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Avaya Selects Zoom‘s AI-powered Collaboration Platform, Zoom Workplace,
to Integrate with Avaya’s Communication and Collaboration Suite to Help

Enterprises Reimagine Teamwork

Zoom and Avaya have announced a strategic
partnership designed to deliver enhanced
collaboration experiences to global
enterprises. As part of the partnership,
Avaya selected Zoom Workplace — Zoom’s
AI-powered collaboration platform that will
include meetings, team chat, scheduler,
whiteboard, spaces, and more — to
integrate with Avaya’s Communication &
Collaboration Suite, providing customers added value to enterprises through world- Workplace. Working together, Zoom and
with a new, streamlined way to manage class collaboration experiences within the Avaya’s partnership is designed to deliver a
their communications environments and Avaya platform.” “Zoom was built to offer joint solution that will provide an enhanced
workflows. Additionally, Avaya will offer a sophisticated yet easy-to-use product, collaboration user experience for Avaya
the integrated Zoom Workplace solution and as Zoom has expanded to include customers, including:
and will deliver an enhanced collaboration hundreds more products and features, as Interoperability between platforms
experience to its base, which boasts well as generative AI integrated throughout, and devices, enabling users to work in
some of the industry’s largest enterprise delivering an exceptional user experience Zoom Workplace while also leveraging
customers. is still core to who we are and something their existing investments in Avaya’s
Adding innovation value without disruption we continue to invest heavily in,” Eric S. Communication & Collaboration Suite
Avaya customers can gain additional Yuan, Zoom founder and CEO. “Customers solutions — Avaya Aura and Avaya
value from their existing investments in and partners like Avaya continue to look Enterprise Cloud — without disrupting
Avaya private cloud and premise-based to Zoom to power their collaboration investments in existing customizations,
solutions while also leveraging Zoom’s needs because of its speed of innovation workflows, or infrastructure.
user experience and interface to power and because it just works. We are excited Access to Zoom AI Companion, Zoom’s
their collaboration needs. “Today’s to deliver that same experience to the generative AI digital assistant.
enterprises are seeking to benefit from thousands of Avaya customers who will Collaboration solutions such as Zoom
the latest AI-powered innovations to help benefit from a simple yet powerful way to Team Chat, Zoom Scheduler, Zoom
differentiate, accelerate, and grow, all while collaborate.” Whiteboard, flexible spaces, and more.
integrating new levels of performance Enhanced collaboration with Zoom and The new Avaya and integrated Zoom
with minimal disruption to existing core Avaya Workplace experience and device
systems,” said Alan Masarek, Avaya CEO. Existing Avaya customers will retain their interoperability will be available to Avaya
“By partnering with Zoom, we can deliver investments in Avaya’s solutions and customers globally in the coming months.
on the promise of ‘innovation without devices while benefiting from Zoom’s AI- More details around the joint solution will
disruption’ for Avaya customers, providing powered collaboration platform, Zoom be shared later this spring.

China Mobile Targets 2.4M 5G Sites In 2024

China Mobile aims to deploy an additional Broadnet. China Mobile disclosed last to fall below 20 per cent from 20.9 per
410,000 5G base stations in 2024 to take week it plans to cut capex in 2024 by 4 per cent in 2023 and 22.8 per cent in 2022.
its total to 2.4 million, despite plans to cut cent to CNY173 billion ($23.9 billion), with Government figures showed the country’s
capex. The world’s largest mobile operator investment in 5G networks to drop 21.6 per three major operators closed 2023 with
by subscribers ended 2023 with 1.9 million cent to CNY69 billion. Overall spending on 3.4 million 5G base stations. Earlier this
5G base stations after adding 480,000 new connectivity is forecast to decline 20 per week, the GSMA forecast 5G connections
sites. The total includes 620,000 700MHz cent to CNY87.4 billion. As a percentage in China would top 1 billion this year, after
sites deployed in partnership with China of service revenue, capex is earmarked hitting 810 million at end-2023.

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