EXTR Acquires Avaya

Extreme Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXTR) announced in San Jose, Calif. on July 17, 2017, that it has completed its acquisition of Avaya Inc.’s (“Avaya”) networking business. The acquisition supports the company’s growth strategy to lead the enterprise networking market with end-to-end software-driven solutions for enterprise customers from the data center to the wireless edge.

“This is an exciting day for Extreme and a strategic milestone for our company that further enables us to deliver the end-to-end networking solutions and services enterprise customers across our target vertical markets need to run their businesses,” said Ed Meyercord, President and CEO of Extreme Networks. “In addition to acquiring networking assets that complement and strengthen our capabilities, we are expanding our bench of talented and experienced employees, partners and networking customers. We’ve already seen great participation from new and existing partners and customers during our recent closing roadmap webinar, which is a key indicator of the mutual excitement for this deal.”   Read More

AIC Sets Up CISCO Academy in Ghana

Through it’s partner, Mobile Web Ghana, AIC recently set up CISCO Academy centre. Mobile Web Ghana is a non-government organisation that implements ICT4  Development projects in Ghana, and runs an innovation hub and specialises in building the technology capacity of the next generation to solve local problem and contribute effectively to development of the country.

In the past they built the capacity of up to 600 students in mobile apps development, entrepreneurship and data analysis and visualisations. Requests from students and other professionals for CISCO courses, an initiative was formalized to
build the capacity of the youth in technology to solve problems, to perfectly align with CISCO’s mission. The support from CISCO empowered the project to bridge the technology knowledge gap of students and professionals to contribute meaningfully to development of the nation.

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