Development History
In the autumn of 2005 a small team of engineers from Nortel's Maidenhead R&D center developed, as a skunkworks project, a prototype Unified Communications application server, code-named Arachne. The project was reviewed by executive leadership and in late 2006 the program was given the go-ahead under the title of Project Raptor.
The development work was done in three of Nortel's R&D labs: Ottawa, Beijing, and Maidenhead. Approximately 80 engineers across the three sites worked on this program.
- Late 2006 - Project Raptor begins.
- November 2007 - Product officially announced at a joint Nortel/IBM event in New York and soon afterwards rebranded as Agile Communication Environment.
- Winter 2007/Spring 2008 - Lead customer trials conducted, focused around Parlay X WSDLs and SIP/CTI interfaces.
- July 2008 - Version 1.0 is released.
- November 2008 - Version 1.1 is released.
- March 2009 - Version 1.2 released.
- August 2009 - Version 2.0 released.
- September 2009 - Version 2.1 released.
- December 2009 - Avaya acquires Nortel Enterprise business
- April 2010 - Version 2.2 released.
- December 2010 - Version 2.3 released.
- December 2011 - Version 3.0 released.
- August 2012 - Version 3.0.3 released.
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