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Where did it all go wrong? IT's biggest downfalls

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With media empires crumbling and the world economy on the brink of collapse, we look at our industry's most memorable demises

29 Jul 2011

Avaya cements BT union with IP Office 7.0

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Vendor hopes rising demand will negate the need for more distribution tinkering

19 May 2011

Avaya: Nortel supply chain woes over soon

New Avaya channel boss looks to skill up PBX VARs

Stacking up for convergence

Four stones stacked up on a beach

Vendors rush to demonstrate that whole is greater than sum of its parts

06 May 2011

Nortel loses £2.1bn pension pot battle

Networking vendor's creditors must foot bill for pension shortfalls

13 Dec 2010

UK PBX market woes continue

No sign of a brighter day for telephony hardware space, despite global turnaround

06 Dec 2010

Avaya: Nortel supply chain woes over soon

Comms vendor uses Barcelona partner shindig to stress lead times are almost back to normal after integration process

08 Nov 2010

Avaya signals to partners with Flare

Vendor builds on its heritage to make its "broadest and deepest" push into the video space

28 Sep 2010

Avaya and BT to collaborate on unified communications

Comms vendor and carrier sign three-year extension to partnership and look to work together on higher-end technology

23 Aug 2010

Heel steps into Avaya services hotseat

Sun veteran Joe Heel is appointed comms player's services chief while Chris Formant moves to government-focused role

12 Aug 2010

Hungry Azlan pursues value-add success

Distributor eyes up services move after sealing Avaya deal in the UK

09 Aug 2010

Avnet given keys to Avaya kingdom

Nortel distributor handed access to comms vendor's entire portfolio following merger

04 Aug 2010

Nimans boosts VARs' Avaya support

Mancunian distributor adds field-based expertise and appoints old hand Phil Adams to manage Avaya business

03 Aug 2010

Avaya makes contact with Nortel partners

Vendor brings in Nortel ideas with product revamp

02 Aug 2010

Nimans granted access to Avaya data kit

Salford distributor to take stock of vendor's high-end networking portfolio

09 Jul 2010

Aastra UK chief eyes data VARs

Alan Reeve looks in Microsoft and HP channels to find new recruits

11 Jun 2010

Brocade bags Computacenter as first SI partner

Vendor boosts its networking market push with signing of corporate reseller

01 Jun 2010

Avaya claims training rejig will save VARs money

Vendor lauds benefits of subscription pricing model as new badges are unveiled

10 May 2010

McHugh on the move again with Brocade appointment

The 'Godfather of ProCurve' lands his fourth job inside two years after being named marketing chief at networking rival

01 Mar 2010

Telephony market begins recovery as 2009 ends

Western European market shrinks 23 per cent in 2009 as vendor competition intensifies

01 Mar 2010

Genband bags Nortel CVAS for $182m

Stalking-horse bidder captures fallen vendor's carrier VoIP arm after auction is cancelled

25 Feb 2010

Northern Irish Nortel plant could face axe

About 140 jobs are on the line as Avaya reveals potential "strategic" closure of Nortel's EMEA supply chain hub

01 Feb 2010

Avaya finalises Nortel roadmap

Vendor forecasts surge in demand as it wraps up portfolio integration

22 Jan 2010

A light at the end of the tunnel

It could be the sun shining outside, or it could be a train coming the other way. Fleur Doidge finds out if we’re getting back on track in 2010

18 Jan 2010

Cisco on the brink of Tandberg buy-out

Networking titan gets past 90 per cent stakeholding threshold as rival Avaya also gets one step closer to Nortel buy-out

07 Dec 2009

Radware seeks out committed partners

New owner of Alteon wants only the cream of the channel crop

04 Dec 2009

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CRN Partner Connect 2012

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CRN's premier networking event is back on 17 May at the Ricoh Arena

Date: Thu 17 May 2012

CRN Fight Night 2012

One of the fights from CRN Fight Night 2010

Channel fighters preparing to square up once more on 24 May

Date: Thu 24 May 2012

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Departing CEO has done Dixons a service

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