Verizon, AT&T Among Avaya Partner of the Year Award Winners

Avaya just unveiled its Partner of the Year Awards. They honor five U.S. and four Canadian supplier and channel partners for helping Avaya to grow its business.

The awards celebrate companies across six categories (Avaya OneCloud Public, Avaya OneCloud Subscription, Systems Integrator/Service Provider, Avaya Cloud Office, Avaya OneCloud Services, and U.S. Federal). Avaya also awards overall U.S. and Canadian partners for total revenue and total growth.

Avaya’s Frank Ciccone

Frank Ciccone is senior vice president of North America Sales at Avaya.

“Our partners have delivered impressive results during a challenging year while showing extraordinary commitment to their customers,” Ciccone said. “We are dedicated to helping our partners by providing them with incredible benefits and robust solutions to better service their customers. Our team celebrates their collective efforts and looks forward to a promising future with them.”

U.S. Winners

ConvergeOne took home Avaya OneCloud Public Cloud Partner of the Year, the Avaya OneCloud Partner of the Year, and overall U.S. Partner of the Year for Total Revenue awards. ConvergeOne is one of Avaya’s largest global partners with more than 13,000 enterprise and midmarket customers.

Verizon won the Systems Integrator/Services Provider Partner of the Year and overall U.S. Partner of the Year for Total Growth awards. Verizon has grown its Avaya partnership by more than 250%  and increased Avaya’s customer base by 100,000 seats in 2021.

Jenne received the Avaya Cloud Office Partner of the Year award. Jenne is a cloud services brokerage and value-added distributor of technology solutions focusing on unified communications and collaboration, networking and infrastructure, video conferencing, physical security and the internet of things (IoT).

AT&T won the Avaya OneCloud Services Partner of the Year award. This is the third consecutive year that AT&T has taken home a partner of the year award.

Ronco C&E received the U.S. Federal Partner of the Year award. It’s been a top-tier Avaya Diamond Partner for several years.

Canada Winners

Telus Communications earned two awards: Overall Canadian Partner of the Year for total revenue and Systems Integrator/Service Provider Partner of the Year. Telus and Avaya have jointly developed an Avaya OneCloud solution.

Connex received three awards: Overall Canadian Partner of the Year for Total Growth, Avaya OneCloud Services Partner of the Year, and Avaya OneCloud Subscription Partner of the Year. Connex continues to be a solutions provider supporting some of Avaya’s most prominent customers in Canada across government, education, enterprise, and midmarket, the company said.

Synnex Canada earned the Avaya Cloud Office Partner of the Year award. Synnex distributes more than 40,000 technology products from more than 500 of the world’s top suppliers.

BrantTel Networks garnered the Avaya OneCloud Public Cloud Partner of the Year award. In its last fiscal year, BrantTel led year-over-year growth of customers migrating to the cloud.