The acquisition of Nortel's Enterprise division has expanded portfolio with Avaya's own networking equipment such as routers and switches. Thus the communications specialist urges the core network giant Cisco. The distributor of Avaya and Nortel to grow together in a common partner program. With the acquisition of Nortel's Enterprise division is Avaya from specialists to collaboration provider. With the integrated networking products from Nortel's below the roof must be no longer the Avaya network components from other manufacturers in its solutions. "The networking solutions from Nortel, we are expanding our product range dramatically. That gives us at the end customer very different ways, "says Robert Schmitz, head of the Channel Group in Germany, Avaya, told Computer Reseller News.

With the acquisition of Nortel's Enterprise Solutions a year ago, Avaya has secured approximately $ 900,000,000 of one of the fillets from the insolvent Canadian telecommunications giant. In the U.S. manufacturer's own portfolio to include a wide range of routers, switches, wireless and access control solutions, has expanded - a market in which Avaya now competes directly with Cisco. In Avaya's core business makes with solutions for business communications, conversely, however, Cisco is increasingly broad. According to figures from the U.S. market research firm Dell'Oro Avaya came in the first quarter of 2010 was on a market share of 25 percent, Cisco with 22 percent just behind it.