Avaya Expands Video Offerings to Deliver Intelligent Huddle Room Experiences

Video offerings from Avaya Holdings Corp’s stable will now come with a number of enhancements. These enhancements promise to transform the group meeting room experience and business video economics. The NYSE-listed company is a global leader in solutions to enhance and simplify communications and collaboration.

It has actually expanded its comprehensive video collaboration solutions portfolio with a range of new offerings designed to meet contemporary requirements for smaller meeting spaces, which include new Avaya IX Huddle Cameras. They deliver high-quality video at prices that match small meeting space budgets, and the Avaya IX Collaboration Unit, which is an open “all-in-one” next-generation collaboration solution.

Besides, Avaya has also made it possible for businesses to move their group conferencing rooms into the cloud with a comprehensive monthly subscription model.  

There is a growing business need to add collaboration technology to small meeting spaces, often called huddle rooms. And Avaya is trying to meet that need by making the overall experience more intelligent. Going by Frost and Sullivan estimates, there are over 32 million of these huddle rooms in offices worldwide. And out of them only a very small percentage are equipped with video collaboration technology. If Frost and Sullivan report is anything to go by, huddle room meetings will surge from 12 percent to 70 percent of all video conferencing by 2023.

Ironically, these spaces had hardly received any attention from business IT teams in the past. However, business dynamics are changing and huddle room technology has now emerged as a new focus area for businesses.

Chris McGugan, Avaya SVP, Solutions & Technology, said that Avaya is moving the huddle room experience beyond the status quo with customer-led solutions that seamlessly integrate with their existing UC and video infrastructures. Customers also want to use their favourite cloud-based collaboration applications and their next-generation open architecture enables this. And in the process, they get much richer user experience. They also get a plug and play simplicity, and the ability to leverage existing investments. This approach combined with the flexibility of a subscription model will accelerate the extension of video collaboration to all areas of an organization and within business verticals, he said.

Pierfrancesco Coluzzi, CEO of VIDEOGECOM, said that VIDEOGECOM is very excited to be able to offer Avaya’s next generation huddle room solutions to our customers. In their experience, it is by far the easiest huddle room solution to set-up and use. It is a cloud-centric world and the Avaya IX Collaboration Unit takes full advantage of all the cloud has to offer for businesses, he said.