Yesterday, Avaya announced that it has acquired video conferencing company RADVISION for $230 million. The acquisition is expected to close within 90 days.
Kevin Kennedy, President and CEO of Avaya was quoted as saying, “…We believe this transaction will leverage a highly-skilled, incredibly talented and experienced workforce ready to deliver video to enterprise customers. With this acquisition we will seek to extend videoconferencing to any device, anytime, anywhere, making it as easy as a phone call…”
Avaya is a leading global provider of next-generation business collaboration and communications solutions, providing unified communications, real-time video collaboration, contact center, networking and related services to companies of all sizes around the world.
RADVISION, founded in 1992 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, is a leading provider of videoconferencing and telepresence technologies over IP and wireless networks. Its enterprise video infrastructure will be integrated with Avaya’s award winning Avaya Aura® Unified Communications (UC) platform to create a dynamic solution that will facilitate the use of video collaboration for Avaya’s business to business and business to customer users.
“The strategic merger will now combine two industry leaders with a shared passion and vision for creating high-performance unified communications solutions,” said RADVISION Chief Executive Officer Boaz Raviv.
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