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BASKING RIDGE, NJ, Jan 12, 2012 -- Avaya, a global provider of business communications and collaboration systems and services, today announced new appointments and changes to the company's senior executive committee.

-- Marc Randall joins Avaya as senior vice president and general manager
for Avaya Networking. A highly respected veteran of the networking
industry, Randall most recently served as vice president and general
manager of Cisco Systems' Scalable Network Business Unit. He has also
held positions as president and CEO for Force10 Networks and senior
vice president of Brocade Communications.

-- Gary Barnett moves to the executive staff to lead Avaya Collaboration
Infrastructure as senior vice president and general manager. Barnett
joined Avaya last April, most recently leading the Unified
Communications Applications team. Prior to Avaya, Barnett held
positions as CEO for Prospect Software and president and CEO for
Aspect Communications.

-- Brett Shockley will take on responsibility for Avaya Applications
including the Contact Center and Unified Communications portfolios, as
well as maintain oversight of Emerging Technology as senior vice
president and general manager. Shockley recently led the company's
Corporate Development, Strategy and Innovation team, where he played a
key role in defining and articulating Avaya's strategic direction and
product innovation.

-- Dr. Alan Baratz becomes senior vice president for Corporate
Development and Strategy, with related responsibilities for mergers,
acquisitions and alliances, company pricing models, market
intelligence and analyst relations. Baratz most recently served as
senior vice president and president of Avaya's Global Communications
Solutions (GCS) unit.

All of these senior executives will report to Avaya president and CEO, Kevin J. Kennedy.

Posted by Veronica Silva Cusi, news correspondent
Source: http://www.marketwatch.com

About Avaya:
Avaya Inc. designs, builds and manages communications networks for businesses. Focused on businesses large to small, Avaya provides an Internet Protocol (IP) telephony system of communications software applications and services. Driving the convergence of voice and data communications with business applications - Avaya helps customers leverage existing and new networks to achieve superior business results.