General Octel Question.

[kevin906]

I have responsibility over several flavors of Octel. Never having been trained on any of the Octel product line I am perplexed at the different names and architectures that are out there. I have researched as much as possible the docs that are on Avaya as they are now the owner of the product. It appears that Octel must have bought up different companies and put their branding on whatever they had at the time. Octel 100 vs. Octel VMX100 for example. Aspen, etc. Is there any single doc that covers all the different products that they made and/or acquired over the years?
They could not have possibly been deploying all of the various OS/HW platforms as progressions of their native product line.
Understand that's a tall order but thougtht I would throw it out there.

Thx

 

[doktor]

Your question is difficult to answer for the most of the writers in this forum, due to the fact that most of us only have knowledge of a product range.
And with AVAYA, OCTEL, Lucent, ASPEN, Sierra, VMX etc. there are many combinations.
I began working with VMX-100/200/300, sold by Ericsson (now Aastra) back in 1992. Then VMX was acquired by OCTEL, and late Lucent bought OCTEL. Finally AVAYA took over after Lucent.
The OCTEL procducts 250/350, which I also worked with when they were sold as integrated parts of the Alcatel 4400 (they were named 4035H), were also bought by Lucent and later AVAYA.
Maybe this can give you an idea about the situation...?
///doktor

 

[KenMeans]

I do not think that a single doc does cover all of the messaging products that Octel made / supported over the years.

At least not one that does anything but list them. I will see if i can dig one up.

And you are correct that they were not developing all of the lines as they just bought up segments of voicemail that they did not cover. IE Octel 100 that is PC based and for a smaller user base that could not afford the Aspen or Aria.

They did develop what is now the MM system just before Lucent bought Octel and Avaya has continued to develop it.




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