Avaya Secures Mobile Collaboration and Bring Your Own Device for Enterprises

 

Avaya Secures Mobile Collaboration and Bring Your Own Device for Enterprises  

  

·   Avaya Identity Engines 8.0 delivers unified wired and wireless network access to employees, guests and their devices without compromising enterprise security

·   Avaya addresses the challenges of BYOD with a complete solution for customers that spans applications, infrastructure and professional services

 

LAS VEGAS (May 8, 2012) – Enhancements to the Avaya Networking portfolio will enable enterprises to maintain greater security and control of their networks as they adopt BYOD initiatives. Avaya Identity Engines 8.0, announced today at Interop Las Vegas, makes it simple and cost effective for organizations to provide employees and guests with secure, controlled access to wired and wireless networks from their personal devices.

 

Enterprises need to know who is accessing their network and how—whether it is with laptops, desktop computers, smartphones or iPad devices. Avaya Identity Engines 8.0 introduces two significant new capabilities that help eliminate the security risks of personal devices on a corporate network and enable enterprises to grant secure, flexible network access to individual users and their devices:

 

·         Ignition Access Portal delivers a unified access experience for both wired and wireless users. It simplifies the administration of BYOD with auto-registration and device fingerprinting capabilities, providing IT staff with detailed visibility into the type and profile of devices on the network and allowing them to act accordingly. Access Portal can be customized and deployed throughout the network and across geographical locations based on the needs of the enterprise.

 

·         Ignition CASE Client automates the configuration of devices for secure network access. It is a dissolvable client that helps ensure that devices meet specific security requirements before being allowed onto the network, and configures them without revealing the necessary certificates or shared keys to users. This is particularly useful when business partners with unmanaged laptops need secure but limited access to network resources, for example—the laptops can be configured automatically in seconds and the CASE client disappears from the user’s equipment.

 

These new capabilities build on Avaya Identity Engines’ existing security and policy features to deliver a cost-effective way for organizations to manage identity and network access for employees, guests and an ever-growing assortment of devices in the enterprise.

 

Avaya Identity Engines is part of Avaya Mobile Collaboration for Enterprise, an integrated solution for mobile workforces designed to provide business people with choices for where and how they can work. This solution makes applications and mobile devices work together securely, reliably and cost-effectively and provides new ways to leverage personal devices in the workplace using Avaya’s collaboration applications, unified communications infrastructure, networking technologies, and professional services.

 

This announcement highlights Avaya’s commitment to bringing The Power of We™ to every Avaya customer to help drive faster collaboration, smarter decisions and better business results.

 

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“Given the funding cuts in education, it’s simply impossible to provide devices to every student. We are putting together a BYOD initiative that will solve this problem by allowing students to use their own personal devices to gain access to educational resources. Network security is extremely important to us and cannot be overlooked. Avaya Identity Engines’ ability to provide detailed visibility into the devices students will use to access the network will enable us to restrict the level of access as required. We will be able to retain security and control of our network at all times, and students will get to use the devices they want while they learn.”

—Michael Papoulias, computer and telecommunication networks coordinator, Lester B. Pearson School Board

 

“Physicians and healthcare staff are increasingly bringing personal devices—from smartphones, to tablets, and notebooks—into work and requiring access to patient records. Hence they need to be provisioned onto the network and integrated into clinical workflows. The challenge is how to ensure secure, seamless connectivity across a diverse mix of devices. Avaya Identity Engines allows us to tailor the level of network access based on both the user and device, minimizing the risk of security breaches and ensuring confidentiality of patient data. A physician can be given unrestricted network access when connecting using a hospital-owned PC, and restricted access when connecting using their personal Apple iPad.”

—Mark Starry, chief technology officer, Concord Hospital

 

“IT consumerization is creating a real headache for companies around the globe. Unfortunately BYOD has incorrectly become synonymous with mobile device management, which is only one part of the solution. Once a device has been on boarded, then what? How does one manage security, management, user experience, network flows? Avaya is the company that is stepping in with a true, holistic BYOD proposal that covers all the pieces.”

Zeus Kerravala, principal analyst, ZK Research

 

Additional Resources

·   Learn more about Avaya Identity Engines

·   Learn about Avaya Mobile Collaboration for Enterprise

 

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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.

 

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Avaya Highlights Avaya VENA Customer Momentum at Interop Las Vegas 2012

 

·   Thousands of customers worldwide have deployed networks with Avaya VENA products and technologies

·   Oslo University Hospital, Sparebanken Vest, Leeds Metropolitan University, Schiphol Airport and Concord Hospital benefit from Avaya VENA deployments

 

LAS VEGAS (May 8, 2012) – Avaya today announced at Interop Las Vegas 2012 a number of  new customer deployments from across the globe that showcase the benefits of Avaya's Virtual Enterprise Network Architecture (VENA) and its growing adoption by enterprises. Worldwide, thousands of customers have deployed key components of Avaya VENA in their networks.

