Avaya ERS 8600 (English Wikipedia)

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"ASVALAN Certification" (PDF). Defense Information Systems Agency. 18 December 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
"Nortel Completes Sale of Substantially All of Enterprise Solutions Business to Avaya". Nortel Networks. Archived from the original on 30 November 2011. Retrieved 8 February 2012.
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Tolly Group Engineers (February 2007). "Evaluation of Resilient Routing Switches for Real-Time Multimedia Traffic with Microsoft Live Communications Server 2005 and Nortel MCS 5100" (PDF). The Tolly Group. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 July 2011. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
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"Product Announcements". Nortel Networks. 26 March 2002. Archived from the original on 13 December 2004. Retrieved 25 January 2012.
"Simplifying Nortel Product Names". Nortel Networks. Archived from the original on 29 October 2005. Retrieved 8 February 2012.
JITC (DoD) (16 December 2011). "Special Interoperability Test Certification of the Avaya Ethernet Routing Switch (ERS)5600 Series with Release 6.2.100.073". DISA. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 20 December 2011.
"Special Interoperability Test Certification of the Avaya Ethernet Routing Switch (ERS)8800 with Release 7.1.0.100_B068" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 April 2012. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
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