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Divestitures
 9 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2015
Discontinued Operations and Disposal Groups [Abstract]  
Divestitures
Divestitures
IT Professional Services Business
On March 31, 2014, the Company completed the sale of the ITPS business of its wholly-owned subsidiary, Avaya Government Solutions Inc. for an initial sales price of $98 million, net of $2 million in costs to sell and subject to working capital and other customary price adjustments. Subsequent to the sale, positive working capital adjustments of $3 million were identified, and the final sales price of the ITPS business as adjusted is $101 million. The ITPS business, which was part of the Avaya Global Services segment, provides specialized information technology services exclusively to government customers in the U.S. The Company retained its Federal product sales and services teams and continues to sell unified communications, collaboration, contact center and networking products and services to Federal, state and municipal governments under the name Avaya Government Solutions.
Discontinued Operations
The summarized financial information of ITPS is reported as discontinued operations as follows:
In millions
Three months ended June 30, 2014
 
Nine months ended June 30, 2014
SERVICES REVENUE
$
—

 
$
53

OPERATING INCOME FROM DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS
$
—

 
$
7

Gain on sale of ITPS business
3

 
52

INCOME FROM DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS BEFORE INCOME TAXES
3

 
$
59

Provision for income taxes from discontinued operations
(1
)
 
(27
)
INCOME FROM DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS, NET OF INCOME TAXES
$
2

 
$
32

Technology Business Unit
On July 31, 2014, the Company completed the sale of assets and liabilities associated with the Technology Business Unit ("TBU") for a final sales price of $26 million. TBU, which was acquired as part of the Radvision acquisition, is a software development business that licenses technologies to developers for their use and integration into their own products and includes protocol stacks, client framework solutions, and network testing and monitoring tools.