 

Avaya VENA is an enterprise-wide virtualization solution that simplifies the design and management of networks, streamlines the deployment of cloud-based services and improves the delivery of always-on content.

 

Today’s enterprise networks are evolving dramatically, growing in scale and becoming increasingly complex. Traditional networks do not provide the flexibility, resiliency or performance that customers require for critical business applications, cloud networks and the glut of new, high-bandwidth devices. Avaya VENA eliminates these traditional constraints to make networks more flexible, reliable and resilient.

 

Avaya VENA Enterprise Fabric

Based on the IEEE 802.1aq Shortest Path Bridging standard, Avaya VENA’s Enterprise Fabric simplifies the provisioning of services and the configuration of networks. It enables services to be added up to 25 times[1] more quickly with less risk, since changes only need to be made to the edge of the network rather than to every device and link.

 

·         Avaya’s Enterprise Fabric allows Sparebanken Vest, one of the three largest Norwegian banks, and one of the oldest, to more quickly plan and implement upgrades and changes to the advanced cloud-based network that supports its 68 locations.

·         It facilitates the adoption of technology-enhanced learning initiatives at Leeds Metropolitan University’s, and has contributed to a 200-fold improvement in network failover time that ensures that students and faculty are not impacted during planned or unplanned transitions.

·         Oslo University Hospital leveraged Enterprise Fabric to create a shared, virtualized network that supports different user groups, projects and applications for three merged hospitals, and maintains a high level of availability for critical care services at all times.

 

Avaya VENA Switch Clustering

Avaya’s Switch Clustering technology virtualizes the network core to protect against failures, delivering true end-to-end reliability and active resiliency for always-on access.

 

·         Switch Clustering provides Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport with a rock-solid network for a critical new luggage handling system that handles over 8,000 bags per hour and 70 million pieces of luggage per year.

·         It also enables Concord Hospital to perform in-service maintenance and software upgrades in their network core while maintaining the highest levels of network availability; something that is critical in a paperless hospital environment.

 

This announcement highlights Avaya’s commitment to bringing The Power of We™ to every Avaya customer to help drive faster collaboration, smarter decisions and better business results.

 

Quotes

“Avaya VENA allows us to upgrade our existing set-up by building a very advanced and future-proofed cloud-based network. It gives us the flexibility and reliability we are looking for but in a simple, straightforward way. Avaya’s genuine open standards approach gives us confidence that we are protecting our existing investment and still future-proofing our network to easily accommodate future innovations.”

Harald Nordås, network manager, Sparebanken Vest

 

“High availability is a critical requirement for our network. The doctors here make life and death decisions every day and we can’t afford any downtime. Hospitals are inherently risk-averse and are rarely early adopters, but we were struck by the benefits that Avaya VENA Enterprise Fabric implementation of Shortest Path Bridging could provide our network. We knew the risks of undertaking this project, but found Avaya to be the ideal partner to help us succeed. As soon as the technology was available, we signed up.”

Espen Holthe, network engineer, Sykehuspartner IKT

 

“In designing for the future, Leeds Metropolitan did not feel bound to the past, and despite a long and successful history with Avaya Networking products, we undertook a rigorous analysis to find the solution that best matched our strategic goals. After conducting a comprehensive review, we determined that by using the Avaya VENA Enterprise Fabric capability to empower our network, we can develop new solutions to the challenges and demands of delivering cutting-edge learning services. We now find ourselves in the pleasantly refreshing position of being able to consistently say ‘yes we can’.”

Phil Taylor, Communications Consultant, Leeds Metropolitan University

 

“Enterprises are choosing Avaya VENA to build the advanced networks they need to support critical, next-generation business applications. And they are doing so because it delivers networks that are less complex, more efficient and better at handling today’s real-time application traffic. Avaya VENA eliminates the constraints of traditional enterprise networks to make them more flexible, reliable and resilient—so that businesses can spend less time managing their network and more time improving the experience of their customers.”

Marc Randall, senior vice president and general manager, Avaya

 

Additional Resources

·   Learn more about Avaya VENA

·   Read about the deployments at Sparebanken Vest, Leeds Metropolitan University, Oslo University Hospital, Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport and Concord Hospital

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Avaya, Avaya VENA, SPB, shortest path bridging, virtualization, Ethernet fabric, switch clustering, Oslo University Hospital, Sparebanken Vest, Leeds Metropolitan University, Schiphol Airport, Concord Hospital

 

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.

 

 

 

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