When one company agrees to buy another company, there would some announcement immediately to the media with some dates of completion of the acquisition. The sell off of Avaya has been in the news for more than 6 months. The reality: there is no deal on the table and bankruptcy is the only option left for Avaya. KK is incompetent and cannot negotiate a deal. He turned down Oracle acquisition few years ago. Bankruptcy might be a better option for Avaya than splitting the company and selling off the CC. If they split the company and the UC part files for bankruptcy as reported in the news, they will never survive by just being in voice business, I don't know of a company today that sells only telephony. They would be competing with all the free telephony software offered out of India. I am not sure how the CC part alone can survive either without the core CM. All the Avaya CC technology is proprietary and cannot integrate with Cisco UC for example. What a F*g mess.
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This is too complicated, splitting the company will never work. Bankruptcy is the best option to restructure the debt, restructure the company, and come out of it as clean as possible. Fresh start, but a tough one after bankruptcy, where the court will dictate their daily life. This seem to be the only solution left. It is amazing that nobody is interested in Avaya and their customer base, their financials must really look ugly behind the scene.
In the CC world AVAYA has several CC stacks the largest and most interesting is Elite. Elite is a set of C\C++ modules compiled along with other switch modules. So in the enterprise market the CC assets are very depended on the UC. This leads me to ask the question who do you split this business from both a customer ownership and technology perspective. The new CC business would have to strike an OEM relationship with the UC company. That would mean the current CC revenues are currently over stated (because the UC company will want a piece of the revenues).
I know people will try to pivot to the new platform Oceania, but that platform has limited traction and its current release is depended on adjunct route to work. The expense to revenue ratio of all snappin products is very very poor. So it will not be a viable option to split the company in the short term. The bonds will come due before this solution will take hold. AVAYA should abandon this effort and cut its expenses in traditional product lines to make it more attractive to a new set of private equity post bankruptcy.
Deal done, they are going to announce by Monday next week.
They would fire a very large number of worthless employees in CC which would enable it to carry on profitably, There is so much dead wood at Avaya, it's no wonder they're going under. Bankruptcy is not the ONLY answer, but improving efficiency will be critical going forward.
Avaya CC will be no different than what Genesis is doing today. genesis has a decent market share but unlike Avaya and Cisco, the dominants in the market. Splitting the company if it does happen, will be the end of Avaya. Again, I don't see this is happening, bankruptcy is the only choice left. TPG lost money with their acquisition of Avaya, why would another private equity do the same mistake!
SIP is not a very limiting standard and allows a great deal of variation in how things are done. Just because one network element speaks SIP doesn't mean that it will be able to interwork to any significant degree with other SIP network elements. If Avaya's CC is designed to work with Aura it would be reasonable to expect that it uses SIP in a way that other servers will not expect.
Whomever posted this original thread is wrong and either doesn't understand the technology of his/her company, or is a competitor. Avaya CC is based on SIP, an open protocol. Cisco is proprietary, and if Cisco CC cannot interop with SIP, we'll then, probably shouldn't have bought a Cisco CC.
I'm afraid the person who posted the original message is misinformed!!
deal is confirmed and done. Split, layoffs on the way. stay tuned.