Radvision

Radvision — one of the largest players in the world market of a video conferencing. In 2012 it is purchased by Avaya corporation. Radvision is division of Avaya, offers end-to-end video conferencing and solutions for Unified Communications (UC) - from mobile devices to desktops, conference rooms and specialized complexes of remote presence. The solution portfolio of Scopia of Radvision company for standard video systems provides compatibility between new and traditional video in endpoints, UC or devices is platform-independent.

History of the company

2009: Aethra purchase

Merger of the Italian vendor of Aethra by Radvision company – the third in the world on the sales volume of the producer of the VIDEOCONFERENCING group systems. How Cisco absorbed Tandberg, the Radvision company at the end of 2009 purchased capital assets of Aethra. The SCOPIA XT1000 system, in fact, represents the last development of the Italian engineers — the Aethra Xtreme 300 model which did not manage to enter the market.

2012: Avaya buys Radvision

On March 15, 2012 Avaya announced agreement signature about the acquisition of Radvision, developer of solutions of a video conferencing and telepresence using as a data transmission medium wireless and IP networks.

The transaction worth $230 million was already approved by Boards of Directors of both companies, following the results investors of Radvision will receive $11.85 for each action. On end of all legal formalities 90 days are required.

According to Kevin Kennedy (Kevin Kennedy), the president and the chief executive officer of Avaya, now the company is faced by at the same time difficult and ambitious task to make video communications so popular and simple as telephone communication or the SMS.

Avaya intends to offer customers the technologies of collective interaction integrated with own Aura Unified Communications (UC) platform with support of video of high definition and various mobile devices, including popular Apple iPad and Google Android.

The portfolio of Radvision includes a full range of products for a video conferencing, technologies and examination for the companies of different scale and service providers. It includes the applications based on the commonly accepted standards, infrastructure solutions and endpoints for video conferencing in specially equipped rooms, on desktop PCs and mobile devices. Integrated solutions will allow Avaya to strengthen positions in the field of video communications in V2V-and B2C-segments and to fully correspond to the initiative of "Bring Your Own Device" (BYOD) gaining popularity. The last means use of consumer gadgets in corporate networks.

Integration of a line for work with video Radvision Scopia with an open architecture of Avaya Aura will give the chance to integrate communication environments based on the H.323 and SIP protocols and to propose to customers scalable and simple solutions in use. At the time of completion of the transaction partners of Radvision and Avaya will advance in the channel complex platforms of unified communications with support of video, service in support, service and deployment.