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Leading value added distributor, FVC signed a partnership agreement with Esna Technologies (Esnatech) to deliver cloud-enabled unified communications to enterprises across the MENA region. FVC will offer Esnatech’s award-winning Office-LinX unified communications software as part of its solutions portfolio. K.S. Parag, Managing Director at FVC, said “This agreement with Esnatech is an exciting new addition to our portfolio and fits in with our commitment to bring emerging technologies to the region.Read More…

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Adoption of Unified Communications technology is reaching critical mass, corroborated by a report from In-Stat earlier this year that predicted small office spending on IP telephony would grow by 83 per cent in 2011. The trend is moving away from premises-based Unified Communications towards technology hosted in the Cloud, as consumers become aware of the benefits and the technology becomes more accessible, affordable and scalable. According to research conducted by Frost & Sullivan last year, the Unified Communications (UC) market in the Middle East is expected to reach US$235 million by 2014. Read More…

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Optimus Academy, the channel enablement division of Optimus Technology and Telecommunications, held its first Avaya Aura Unified Communications implementation training for its channel partners in Dubai. This training program, an initiative of Optimus Academy along with Global Knowledge – the worldwide leader in IT and business skills training, is in line with the Avaya Certified Implementation Specialist (ACIS) certification and will enable partners to deploy and configure IP telephony solutions across the different Avaya Enterprise IP Telephony platforms.Read More…

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Polycom, a global provider of unified communications (UC), has been named the 2011 Microsoft Unified Communications Innovation Partner of the Year Award, for the company’s showing in delivering innovations that provide powerful, enterprise-grade UC and visual collaboration solutions for customers. Polycom is being honored for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology. Polycom will be officially honored at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) 2011 next month during the Vision keynote and at the WPC 2011 Award Winners Executive Luncheon.Read More…

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Aastra, the leading Enterprise Communication technology solution provider today announced the launch of their training services to offer training and certification to its channel partners as well as end-customers in the Middle East region. Aastra’s enterprise communication solutions include IP Telephony, Unified Communications, Contact Centers and Video Conferencing which it inherited from acquisition of Ericsson’s global Enterprise business back in 2008. Aastra, is now working towards expanding the enterprise products portfolio and develop the channel partner program to a new level.

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Avaya as part of a strategic global agreement with HP is adding elements of Avaya’s Unified Communications and Contact Center products to the HP Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC&C) services portfolio for enterprises. Thereby, offering customers an increase in the agility of their existing communication architectures and realize the aspiration of unified communications for multi-vendor interoperability and ultimately save organizational costs.Read More…