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Avaya CTO: 'We Scale Much Better' Than Microsoft Skype For Business
Mark Haranas
How does Avaya's Aura Platform stack up against Microsoft's Skype for Business, formerly Lync?
Versus Microsoft, it's fair to say that when you compare apples to apples for large-scale enterprise communications, we still have a significant feature and scale advantage, and better deployability, resiliency, security -- we scale much better than Lync. I don't think there is too much argument about that.
So clearly, Lync is a factor, we recognize it, customers have [it] deployed. Our view on Lync is to not tell customers not to use Lync, it's to integrate Lync better into their Avaya environment. We can make international video calls high-quality with Lync. You can use Lync to trigger a call to your customer, but we will make that call quality better because it will run on the Avaya infrastructure.