lives on, and lives strong, despite facing the Cisco marketing machine for over 13 years.
Nortel Data has been riding the “reliability” factor that Nortel Networks is famous for, the voice products were extremely reliable, boasting the Five Nines. More importantly than that, is the market penetration that these products had especially in Canada. The Canadian government, one of the largest purchasers of the Nortel Data gear has helped drive this product line to where it is today, cheaper, as resilient and as reliable as its more expensive counterpart.
So Why Avaya Data?
1. Price
The Info-Tech research group has released a study in which it compares three common deployment scenarios and how they fare with the properly scaled products from Avaya and Cisco. IN ALL COUNTS, Campus WAN, Campus LAN and Energy performance. Avaya has up to a 54% savings in CAPEX (initial cost) vs. Cisco. These studies included CAPEX, ongoing maintenance and power consumption.
2. Greening the Enterprise
Energy Savings is almost 7X that of Cisco. Over the long term this represents significant cost savings.
3. No Overhead
You are paying for the Cisco Marketing Machine, don’t think you are escaping it. Avaya Data products are as reliable (lifetime warranty) as the Cisco gear, and considering the NMS (Network Management Software) can support any Networking products, you are getting an open standards solution, not proprietary. Avaya has carried these products forth in an effort to provide a complete Convergence solution and that is exactly what you are getting, without the flash, and cash.
BrantTel is actively promoting and selling the Avaya Data portfolio, it will remain in the toolbox for a long while longer. Thanks Bay Networks!
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