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Avistar Launches New Desktop Videoconferencing Editions Offering Unrivaled Price/Performance at VoiceCon, Booth #1031
Avistar C3 Communicator™ and Avistar C3 Unified™ Editions are designed to reduce desktop videoconferencing costs by as much as 200 percent
VoiceCon, Orlando, Fla. and San Mateo, Calif., March 22, 2010 – Avistar Communications Corp. (www.avistar.com), a leader in unified visual communications solutions, today introduced at VoiceCon Orlando 2010, booth #1031, six packaged editions of its award-winning Avistar C3™ platform that offer breakthrough price/performance. The company also announced that Chris Lauwers, CTO of Avistar, will be speaking on Tuesday, March 23 on a VoiceCon panel entitled, “Challenges in Mass Deployment: From Tens to Thousands of Video Endpoints.” The panel takes place from 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. in Osceola A of the Gaylord Palms Resort & Conference Center. Enterprise use of video is growing, but it remains a “niche” application -- largely used by a select set of users in planned sessions. For video conferencing to move into the mainstream, it needs to evolve into a universal tool for business – an application that is used both inside and outside a company’s boundaries.
New editions of the Avistar C3 Communicator™ and the Avistar C3 Unified™- Microsoft OCS solutions are designed to deliver unrivaled price/performance to Avistar distributors, partners and clients. Packaged as a standalone, pro or business edition, each offers state-of-the-art features, functionality and technology – while fitting the needs and budget of target buyers.
Stephen Epstein, CMO, Avistar, said, “In today’s value-centric economy, businesses want an all-software desktop visual communications solution so they can obtain high quality communications at a price that other appliance-based solutions just can’t match. With these new offerings, Avistar’s all-software video architecture provides customers with a feature-rich desktop visual communication solution that can also be used with unified communications solutions or as a virtual desktop application at a price point that is tremendously attractive.”
Eric Krapf, Program Co-Chair of VoiceCon and Editor of No Jitter, said, “Avistar continues to take a smart approach to desktop videoconferencing, mapping what customers say they need with approaches that work, such as these new editions.”
Avistar’s premier communication and collaboration platform, Avistar C3™, blends a mastery of visual communications technology with a keen understanding of what desktop videoconferencing customers, channel alliance partners and OEM technology partners need and expect from an optimized desktop visual communications experience.
The Avistar Editions
The Avistar C3 Communicator™ solution and the Avistar C3 Unified™ solution editions are available through Avistar’s channel partners worldwide and priced to fit the need of small, medium and large-sized business. These editions allow businesses to buy what they need, when they need it, and start at $199* per seat.
· Avistar C3 Communicator™- Standalone Edition offers mission-critical features:
o An advanced visual communications interface that provides users with a primary “buddy list” window to initiate and receive video calls and a secondary video “session” window that is used only during active calls, all while providing industry leading call controls and 720p/30 video resolution.
· Avistar C3 Communicator™- Standalone Pro Edition provides true mobility:
o It includes an integrated SIP and firewall traversal server in addition to the endpoint capabilities of the standalone application. Using the Pro edition, remote or home-based users do not need a VPN to conduct video calls, while leveraging the follow me – find me features of the SIP registrar.
· Avistar C3 Communicator™- Business Edition simplifies multiparty videoconferencing:
o Delivering a high quality, simple to use multiparty desktop visual communications experience by including the Avistar C3 Conference™ solution. Featuring full transcoding and transrating, the Avistar C3 Conference™ solution makes multiparty videoconferences simple to set up, use and manage.
· Avistar C3 Unified™- Microsoft OCS Edition is economical, scalable and interoperable videoconferencing:
o The solution plugs into Microsoft OCS and provides immediate value by delivering a fully interoperable desktop visual communications experience to the end user. This ensures direct connectivity with room solutions while providing a rich user experience with advanced call controls such as hold, resume, transfer, merge, full screen and PIP mode. This helps to lower OCS video costs while delivering a more productive end-user experience.
· Avistar C3 Unified™- Microsoft OCS Pro Edition provides a ubiquitous user experience:
o It includes an integrated SIP and firewall traversal server in addition to the endpoint capabilities of the base application. Using the Pro edition, remote or home-based users do not need a VPN to conduct video calls, while leveraging the follow me – find me features of the SIP registrar.
· Avistar C3 Unified™- Microsoft OCS Business Edition offers multiparty conferencing made simple and economical:
o Featuring full transcoding and transrating, the Avistar C3 Conference™ solution makes multiparty videoconferences simple to set up, use and manage, while providing continuous presence multiparty video communications on the OCS platform.
* Example pricing for Avistar C3 Communicator™ - Standalone Edition
About VoiceCon©
Now in its 20th year, VoiceCon© is the leading conference and exhibition for enterprise IP Telephony, Converged Networks and Unified Communications in North America. VoiceCon© brings corporate IT decision makers together with the industry’s vendors, analysts and consultants to focus on the issues central to enterprise networks and communications. In 2009, VoiceCon Orlando was named one of Tradeshow Week's Fastest 50, a distinguished award recognizing the fastest-growing tradeshows. 2009 is the third time since 2005 that VoiceCon has received this prestigious award. VoiceCon also has launched No Jitter, (http://www.nojitter.com/), providing daily blogging and analysis of enterprise communications, and it also serves the community with a weekly email newsletter -- VoiceCon eNews (http://www.voicecon.com/enews) -- the VoiceCon Webinar Series and Virtual Events. For more information, visit http://www.voicecon.com/.
About Avistar Communications Corporation
Avistar (AVSR.PK) is an innovation leader in the unified visual communications industry, providing proven business-class desktop videoconferencing technology. Avistar's installations include more than 100,000 committed desktop seats worldwide, bringing together business users anytime and anyplace. Companies such as IBM, LifeSize, Logitech, Paradial and Zultys use Avistar technology to power their unified communications solutions. Avistar also works with leading channel partners and resellers including AVI-SPL, CityIS, Fontel, Jenne and Media Plus in more than 40 countries. For more information, please visit www.avistar.com.
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Avistar, the Avistar logo, Avistar C3, Avistar C3 Communicator, Avistar C3 Conference and Avistar C3 Unified are trademarks or registered trademarks of Avistar Communications Corporation. Microsoft is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. All other names used are the trademarks of their respective owners.
Contact:
Angela Smith
Avistar Communications
+1.650-525-3388
asmith@avistar.com
Margaret Bonilla
Birnbach Communications for Avistar
+1.603-548-0693
mbonilla@birnbachcom.com
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