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The communications firm, which bought Nortel Enterprise Solutions in September 2009, said on Tuesday that some Nortel products would be discontinued, while some would replace existing Avaya products. Over time, Nortel's existing customers are to be migrated onto Avaya's SIP-based Aura platform, Avaya said.

In six months' time, Nortel Dialer, the 5300 model application server and the 'm' version of the CS1K communications server will no longer be made or sold. The Nortel CC7 contact-centre platform will replace Avaya's Contact Centre Express. All of the four products that are to be discontinued will continue to be supported by Avaya for the next six years.

Nortel's Agile Communication Environment (ACE) unified communications software will be "glued into Aura", Baratz said. He also indicated that Nortel's security and Ethernet products would see further investment from Avaya and deeper integration into Avaya's unified communications and contact-centre products. Nortel went bankrupt at the start of 2009, prompting a sell-off of its various units.:source:zdnet: