BASKING RIDGE, N.J. – Avaya, a global provider of business communications and collaboration systems and services, today announced that Canary Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to the goal of identifying cancer early, is facilitating research collaboration spanning disciplines and institutions with the help of Avaya Video Conferencing Solutions (AVCS).
Avaya videoconferencing endpoints at Canary Foundation and the Stanford University School of Medicine run off of Avaya Aura® unified communications core platform. The system’s High Definition (HD) video helps team members collaborate better by providing clear visuals of presenters and detailed research images and demonstrations.
The Avaya Video Conferencing Solution (AVCS) enables researchers at Canary Foundation and Canary Center at Stanford broaden their research network, reduce travel, expand real-time discussion, and facilitate visual presentations of cancer research results. Canary Foundation receives numerous grants that require monthly or bi-monthly reviews and inspections, and the Avaya Video Conferencing Solution (AVCS) allows members of the Canary Center at Stanford to meet grant compliance requirements efficiently and protect funding for critical research.
The organization is working with Avaya and others to enable additional researchers and institutions to participate in sessions using videoconferencing clients, desktop units and room-based systems from multiple videoconferencing system manufacturers.
The Avaya Video Conferencing Solution (AVCS) consists of a suite of software, hardware, user endpoints, collaboration applications and backend infrastructure. AVCS helps improve collaboration by providing HD video for a wide variety of uses across the enterprise, including traditional room systems as well as employees at their desk or away from the office. Avaya Video Conferencing Solution (AVCS) is designed with open standards and bandwidth efficiency and offers advanced administrative capabilities to optimize deployment, management and monitoring of voice and video applications.
Supporting Quotes:
"Canary Foundation has set 2015 as the date by when we aim to deliver on our vision of simple, effective early detection cancer tests. The faster and more cost-effective the means that we can share research with our broad-based team, the closer we get to our goal. Avaya's video solutions help Canary Foundation and our research team save precious time and money and provide the quality we need to see minute detail in video formats."
Don Listwin, founder, Canary Foundation
"We view a lot of imaging presentations in our research. It's important for the collaborators to be able to see the details while the presenter points out critical areas. The video quality is great and the system is very easy to use – even for a novice like me."
Sharon Pitteri, PHD, Canary Center at Stanford
BASKING RIDGE, N.J. - Avaya today announced it has acquired Sipera, a worldwide provider of Unified Communications (UC) solutions, including Session Border Control (SBC) functionality and a range of UC security applications. Sipera will become a fully integrated part of Avaya.
Sipera strengthens Avaya's UC portfolio with a set of fit-for-purpose, enterprise-class SBC capabilities for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) trunking that offers customers and channel partners flexibility, security and value. The company's open, standards-based solutions work in both Avaya and non-Avaya networks. Combined with Avaya Aura®, Sipera's solutions will provide customers with secure VoIP, SIP trunks, videoconferencing, cloud-based communications, instant messaging, and collaboration tools for workers in any location using any business or consumer device.
Sipera provides application-layer security that is intuitive, easy-to-manage and can lower the total cost of ownership of UC and Contact Center deployments. Security features include a patent-pending remote worker solution that helps deploy VPN-less solutions and advanced toll fraud protection.
Quotes:"Sipera's broad portfolio of open, enterprise-focused security technologies strongly align with our own Avaya Aura unified communications architecture. Together, we will help customers simplify deployment, management and maintenance of secure, multi-vendor UC and contact center environments while providing them with greater flexibility to support remote and mobile employees using the device that best suits their needs."
Dr. Alan Baratz, Senior Vice President and President, Global Communications Solutions, Avaya
"Integration of our solutions with Avaya Aura is a significant milestone in the evolution of unified communications. With the combined offerings, users enjoy rich, responsive communication experiences that span multiple channels, applications, devices and networks. These communications incorporate security and compliance features that ensure mission-critical information and resources are safeguarded. Together, our solutions simplify and streamline deployment and management of enterprise UC, improving communications flexibility, accelerating user adoption, and maximizing return on investment."
Jim Timmer, COO, Sipera
"Kelsey-Seybold Clinic is Houston's first and longest standing Accountable Care Organization. Kelsey-Seybold is home to more than 370 physicians providing more than 50 medical specialties throughout a network of 20 Houston-area clinics. Robust communication capabilities and security of our integrated voice and data solutions were key considerations in our selection of Sipera's technology with Avaya's contact center and unified communications solutions. We are excited that this relationship is becoming a permanent one."
Martin Littmann, Director – Information Technology, Kelsey-Seybold Clinic
