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UTDi Brings Interval International Back to the Avaya Customer Gallery.


MIAMI Miami, cities, United States
Miami (mīăm`ē, –ə).

1 City (1990 pop. 358,548), seat of Dade co., SE Fla., on Biscayne Bay at the mouth of the Miami River; inc. 1896.
 -- UTDi has a new Showcase member in the Avaya Customer Gallery, Interval International Interval International is an affiliated exchange company that arranges vacation exchanges for timeshare owners. Their exchange network includes more than 2,200 resorts and nearly 2 million member families worldwide. Similar to RCI, Interval International, I.I. . The Avaya Customer Gallery is a customer reference program, and showcases Avaya customers from all over the world, and exists to help Avaya Business Partners understand the key benefits of Avaya products, solutions and services.

For more than 26 years, Interval International has led the vacation ownership industry with innovative products and the highest levels of quality, service and value complemented by a global network of more than 2,000 resorts in 75 countries. With its headquarters located in Miami, Florida “Miami” redirects here. For the Native American tribe, see Miami tribe.

Miami is a major city in southeastern Florida, in the United States. It is the county seat of Miami-Dade County. Miami is a gamma world city with an estimated population of 404,048.
, Interval serves its developer clients and 1.8 million members through 27 offices in 18 countries and employs approximately 1,700 people worldwide. Interval International is a division of USA Interactive. To learn more about this company, visit their website at: http://www.intervalworld.com.

One challenge for the UTDi Design team was to provide business continuity. After losing all of their communications during Hurricane Wilma Hurricane Wilma was the most intense hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic basin. Exceeding the 21 storms of the 1933 season, Wilma was the twenty-second storm (including the subtropical storm discovered in reanalysis), thirteenth hurricane, sixth major hurricane, and fourth , Interval took steps to ensure this would not happen again. An additional benefit provided by UTDi to Interval was cost savings. Interval needed to save costs enterprise wide and connecting to their UK office via IP, taking advantage of the new licensing arrangements and cost efficient maintenance were just a few of the areas that Interval was looking at.

This customer has one of the largest call centers in South Florida. (700 agents). At their main site the customer is running Avaya Communication Manager 3.0 on the Avaya S8710 Media Server. At the second site the customer has Avaya Communication Manager 3.0 on the Avaya S8710 Media Server running in Enterprise Survivable sur·viv·a·ble  
adj.
1. Capable of surviving: survivable organisms in a hostile environment.

2. That can be survived: a survivable, but very serious, illness.
 Remote. To provide secure back up reporting the customer uses Avaya Call Management R13 in High Availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue.  in dual locations. Best Services Routing handles sending the calls to the multiple contact centers. For their messaging needs the customer has over 800 mail boxes on Avaya Modular Messaging 2.0 using Avaya Message Store. Interval also uses Nice Call Recording to capture voice and data to enhance agent productivity and Nice Analyzer. There is also a large contact center location in the UK. The customer at that location has Avaya Communication Manager 3.0 running on an Avaya S8710 Media Server for 200 agents. Avaya Call Management System R13 provides reporting for this location. This site is connected back to the main site via IP in order to provide world wide customer service and expand their follow the sun coverage. There is a contact center in Mexico with 30 agents that adds to the expanded coverage. The Mexico location has an Avaya S8500 and is completely IP. The customer also has small sales offices and call centers in Milan, Madrid, Singapore, Finland and Germany.

Applications and services that interval International now employs include: Avaya Communications Manager 3.0, Avaya S8700 Media Server, Enterprise Survivable Remote, Avaya Call Management R13 High Availability, Best Services Routing ,Avaya S8500 Media Server, Avaya G650 Media Gateway, Modular Messaging 2.0, and Nice Call Recording.

With agents located around the world to provide follow the sun coverage; Interval International is able to provide customer service 24 X 7. The system architecture is highly reliable, with built-in fail-safes and redundancies .By connecting the Avaya S8710 Media server in the US with the one in the UK via IP the customer realizes cost savings on daily communications. Their converged network The integration of the telephone system with IP-based data networks. See softswitch.

(networking) converged network - A single network that can carry voice, video and data.
 is less costly to maintain.

About Unified TelData, Inc.

Unified TelData, Inc. (UTDI) provides Intelligent Solutions for world-class communications to a broad range of customers including AVMED, United Way, APCO APCO Association of Public Safety Communications Officials
APCo Appalachian Power Company (Columbus, OH)
APCO Air Pollution Control Officer
APCO Alabama Power Company
APCO Associated Public Safety Communications Officers, Inc.
 Worldwide, BMW BMW
 in full Bayerische Motoren Werke AG

German automaker. Founded as an aircraft engine manufacturer in 1916, the company assumed the name Bayerische Motoren Werke and became known for its high-speed motorcycles in the 1920s.
, the City and County of San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , and the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, often abbreviated HUD, is a Cabinet department of the United States government. Although its beginnings were in the House and Home Financing Agency, it was founded in 1965 to develop and execute policy on housing . A full-service solutions provider with offices nationwide, UTDI offers its clients intelligently architected solutions as well as deployment, on-site training, technical support, financing options, and maintenance programs. UTDI is a National Avaya Platinum Business Partner, ranking among the top 10 Avaya dealers in the United States.

For more information visit www.utdi.com.
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