The Konftel 300 Solution Now Rated “Avaya Compliant”

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The Konftel 300 Solution Now Rated “Avaya Compliant”

- The Konftel 300 application is compatible with key Avaya IP office, Communication Manager and Tenovis I5 and 55 solutions
- Helps businesses to hold phone meetings with crystal clear sound. Besides decreasing the carbon dioxide emissions, audio conferencing also reduces travel costs and saves time.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 17 June 2008 Umeå, Sweden

Konftel AB, Europe’s leading manufacturer of conference phones, today announced that its Konftel 300 is compliant with IP office, Communication Manager and Tenovis I5 and 55 solutions from Avaya, a leading global provider of business communications applications, systems and services.

The Konftel 300 helps businesses to hold phone meetings with crystal clear sound. By replacing some business meetings with phone meetings the carbon dioxide emissions decreases and reduces travel costs and saves time as well. The application now is compliance-tested by Avaya for compatibility with: IP office, Communication Manager and Tenovis I5 and 55.

"Avaya is one of the leading brands for communication. This strategic membership in the DevConnect program will help us build our business by serving customers more efficiently and effectively,” says Peter Renkel, CEO at Konftel AB. “The compliance-test means that the market can confidently purchase the Konftel 300, knowing they will function optimally with their Avaya systems.”

Konftel AB is a member of the Avaya DevConnect program — an initiative to develop, market and sell innovative third-party products that interoperate with Avaya technology and extend the value of a company’s investment in its network.

As a Gold member of the program, Konftel AB is eligible to submit products for compatibility testing by the Avaya Solution Interoperability and Test Lab in Lincroft, N.J. There, a team of Avaya engineers develops a comprehensive test plan for each application to verify whether it is Avaya compliant. Doing so ensures businesses can confidently add best-in-class capabilities to their network without having to replace their existing infrastructure — speeding deployment of new applications and reducing both network complexity and implementation costs.

“By offering compliance testing to the many innovative companies like Konftel who are members of our DevConnect program, Avaya promotes fully interoperable solutions that help businesses unleash powerful new possibilities,” said Eric Rossman, Vice President, Developer Relations and Technical Alliances, Avaya. “They are able to use Intelligent Communications to connect employees and customers to information from wherever they are, over whatever device they have available – getting more out of their multivendor network and delivering new value to their bottom line.”

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About Avaya
Avaya delivers Intelligent Communications solutions that help companies transform their businesses to achieve marketplace advantage. More than 1 million businesses worldwide, including more than 90 percent of the FORTUNE 500®, use Avaya solutions for IP Telephony, Unified Communications, Contact Centers and Communications-Enabled Business Processes. Avaya Global Services provides comprehensive service and support for companies, small to large. For more information visit the Avaya Web site: http://www.avaya.com. For more information on the Avaya DevConnect program, visit www.avaya.com/devconnect.

About Konftel AB
Konftel was started in 1988 and is Europe’s leading manufacturer of conference phones. We develop and sell products and technology for phone meetings based on cutting-edge expertise in acoustics and digital signal processing. All our conference phones are equipped with the patented OmniSound® technology, providing crystal-clear sound. The products are sold globally under the Konftel brand. Headquarters are located in Umeå, Sweden, with local offices in Chicago and Bangalore. Read more about Konftel on www.konftel.com.