Avaya Joins iCERT Industry Council to Expand Next Generation 9-1-1 Capabilities Through Strategic Collaboration
September 16 2019 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
Avaya Holdings Corp (NYSE: AVYA), a global leader in solutions
to enhance and simplify communications and collaboration, today
announced its membership in the Industry Council for Emergency
Response Technologies (iCERT), an organization that brings together
leading companies involved in emergency communications and response
technology.
“As the leader in providing innovative ways for people to
collaborate and communicate from anywhere on any device, we are
excited to join the Industry Council for Emergency Response
Technologies,” said Mark Fletcher, chief architect worldwide public
safety solutions, Avaya. “Avaya continues to deliver on the
benefits that Next Generation 9-1-1 service can bring and we are
proud to work with iCERT to positively affect policy and achieve
widespread accessibility for emergency services.”
Avaya continues to bring new innovation to the critical
emergency communications solutions market segment as part of its
ongoing commitment and focus on public safety communications and
collaboration. The company has demonstrated a long-term commitment
to this space as evidenced through its advocacy of “The Kari’s Law
Act of 2017” which requires direct dial access to 9-1-1 services
from all devices. Across the country, 911 dispatchers in more than
6,100 emergency communications centers, or PSAPs are working with
outdated technology that was created in the landline era and
optimized for people who call 911 from a traditional landline, thus
creating a significant communication gap in today’s emergency
response process. Earlier this year the company announced that its
Avaya IX™ Workplace unified communications solutions for the
enterprise can now deliver NG911 Additional Data as well as the
explicit device location to public safety agencies through an
integration with 911 Secure SENTRY™ and RapidSOS.
Since its founding in 2005, iCERT remains the exclusive
provider-only trade association championing commercial response
technology organizations. “Each iCERT Board Member offers unique
technology capabilities to advance public safety, just like Avaya,”
said Kim Robert Scovill, the Industry Council’s Executive Director.
“Establishing, maintaining, and growing relationships among key
technology company leaders—the members of iCERT—is an important
element of iCERT’s vision. We look forward to Avaya’s leadership in
our mission to advocate for more new funding and introduction of
the newest and best technologies in the public safety sector for
first responders and the public.”
iCERT improves the public safety ecosystem through continuous
new funding advocacy, ensuring that the needs and views of
commercial technology providers are recognized and accommodated by
all levels of government, driving continuous technology
improvements, education, and helping our members reach their
organic and marketplace growth objectives.
Additional Resources
- Learn more about Avaya’s Public Safety Communications &
Next-Gen Emergency Services
- Learn how Avaya and select partners deliver Next-Generation 911
(NG911)
About Avaya
Businesses are built on the experiences they provide, and
everyday millions of those experiences are built by Avaya (NYSE:
AVYA). For over one hundred years, we’ve enabled organizations
around the globe to win – by creating intelligent communications
experiences for customers and employees. Avaya builds open,
converged and innovative solutions to enhance and simplify
communications and collaboration – in the cloud, on-premise or a
hybrid of both. To grow your business, we’re committed to
innovation, partnership, and a relentless focus on what’s next.
We’re the technology company you trust to help you deliver
Experiences that Matter. Visit us at www.avaya.com.
About Industry Council for Emergency Response
Technologies
The Industry Council for Emergency Response Technologies
(“iCERT”) is the voice of commercial enterprises in the field of
critical communications and emergency response technologies. iCERT
plays an important role in addressing public policy issues
impacting funding, regulation, and impact of vendors in the
emergency calling, communications and response ecosystem. iCERT
members understand that business leaders’ expertise can assist
public policymakers and agency professionals as they address
complex choices regarding advanced communications technology
alternatives. Find out more at www.theindustrycouncil.org.
iCERT’s
Mission
iCERT; 1) advocates for more and new public safety funding, 2)
petitions all levels of government to insure that the needs and
views of commercial technology providers be recognized and
accommodated, 3) helps to grow members’ organic revenue,
partnerships, and total market share with exclusive and unique
iCERT business-to-business internal opportunities, 4) promotes
understanding and adoption of advanced technologies in all public
safety sectors - NG9-1-1, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data,
Location Technologies, Communications Networks, CAD, Cloud-Based
Systems, LTE, LMR, Recording, Dispatch, and Cybersecurity (to name
a few); and 5) helps ensure that issues that unfairly burden or
impede the introduction of new public safety / response
technologies to the marketplace are explained and accommodated
before decisions are made by federal, state, and local
regulators.
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are not limited to, expected cash savings and statements about
growth, exchange listing and improved operational metrics. The
Company has based these forward-looking statements on its current
expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections. While the
Company believes these expectations, assumptions, estimates and
projections are reasonable, such forward-looking statements are
only predictions and involve known and unknown risks and
uncertainties, many of which are beyond its control. The factors
are discussed in the Company’s Registration Statement on Form 10
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