Avaya Inc. is saving about 500 Nortel Networks’ Dallas-area jobs.
Avaya last year bought Nortel’s enterprise division and picked up 6,000 workers as a result. Now it turns out the privately held equipment maker also is taking on hundreds sales, customer support, finance and other employees in Texas. The decision brings to 700 the number of people Avaya employs in Texas.
Todd Abbott, senior vice president of sales at New Jersey-based Avaya, told the Dallas Morning News that the customers, technology, suppliers and workers Avaya acquired should help the company grow – so much so that an initial public offering could be in the works.