International. NVT Phybridge, Inc., a leader in Ethernet technology and long-range power that enables flawless IP connections over longer distances, today announces that it has received the 2017 Avaya DevConnect Select Product Program Excellence Award. Avaya, a leading global provider of communications software for businesses, systems and services, honored NVT Phybridge for excellence in its solutions and commitment to its sales channels and customers.
"Avaya's commitment to customers extends to our community of Technology Partners as well. For many, the value the Avaya ecosystem brings often exceeds their expectations and offers greater business benefits than they ever imagined. With these DevConnect Product Program Excellence Awards, we wanted to formally recognize those companies that demonstrated leadership in innovation and an unwavering commitment to helping our mutual customers achieve new successes in their respective business operations," Eric Rossman, Vice President, Developer Relations, Avaya.
The selection criteria for the SPP Excellence Award measure significant and consistent contributions to Avaya's business through various initiatives. These include the successful partnership with Avaya's sales teams and channels around the world; solution-specific capabilities and features of excellence; innovation and creativity to address business challenges; services to build strong customer relationships and Commitment to promoting and growing Avaya as a Select Product Program partner.
NVT Phybridge was recognized for its portfolio of PoLRE (Power over Long Reach Ethernet) manageable and unmanaged IP enabler solutions, which provide Avaya customers with seamless, seamless migration paths to IP, enabling them to build business growth through current and future technology investments. "NVT Phybridge's PoLRE solution is helping us accelerate the migration of our TDM customer base to IP-based unified communications platforms in a fast, easy and cost-effective manner. Without costly LAN infrastructure upgrades, we can deploy Avaya IP phones in a fraction of the time, minimizing disruption to our customers' operations," Andrew Bale, VP Sales, JT Global.
PoLRE is the only Select Product Program offering that offers Avaya TDM customers a certified, plug-and-play solution that uses UTP/CAT3 cabling from an established pair to deliver maximum power PoE of up to 1,200 feet (365m). That means complete IP connectivity for the entire network, devices, and applications four times beyond the limits of standard Ethernet leveraging existing cabling infrastructure. "It's our business to eliminate the expense, clutter, complexity and risks that are inevitable with rewiring to support IP where it's needed most. The PoLRE solution is vitally important in helping Avaya customers protect their infrastructure investments and achieve their IP promotion goals," added Steven Fair, EVP, NVT Phybridge.
With an established global presence, NVT Phybridge is an IP enablement partner ideal for serving Avaya's huge global TDM customer base. "We are excited to partner closely with Avaya in Latin America. Our approach to enabling a single UTP pair to deliver full PoE and IP for longer distances is facilitating a positive impact to Avaya TDM's many customers located throughout our region," says Antonio Perez, Sales Director for Latin America and the Caribbean at NVT Phybridge. NVT Phybridge's PoLRE is a simple yet strategic way to help customers migrate from the old analogue today to tomorrow's new IP. With NVT Phybridge, migrating to IP is really easy."
