Avaya GlobalConnect certified as Juniper’s J-Partner Elite

Recognition embarks significant knowledge transfer and certifications

New Delhi, August 29, 2008: Avaya GlobalConnect, one of India’s leading business communications solutions provider has announced that it has been accredited with Juniper’s J-Partner Elite - the highest partner certification & solution specialization tier for Juniper Networks Inc. Avaya GlobalConnect has demonstrated strong competencies in a broad range of Juniper products and technologies and this reinforces Avaya’s consistent enhancement to Juniper’s business in India.

This is the highest level of partner accreditation in the Juniper partner framework. This recognition represents Avaya’s significant technical knowledge transfer and certifications on Juniper routing, switching, security, application acceleration products and solutions. Avaya’s continued support has helped enhance sales and marketing programs which directly benefit the customer in terms of solution designing and optimization and hence better utilization of investments. This also signifies a robust post sales support to the end customer provided by Avaya GlobalConnect.

“This is a great opportunity for us. Together, we will be able to sustain the mantra of customer responsiveness for our customers. Juniper Networks is known for their high performance networks and their products will enhance our product portfolio. Specialization helps capture new opportunities and this recognition will enable us to gain access to one of the broadest portfolios of networking and security solutions available today,” said Shomil Pant, Marketing Manager – Data & IIS, Avaya GlobalConnect.

In India, Avaya GlobalConnect have taken to active marketing of Juniper products and solutions for almost a year now. Although globally the relationship has been in existence for a long time, it has its roots in joint R&D and product development to substantiate each other’s business and technological needs.

"Avaya GlobalConnect's advanced expertise in business communications combined with Juniper Networks leadership in networking is an ideal combination to deliver high performance solutions to our customers," said Sanjay Jotshi, Enterprise Channels Director for Juniper Networks India. "This partnership demonstrates the power of the Juniper/Avaya combination in delivering high quality, highly secure voice solutions that deliver tangible business benefits."

About Avaya GlobalConnect

Avaya Global Connect is one of India’s leading business communications solutions provider. Its offerings range from converged voice, data and video networks to contact center solutions to unified messaging solutions, and customer services in order to provide best-in-class converged communications products and solutions. For more information about Avaya GlobalConnect, visit its Web site at www.avayaglobalconnect.com

About Juniper Networks

Juniper Networks is the leader in high-performance networking. Juniper offers innovative businesses a high-performance network infrastructure to help them create a responsive and trusted environment for accelerating the deployment of services and applications over a single network. For more information about Juniper Networks, visit its Web site at www.juniper.net