Westcon Lays Path For Resellers To Better Sell Avaya Equinox Meetings Online

As an Authorised Training Centre (ATC) for Avaya, Westcon is geared to enable and aid customers in meeting their goal for cloud-based conferencing.

 “With our in house Avaya skills as well as our technical competencies around the full suite of solutions, we are able to assist customers roll out Avaya Equinox Meetings Online as an addition to their existing Avaya environments,” states Rentia Booysen, Business Unit Manager Collaboration at Westcon Sub-Saharan Africa. “In addition, our ATC supports partners with all of their Avaya training needs. Ensuring that they are able to achieve and maintain Avaya partner requirements and competency levels.”

 Avaya’s Equinox Meetings Online is what is widely considered a premium conference room in the cloud. The solution enables teams, who are looking for a seamless in-person meeting experience from their video conferencing environment, to enjoy the same productivity goals they would from a person-to-person meeting.

 With features that support conference entries from a calendar invite or web browser, directly from the cloud, Avaya Equinox Meetings Online eliminates the need for in-house video expertise as well as negates the need for a capital/IT investment in onsite conferencing equipment.

 The product is available on a 30-day trial to customers looking to explore the benefits of cloud-based conferencing. With robust end-to-end encryption users are assured of a secure experience of their virtual meeting rooms that support up to 50 participants. Available via either a monthly subscription or annual contract, users can take advantage of unlimited use per room.

 “This is the perfect complimentary solution to existing and traditional video conferencing and collaboration environments, as it provides customers who have remote workers to still engage with each other. Knowing they can enjoy the benefits of a solution from a vendor, such as Avaya, who leads the way with innovative solutions,” adds Booysen.