Dods & Associates, Inc. is an Avaya Communications, Inc. Business Partner. Dods & Associates, Inc. started in 1989 as an agency for AT&T telephone systems. Since then, the telephone equipment company of AT&T has become Lucent Technologies and now Avaya Communications. Dods and Associates, Inc. sells, installs and services Avaya telephone systems and communications products to small, medium, and large businesses. We also sell other products, which work with Avaya systems and partner with network providers to bring a total solution to our customers.