But surely customers must be alarmed at hearing the word “bankruptcy” applied to their critical communications supplier?
Their main business in the UK are PBXes and while they are sort-a critical they do not break easily and there is plenty of people to fix them with parts off eBay.
This is part of Avaya's problem - there is precious little new business in the remaining niches where they are dominant. It is all legacy with a very slow replacement cycle.