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| Extreme Networks and Avaya Go Green with New Telephony Solution Extreme Networks and Avaya announce that its combined Go Green IP telephony solution is set to reduce UK businesses carbon footprint through dramatically reducing electricity usage of its phones, with energy savings between 50 and 75 percent compared to the current solution. In addition, for the second year, Extreme Networks scooped the Technology Partner award at Avaya's yearly EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) BusinessPartner Conference recently held in Paris. The company was recognised with this award for its advanced data equipment and business performance throughout 2007. The new Go Green solution-built around Extreme Networks' ExtremeXOS Universal Port Automation technology and Avaya's Power over Ethernet efficient Gigabit Ethernet Deskphones- powers down phones when not in use, offering the potential for significant cost and environmental savings. The Go Green solution is easy to manage and provides the speeds required by today's bandwidth intensive users. Once the edge policies have been created and the power saving criteria chosen, the ExtremeXOS Universal Port Automation powers off the IP handsets outside of these time boundaries, resulting in power savings on both the switch ports and the phones themselves. For a typical company with 200 non-essential phones that are powered down outside of normal office hours by the Go Green solution between 17:00 each evening and restarting at 09:00 each working morning, there can be a 75 percent reduction in costs associated with running network connected IP phones. The Extreme Networks and Avaya alliance was formed in 2003 to offer secure and best-of-breed, converged network solutions for enterprises to optimise voice, data and video applications on an easily managed robust infrastructure. The relationship consists of providing jointly developed product and technology solutions as well as Avaya single point of accountability for complete end-to-end networks. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Networking News :: home page |