Avaya Spaces Collaboration App Enables Better Video Conferencing Experiences With NVIDIA AI
October 05 2020 - 9:00AM
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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.”
To learn more about how Avaya and NVIDIA are enhancing video
collaboration read our blog, NVIDIA AI + Avaya Spaces = The Best
Remote Collaboration Solution, Even Better.
About Avaya
Businesses are built by the experiences they provide, and
everyday millions of those experiences are delivered by Avaya
Holdings Corp. (NYSE: AVYA). Avaya is shaping what's next for the
future of work, with innovation and partnerships that deliver
game-changing business benefits. Our cloud communications solutions
and multi-cloud application ecosystem power personalized,
intelligent, and effortless customer and employee experiences to
help achieve strategic ambitions and desired outcomes. Together, we
are committed to help grow your business by delivering Experiences
that Matter. Learn more at http://www.avaya.com
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