{"id":8825,"date":"2010-09-15T10:56:20","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T10:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/avaya_flare_launch_live_blog.html"},"modified":"2010-09-15T10:56:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T10:56:20","slug":"avaya-flare-launch-live-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/avaya-flare-launch-live-blog.html","title":{"rendered":"Avaya Flare Launch Live Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Avaya is launching a new interface called Flare. Rumors abound that the big deal here is it is a tablet. the reality is it is a UI which will run on tablets – including the one Avaya is launching today.<\/p>\n

This is not designed to be an iPad killer but a Polycom killer instead as the tablet will lower the cost of executive telepresence drastically.<\/p>\n

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Avaya CEO Steps onstage to talk about Avaya accomplishments and the importance of SIP.<\/p>\n

“Apple revolutionized consumer apps – our assault to revolutionize how business workers communicate and collaborate”<\/p>\n

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Here is the UI – just drag a contact to the center to connect with them. You can use Skype, Facebook, Twitter or the PBX – all under IT control. Avaya Aura is the backend UC platform – Flare is the UI – with full social networking integration and contextual communications – can see IM, video, e-mail and more – your entire history of of communications with all people in a conference can be seen in real time.<\/p>\n

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You must have Avaya Aura 6.0 to make it all work.<\/p>\n

There will be many SIP endpoints. There will be new room systems and a product line utilizing the Flare interface.<\/p>\n

There is a quickstart kit to get up and running soon. Avaya is taking orders for the device now.<\/p>\n

There is an integrated multimodal device – HD quality with half the bandwidth – a highly differentiated Flare experience – fun, compelling, productive and compelling.<\/p>\n

Web.Alive will also be network based and hosted – configurable – integrates avatars and video.<\/p>\n

High definition spatial quality – purchased from DiamondWare – years back – I have often praised the audio experience of of this technology.<\/p>\n

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Here is the actual Avaya tablet
11.5 inch screen, 3 USB ports, WiFi and Ethernet, battery powered.<\/p>\n

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This device was called Mojo while in development.<\/p>\n

Here is a live demo – you just use your finger to drag and drop users into conferences. IMHO – this is so much simpler than what we all have to do with our phones and it even is a huge improvement over CTI-based screen interfaces on a Windows PC.<\/p>\n

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TMC’s Paula Bernier covers the Avaya Flare story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As Kevin Kennedy was leaving I got to speak with him for a moment and he was very proud as he told me, “People didn’t expect this from us.” he is right. I remain impressed and had a chance to play with the tablet for a few minutes. It was quite snappy and as fast as an iPad for sure. There are feet on the back which allow it to be help up a in a few positions for easy viewing and typing.<\/p>\n

It is based on Android and does not support Flash yet but will when release 2.2 comes out.<\/p>\n

Also the tablet itself is called the A175 and it has two speakers, two microphones, a video camera and a street price of $1,500-$2,000.<\/p>\n

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Here is a shot with the on-screen keyboard<\/p>\n

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Here is a shot comparing the Avaya tablet to the iPad which is on top<\/p>\n

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After speaking with customers, they seem anxious to upgrade to Aura 6.0 and get these things into their organizations. The genius here is the “Kindle” concept – the device is just part of the strategy.<\/p>\n

BTW – I hear Avaya “pushed Intel really hard” to help develop many of the components in this unit and moreover there have been many patents applied for. It is an impressive tablet – a bit thicker than the iPad though (and less dense) and I am now going to digest what I saw today as I head back on the train and give you more analysis.<\/p>\n

One other point – it is 3G\/4G ready and seems carrier-agnostic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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