
Avaya AEP R8 SMS 3600 Message Hour DR Upgrade License
This Avaya Aura Platform R8 upgrade license provides essential disaster recovery capabilities for your SMS 3600 messaging services, ensuring continuous operation.
- Enhanced Uptime: Guarantees availability of critical messaging services during disaster events.
- License Compliance: Ensures your messaging platform meets DR requirements and licensing terms.
- Operational Continuity: Protects against service interruptions, maintaining business communication flow.
- Feature Enablement: Unlocks disaster recovery functionality for the SMS 3600 component of your Avaya platform.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Avaya AEP R8 SMS 3600 Message Hour DR Upgrade License is a software subscription that enables disaster recovery functionality for your Avaya Aura Platform's SMS 3600 messaging services. This license is designed to ensure your business-critical communication remains operational even in the event of a primary site failure.
This upgrade is essential for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations who rely on Avaya Aura for internal and external communications. It integrates directly into your existing Avaya infrastructure, providing a vital layer of resilience for your messaging environment.
- Disaster Recovery Activation: Enables the SMS 3600 component to function in a secondary or DR site.
- Message Hour Capacity: Supports message hour requirements for DR operations.
- Platform Upgrade: Facilitates the upgrade path for R8 platform versions.
- Subscription Billing: Provides predictable costs with a recurring subscription model.
- Compliance Assurance: Helps meet regulatory and business continuity requirements for communication systems.
Secure your business communications with this essential Avaya upgrade, ensuring your messaging services remain accessible during critical events.
What This Enables
Enable Disaster Recovery for Messaging Services
Enable teams to maintain critical SMS and messaging functions during a primary site outage. Ensure business continuity by activating a secondary messaging environment.
on-premises deployments, hybrid cloud environments, business continuity planning, IT infrastructure resilience
Streamline DR Compliance Requirements
Streamline adherence to regulatory and internal policies requiring disaster recovery for communication platforms. Maintain license compliance for DR scenarios.
regulated industries, IT governance, operational risk management, communication system audits
Automate Failover for Communication Systems
Automate the process of switching messaging operations to a disaster recovery site. Minimize manual intervention and reduce recovery time objectives (RTO).
high-availability requirements, IT operations management, proactive system monitoring, emergency preparedness
Key Features
Avaya Aura Platform R8 Compatibility
Ensures seamless integration with your current Avaya Aura R8 messaging environment.
SMS 3600 Message Hour DR Support
Provides the necessary licensing to operate messaging services at a disaster recovery site, supporting required message volumes.
Subscription Licensing Model
Offers predictable operational expenses and continuous access to necessary software updates and support.
Disaster Recovery Enablement
Unlocks the critical functionality needed to maintain communication services during unforeseen outages or site failures.
License Compliance
Helps organizations meet vendor licensing requirements for disaster recovery configurations.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require continuous communication for trading, customer service, and regulatory compliance, making robust disaster recovery for messaging essential.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must maintain constant communication for patient care coordination and emergency response, necessitating reliable disaster recovery for all critical systems, including messaging.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services rely on secure and uninterrupted communication for client consultations, case management, and sensitive data exchange, where downtime is unacceptable.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial operations depend on timely communication for production coordination, logistics, and safety alerts, where any interruption can lead to significant operational and financial losses.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Avaya AEP R8 SMS 3600 Message Hour DR UPG LIC?
This is a software upgrade license for the Avaya Aura Platform R8, specifically for the SMS 3600 component. It enables disaster recovery capabilities, allowing your messaging services to operate from a secondary site during an outage.
What does 'Message Hour' refer to in this license?
Message Hour refers to the capacity or volume of messages your disaster recovery messaging service is licensed to handle over a specific period, ensuring it can support your business needs during a failover.
Is this a perpetual license or a subscription?
This license is a subscription, meaning it is billed on a recurring basis, typically annually or monthly, providing ongoing access to the disaster recovery functionality.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Medium — IT-assisted
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
Digital software licenses and SaaS subscriptions cannot be returned once activated or provisioned. Contact a Zent Networks account manager if you have questions before purchasing.