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The enterprise networks group being spun out of Lucent Technologies is to be named Avaya (pronounced uhv-eye-uh).John Winchester, vice-president and UK general manager of Avaya, told Electronics Times: "The spin-off is going according to the plans we announced earlier this year, and should be completed by the end of September."The company will have 1400 UK employees making, selling and servicing a range of communications and networking equipment for business customers. Of these, 600 will work in R&D for communications equipment, notably lans and wans, at sites in Welwyn Garden City, Winchester and Fleet.Researchers working for Lucent's Bell Labs subsidiary on enterprise networking solutions will transfer to Avaya, and most of its UK staff will be based at Winchester and the new centre of excellence at Fleet. Lucent is retaining the Bell Labs name.Winchester said: "The new Avaya has ambitious plans to increase R&D spend by 50% a year over the next few years, not just here in Europe but globally. And we will be starting with 35,000 people and a business that had sales last year of $8bn."