Western Electric roots

Since Avaya is a aggregation spun off from Lucent Technologies, itself a aftereffect of AT&T, Avaya continues to advertise and abutment acclaimed blast models for businesses that were fabricated accepted in the heyday of the Bell System, including the 2554 bank phone, and the 2500 alternation board phone, both accepted Western Electric models.12 Avaya blast assembly at the Shreveport Works, a above Western Electric pay buzz plant, accomplished in 2001. All of Avaya's telephones are fabricated alfresco the U.S. by arrangement manufacturers such as Celestica. Much of Avaya's artefact and chump set today can be traced aback to its AT&T bequest area it formed allotment of AT&T Network Systems.13