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Avaya is a global provider of business communications applications, systems and services focused on serving the needs of businesses of all sizes.
The company designs, builds, deploys and manages networks for more than 1 million businesses worldwide, including 90 percent of the Fortune 500 companies. In Asia-Pacific, Avaya's clients include Pizza Hut, LG Home Shopping Korea, Australian National University, Allianz, MBF Call Center, and Sun Microsystems Korea.
Avaya focuses on key growth areas such as Internet Protocol telephony, wireless data communication, and speech recognition technology. According to Synergy Research Group, Avaya is world's No.1 in IP telephony. To ensure Avaya's ongoing alignment with enterprise customers' needs, it has reorganized its business segments into Avaya Global Services and Global Communications Solutions.
Avaya Global Services has 9,000 services experts worldwide, supported by 24 network operations centers and 13 technical support centers. Working with 2,500 certified partners worldwide, the company employs about 20,000 people, including 2,500 research and development professionals.
Avaya ranks among ZDNet Asia's Top 10 fastest-growing companies for 2006/07.
This company is listed in Networking & Communications.
| Fiscal year-end Sept | FY06 | FY05 | FY04 | FY03 | FY02 |
| Global full-year revenue (US$millions) |
| 4,902.0 | 4,069.0 | 3,796.0 | 4,387.0 |
| Global full-year net income (US$millions) |
| 921.0 | 296.0 | -88.0 | -666.0 |
| Average year-on-year revenue growth over 4 years | 4.73 % |
| Average year-on-year net income growth over 4 years | 244.77 % |
| Percentage of revenue from Asia | |
| Percentage of Asian revenues from channel | |
| Founded | United States/2000 |
| First Asian office | Singapore/2000 |
| Global employees | 19,100 |
| Employees in Asia | 1,184 |
| Asian countries: Total 8 |
China, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand |
| Notes | * Data correct as at September 2006. Information was compiled by ZDNet Asia from sources such as official reports, corporate Web sites, and Hoover's. ZDNet Asia strived to get the latest information but does not guarantee the correctness or completeness of the data. The information provided on this site is for general informational purposes only and is not an offer to buy or sell any securities. |
ZDNet Asia's Top Tech Index will be next updated in 2008.

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