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| Originally Posted by MSYoung I started with the Bell System in 1968 and went from there to AT&T/Lucent/Avaya/Avaya Business Partner finally retiring from that industry last year. My job during most of that time was the installation, maintenance, modification, programming, and upgrading of phone systems with 500-20,000 phones. I have provided field support up to Avaya tier 3 level and have worked on 100's of switches. I said all that to counter your comment of "without the proper exposure to experiences |
Cool and such a huge network you can manage them, may i know that how many years you have been working with Avaya brands ? And also you seem to attend it's training before in order to know such deep stuffs. From the statement you stated, i really envy you coz things back in my place is different situation and it's entirely opposite. Pricing that counts.
So that's why Alcatel is so popular in Asia due to it's good pricing and it's features pack and maybe you can state the rough cost of your maintenance and i can estimate the price different. Coz i have some friends working in US as Alcatel 4400 System administrator and maintaining quite a huge one but users should not be any different from your size. That's the reason why Avaya is not very popular in my place and mostly used by US factories or companies like Intel.
Alcatel is quite good coz i have colleagues actually install Avaya systems coz i'm more towards certain brands and my colleagues often get feedbacks like yours. So i don't see anything that sounds fishy and maintaining people like you it's very expensive in my country so which is not appropriate.