Avaya has announced a 0% finance offer for European mid-size clients as it readies for its battle with unified comms heavyweights Cisco, Nortel and Microsoft. Clients in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland will be able to lease equipment and pay for services over a three-year period with no interest or starting fees. The offer includes all maintenance and upgrades.

Avaya is the former business services unit of Lucent and recently went private as part of an $8.5 billion private equity buyout. The arrival of Microsoft as a significant player in the unified communications space has spurred a rash of offerings, product launches (and relaunches!) and alliances as vendors and service providers scramble to be part of the next big thing in the transition to fully real time networks.

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Avaya Reaches Out To Mid-Market With 0% Financing Release [1]

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