Avaya (NYSE: AVYA), a global leader in solutions to enhance and simplify
communications and collaboration, is integrating powerful cloud AI
solutions from NVIDIA to increase the
impact and value of visual, audible and collaborative experiences through the
Avaya Spaces™ app. The innovative new capabilities enabled by this
integration are being unveiled at NVIDIA GTC, running October 5-9.
Avaya Spaces is an all-in-one video collaboration app for the digital
workplace that changes the way work gets done. Avaya Spaces is used by
businesses, schools, governments and organizations in nearly 100 countries to
bring together distributed groups of people instantly with immersive work
spaces where they can message, meet, share content, manage tasks and
collaborate in the cloud. Announced separately by NVIDIA today, the NVIDIA
Maxine cloud-native streaming video AI platform features a broad collection of
cloud-based audio, video, and conversational AI software that enhances the
video conferencing user experience.
“Millions
of users around the world rely on Avaya’s award-winning unified communications
and collaboration solutions to deliver exceptional customer and employee
experiences,” said Anthony Bartolo, Executive Vice President and Chief Product
Officer, Avaya. “With NVIDIA’s
leadership in artificial intelligence and Avaya’s 20 years of innovation, we’re
able to deliver AI from the cloud and cost-effectively scale to help address
the rapid growth in meetings and collaboration in a work-from-anywhere world.”
Combining
NVIDIA Maxine with Avaya Spaces brings to life an entirely new level of
market-defining, AI-powered meeting capabilities. Customers will benefit from
background noise removal, virtual green screen backgrounds, rich presenter
features enabling presenters to be overlaid on top of presentation content, as
well as live transcriptions that can recognize and differentiate voices. NVIDIA
GPU computing and the NGC software catalog in
Google Cloud empower Avaya to deliver these AI features cost effectively,
scaling to address the rapid growth in video meetings and collaboration
occurring with the acceleration of remote work. Importantly, this
significantly reduces end-user device requirements, allowing these advanced
features to be available broadly without the need to use any specialized
hardware or even update the camera.
“Video
communication has become an essential tool for everyone working and studying
remotely,” said Ian Buck, Vice President and General Manager of Accelerated
Computing at NVIDIA. “With the NVIDIA Maxine software platform running on
NVIDIA GPU computing in the cloud, Avaya Spaces customers will be able to enjoy
more engaging video conferencing experiences with real-time AI features that
can stream easily to millions of laptops, tablets and mobile phones.”
“The COVID-19 pandemic has
shifted video from being a lightly used tool to something used by almost
everyone, all day long, and this trend is likely to continue,” said Zeus
Kerravala, Founder and Principal Analyst
with ZK Research. “A recent ZK Research Work From Anywhere Study
revealed that post-pandemic, the number of remote workers will jump from 22
percent to 40 percent and almost all ‘meetings’ will include video. While Avaya
Spaces is a collaboration app that is much more than video, the AI powered
capabilities built into NVIDIA Maxine create better meetings, and by
teaming up with NVIDIA, Avaya can provide state of the art AI capabilities to
deliver an enhanced experience to its massive install base.”