Avaya Banks on the Future of Phones; Company at Forefront of VoIP Technology.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News,  March, 2004  

Tags: Avaya Inc., bank, Hackensack, phone, VoIP

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By Martha McKay, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Mar. 30--Basking Ridge-based Avaya is riding the VoIP wave.

VoIP -- short for Voice over Internet Protocol -- is a phone technology that translates voice conversations into tiny packets of data and, among other things, gives a desktop phone computer-like features.

Most experts believe VoIP will eventually replace our current phone system, which works by opening a single circuit between two callers.

Avaya, which spun off from Lucent Technologies in 2000, sells VoIP telephone networks to ...

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