Avaya released an iPad client for its unified communications system:

“Avaya, a global provider of business communications and collaboration systems and services, today announced the availability of Avaya Flare Communicator for iPad tablets. Avaya Flare Communicator broadens the next-generation user experience of the Avaya Flare Experience currently delivered on the Avaya Desktop Video Device, to include the market-leading consumer tablet. Avaya Flare Communicator provides mobile workers with secure, next-generation, unified communications and collaboration capabilities over both Wi-fi and 3G networks.

Avaya Flare Communicator for iPad tablets is enabled by the Avaya Aura® unified communications architecture, which delivers integrated applications to a broad range of fixed and mobile devices. Today, Avaya takes secure mobile collaboration a step further by making the Avaya Flare Communicator a download from the Apple App Store, with plans to extend to additional consumer devices and operating systems later this year.“

Key capabilities: view presence, start interacting with people, search the directory, etc.

Available immediately.