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AVAYA INC Form 10-K Annual Report Filed 2012-12-12 SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION FORM 10-K Annual report pursuant to section 13 and 15(d) Filing Date: 2012-12-12 | Period of Report: 2012-09-30 SEC Accession No. 0001116521-12-000009 (HTML Version on secdatabase.com) FILER AVAYA INC Mailing Address Business Address 211 MOUNT AIRY ROAD 211 MOUNT AIRY RD CIK:1116521| IRS No.: 223713430 | State of Incorp.:DE | Fiscal Year End: 0930 BASKING RIDGE NJ 07920 BASKING RIDGE NJ 07920 Type: 10-K | Act: 34 | File No.: 001-15951 | Film No.: 121259966 9089536000 SIC: 3661 Telephone & telegraph apparatus Copyright © 2014 www.secdatabase.com. All Rights Reserved. Please Consider the Environment Before Printing This Document UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, DC 20549 FORM 10-K ý ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For The Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2012 Or ¨ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 Commission File Number 001-15951 AVAYA INC. (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) Delaware 22-3713430 (State or other jurisdiction (I.R.S. Employer of incorporation or organization) Identification No.) 211 Mount Airy Road Basking Ridge, New Jersey 07920 (Address of Principal executive offices) (Zip Code) Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (908) 953-6000 Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: None Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None Indicate by check mark if the Registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes ¨ No ý Indicate by check mark if the Registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act. Yes ý No ¨ * See explanatory note in Part II, Item 9B Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15 (d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the Registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes ¨ No ý * See explanatory note in Part II, Item 9B Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the Registrant was required to submit and post such files). Yes ý No ¨ Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of the Registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K. ¨ Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, or a non-accelerated filer. See definition of “accelerated filer and large accelerated filer” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one): Large accelerated Accelerated Non-accelerated Smaller reporting filer o filer o filer x company o Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes ¨ No ý Copyright © 2013 www.secdatabase.com. All Rights Reserved. Please Consider the Environment Before Printing This Document As of December 12, 2012, 100 shares of Common Stock, $.01 par value, of the Registrant were outstanding. Copyright © 2013 www.secdatabase.com. All Rights Reserved. Please Consider the Environment Before Printing This Document TABLE OF CONTENTS Item Description PART I 1 Business. 1 1A. Risk Factors. 17 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments. 31 2 Properties. 31 3 Legal Proceedings. 31 4 Mine Safety Disclosures. 31 PART II 5 Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities. 32 6 Selected Financial Data. 32 7 Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations. 37 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk. 69 8 Financial Statements and Supplementary Data. 71 9 Changes in and Disagreements With Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure. 135 9A. Controls and Procedures. 135 9B. Other Information. 135 PART III 10 Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance. 139 11 Executive Compensation. 143 12 Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters. 168 13 Certain Relationships and Related Transactions and Director Independence. 171 14 Principal Accounting Fees and Services. 174 PART IV 15 Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules. 176 When we use the terms “we,” “us,” “our,” “Avaya” or the “Company,” we mean Avaya Inc., a Delaware corporation, and its consolidated subsidiaries taken as a whole, unless the context otherwise indicates. This Annual Report on Form 10-K contains the registered and unregistered Avaya Aura®, Avaya Flare®, AvayaLive, Radvision Scopia®, and other trademarks or service marks of Avaya and are the property of Avaya Inc. and/or its affiliates. This Annual Report on Form 10-K also contains additional tradenames, trademarks or service marks belonging to us and to other companies. We do not intend our use or display of other parties’ trademarks, tradenames or service marks to imply, and such use or display should not be construed to imply, a relationship with, or endorsement or sponsorship of us by, these other parties. 1 Copyright © 2013 www.secdatabase.com. All Rights Reserved. Please Consider the Environment Before Printing This Document PART I Item 1. Business. Our Company We are a leading global provider of real-time business collaboration and communications solutions that bring people together with the right information at the right time in the right context, enabling businesses to improve their efficiency and quickly solve critical business challenges. Our solutions are designed to enable business users to work together more effectively internally and with their customers and suppliers, to accelerate decision-making and achieve business outcomes. These industry leading solutions are also designed to be flexible, reliable and secure, enabling simplified management and cost reduction while providing a platform for next-generation collaboration from Avaya. We are highly focused on serving our core business collaboration and communications markets with open and unifying, fit-for-purpose solutions and distributed software services and support models. We shape our portfolio to meet the demands of customers today and in the future. Our solutions and services are aimed at large enterprises, small- and mid-sized businesses and government organizations. We offer solutions in three key business collaboration and communications categories: • Real-Time Collaboration, Video and Unified Communications Software, Infrastructure and Endpoints for an increasingly mobile workforce; • Customer Experience Interaction Management, including Contact Center applications; and • Networking. These three categories are supported by Avaya's portfolio of services including product support, integration, and professional and managed services that enable customers to optimize and manage their communications networks worldwide and achieve enhanced business results. Our business collaboration solutions are designed to be highly scalable, reliable, secure, flexible and easy to manage. They can be deployed in numerous ways including on a customer's own premise, in the cloud and in a virtualized environment. We believe that delivering solutions in a cloud environment, either private or public, will be the deployment mode of choice for many customers in the near future. Further, our research and development investments are focused on solutions across the user experience and business application layers, the infrastructure layer, and endpoints. In addition, we are investing in software for monitoring, troubleshooting and managing distributed communications architectures that we believe will reduce the total cost of ownership and improve end-to-end serviceability of our solutions versus our competitors. Significant industry trends, such as the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and the blurring of consumer and enterprise, called the “Consumerization of IT,” are driving the overall move toward enterprise mobility. Enterprises seek 24x7, device and location agnostic collaboration solutions to increase employee effectiveness, reduce costs and gain competitive advantages in the marketplace. In addition, we believe many businesses today have grown through acquisition or lack central controls on infrastructure and are left with inefficient, disparate communications infrastructure that may benefit financially from consolidation. As a result of these trends, we believe that enterprises require a holistic, flexible business collaboration solution that is designed to facilitate collaboration, and incorporates enterprise-class stability, scalability and security. Additionally, we believe that the market will evolve to require secure collaboration between enterprises including video, desktop sharing, presence and directory updates. Through our innovative collaboration solutions, we are reshaping our product portfolio to address these trends and continue to grow our business. The foundation for our ongoing innovation is our Avaya Aura platform, our Session Initiation
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