Avaya Quick Edition

Avaya Quick Edition is an innovative peer-to-peer phone system for locations with 20 users or less. It is simple to set-up and use, and is ideal for small businesses and small branch offices requiring an intelligent communications solution that is easy to support and maintain.

Avaya's Quick Edition is a plug-and-play solution with system intelligence based in each Quick Edition IP phone. No advanced installation skills are required and the need for a separate server or processor unit is eliminated. All that's required is a standard 10/100Mbps switched Local Area Network (LAN).

Avaya's Quick Edition is a professional phone system tailored to the needs of small businesses supporting the most commonly used telephony applications including voicemail, conferencing and auto-attendant. The system is based on the fast emerging Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) standard.

Avaya's Quick Edition phones support connection to SIP trunks. This gives small businesses the potential to reduce their telephony costs by connecting to an Avaya-validated SIP service provider. Enterprise branch offices can connect via SIP trunks to a central site with an Avaya SIP Enablement Services (SES) environment. In either case, traditional analogue trunk connections can also be made using the optional Quick Edition G11 4-port PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) Gateway.

Installation and set-up is simple. Avaya's Quick Edition phones are plugged directly into the LAN and once powered, automatically "discover" each other and prompt for network and user name. Once entered, the phones are fully operational in a matter of minutes.

As an office grows, new employees can be added to the system by simply adding a new phone to the network. When deployed in small offices with 20 phones or less, Quick Edition does not require any QoS (Quality of Service) configuration or formal network assessment.

The distributed nature of peer-to-peer technology provides business continuity advantages by eliminating a single point of telephony failure. Avaya Quick Edition phones also automatically back-up one another's voice mail.

For MTV Telecom Avaya resellers, Quick Edition provides incremental revenue potential by addressing the sub-20 user market with low operating overheads, and minimal capital expenses. In addition to the sales of Quick Edition phones and gateways, there are multiple revenue opportunities in providing a total solution to small offices, including bundled voice and data services, and leasing.