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Avistar Receives Unified Communications^® Magazine’s

Product of the Year Award

Avistar C3 Communicator™ Recognized for Exceptional Innovation

San Mateo, Calif., April 14, 2010 — Avistar Communications Inc. (www.avistar.com) announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC®) has named the Avistar C3 Communicator™ solution a recipient of its 2009 Unified Communications magazine Product of the Year Award. 

“This is a tremendous recognition of both the value of the Avistar C3 Communicator™ solution and desktop videoconferencing,” said Stephen Epstein, Chief Marketing Officer, Avistar. “This recognizes the tremendous return on investment that Avistar customers achieve in increased productivity, improved revenue generation and reduced travel budgets.”

The Avistar C3 Communicator™ solution allows users to experience desktop visual communications at its best. It delivers a simple-to-use, quick-to-deploy and easy-to-maintain business-class desktop videoconferencing experience that leverages current infrastructure and networks.

The product combines a familiar IM buddy list interface with Avistar’s patent-protected video software technology to initiate and receive video calls easily.  Industry standards such as H.264 allow users to connect to endpoints and video room solutions up to HD resolutions – 720p.

“It is an honor to grant Avistar with a 2009 Product of the Year Award for its Avistar C3 Communicator™ solution. Avistar has proven their dedication to quality and excellence while supporting the needs in the marketplace,” stated Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. 

A complete list of Product of the Year Award winners will be published in the March/April 2010 issue of Unified Communications magazine, www.uc-mag.com.  

About Unified Communications magazine

Launched in July 2007, Unified Communications magazine is devoted to educating enterprise decision makers on why and how they need to deploy unified communications solutions. For more information, please visit www.uc-mag.com.

About TMC

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) is a global, integrated media company helping clients build communities in print, in person and online. For more information, visit www.tmcnet.com.

About Avistar Communications Corporation

Avistar (AVSR.PK) is an innovation leader in the unified visual communications industry, with more than 15 years of experience providing proven business-class desktop videoconferencing technology. Avistar’s solutions are used across a broad spectrum of industries with deployments ranging in size from 30-30,000 users. Avistar’s technology also helps to power solutions from IBM, LifeSize, Logitech and many other leading unified communications vendors. Avistar works with leading channel partners and resellers including AVI-SPL, CityIS, Fontel, Jenne, Media Plus and SCH/SCC in more than 40 countries. For more information, visit www.avistar.com.

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Avistar, the Avistar logo, Avistar C3 and Avistar C3 Communicator are trademarks or registered trademarks of Avistar Communications Corporation.  All other names used are the trademarks of their respective owners.

Avistar Contact

Angela Smith

650-525-3388

asmith@avistar.com

Margaret Bonilla

Birnbach Communications for Avistar

603-548-0693

mbonilla@birnbachcom.com

TMC Contact:                                                                         

Jan Pierret                                                                               

203-852-6800, ext. 228

jpierret@tmcnet.com