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Avaya Inc. is a telecommunications company which specialises in VoIP, Contact center and mobile voice and data technology. Formerly the Network Systems unit of Lucent Technologies, it was spun off on October 2, 2000. It has approximately 20,000 employees as of 2006.
The Avaya global headquarters is located in Basking Ridge, New Jersey. Donald K. Peterson is the Chairman and CEO.
Avaya is the official Converged Communication Provider for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. It also provided the communications networks for the 2002 FIFA World Cup and the FIFA Women's World Cup in 2003.
Western Electric roots
Since Avaya is a company spun off from Lucent Technologies, itself a spinoff of AT&T, Avaya continues to manufacture well-known telephone models for businesses that were made popular in the hey day of the Bell System. Models made to this day by Avaya include the 2554 wall phone, and the 2500 series desk phone, both popular Western Electric models.
Avaya telephone production at the Shreveport Works, a former Western Electric plant, ceased in 2001. All of Avaya's telephones are made outside the U.S..
Before the Avaya name came about, what was Avaya with post-breakup AT&T was a part of AT&T Network Systems.
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