Avaya Aura® Session Manager

Avaya Aura® Session Manager enables new distributed SIP-based system solutions featuring multi-vendor integration, centralized dial plans and user profiles, easier centralized SIP trunking, much easier "on-net" call routing, and greatly enhanced SIP scalability and security. This enhanced architectural flexibility allows enterprises to significantly reduce telecommunications and management costs, lower their TCO, and increase business agility by being able to more rapidly deploy appropriate Unified Communications capabilities to different user groups wherever they are.

Avaya Aura Session Manager is a key enabler of Avaya's next generation Aura architecture. Avaya Aura builds on the highly-reliable and extensible IP-based Communication Manager software and brings it together with a revolutionary new SIP-based Avaya Aura Session Manager capability. This powerful combination makes it possible to unify media, modes, networks, devices, applications and real-time, actionable presence across a common infrastructure, creating the web-style, on-demand access to services and applications that users increasingly expect from their enterprise communications solution. The result is a platform for fully exploiting the value of converged communications, satisfying the needs of employees and customers, quickly distributing the enhanced applications that deliver improved performance while driving down overall costs and simplifying system management.

Avaya Aura Session Manager's SIP-based routing provides more centralized control capabilities and significant improvements in scale, enabling more cost effective and larger distributed deployments for enterprises. Avaya Aura Session Manager overlays the existing PBX infrastructure ensuring an evolutionary path forward that protects investment in today's Avaya systems and software.

Session Manager is an integrated part of Avaya Aura®, easy to purchase, deploy and manage and will provide an evolutionary path for customers, allowing them to benefit from new capabilities at their own pace. Session Manager complements other parts of the Avaya Aura® portfolio, including our well established voice and video telephony software, new intelligent presence capabilities, application enablement interfaces, and comprehensive integrated management. The full Avaya Aura portfolio provides the software architecture and technologies required to enable next generation Unified Communications and Contact Center solutions.