Avaya Extends the Automated Campus to End the Network Waiting Game

SANTA CLARA, CA--(Marketwired - Apr 1, 2014) -

• Survey reveals that network complexities delay business system improvements by nearly a month, affect employee productivity, business analysis and sales efforts
• Fabric Connect reduces the network waiting game with a new application-first Wireless LAN offering that brings the Automated Campus to the wireless edge. 
• Fabric Connect powers InteropNet with 1/10 the resources of previous years

Network complexities cause significant delays in the ability of IT departments to improve systems and negatively affect an overwhelming majority of businesses today according to a recent Avaya survey. To help end this network waiting game, Avaya has dramatically simplified network infrastructures with Fabric Connect technology driving the Automated Campus, which now extends to the wireless edge with the introduction of a new series of Wireless LAN solutions.

Supporting the next generation Wi-Fi standard (802.11ac), the Wireless LAN 9100 Series can further reduce end user waiting time by offering faster gigabit Wi-Fi throughput. The WLAN 9100 Application Control feature recognizes over 1,000 of the most popular business and personal applications and allows administrators to create granular policies to block, restrict and/or prioritize specific applications so that business-critical applications come first.

The Avaya survey also showed that companies wait almost a month (27 days) -- most of the time on a maintenance window -- before they can make a significant improvement to a business system. At an average of 10 changes a year, businesses can wait up to nine months for improvements that can help their company grow, increase employee and sales productivity and improve business analysis. Bottom line, network complexity increases wait time; wait time affects margins and decreases the ability of IT to provide the company with a competitive edge.

Avaya's networking portfolio can eliminate the need for maintenance windows required by the majority of traditional networks underlying businesses today. Avaya Fabric Connect automatically configures the distribution and core switches, so IT personnel need only configure edge devices. Avaya's Fabric Connect now extends to the new Wireless LAN 9100 series for zero-touch provisioning of access points and edge-only provisioning of services. IT departments save hours if not days and reduce the potential for errors that cause outages that impact business agility, revenues, and IT professionals' careers.