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Avistar Announces Industry’s First Comprehensive “All-Software” Turnkey Videoconferencing Infrastructure

Avistar Solutions on Display at InfoComm Booth N2313

San Mateo, Calif., June 9, 2010 – Avistar Communications Corporation (www.avistar.com), a leader in unified visual communications solutions, today announced the launch of its business pro edition, the industry’s first comprehensive “all-software” turnkey videoconferencing infrastructure, leapfrogging other hardware-based solutions on the market today with its easy-to-purchase, easy-to-deploy and easy-to-use approach.

Available together with Avistar’s award-winning desktop visual communication endpoints, Avistar’s business pro edition delivers fully scalable endpoint registration and H.323 interoperability via the Avistar C3 Call Control™, next-generation bandwidth management via the Avistar C3 Command™, economical multiparty calling via the Avistar C3 Conference™ and ubiquitous communications via the Avistar C3 Tunnel™ firewall traversal solutions. Delivered as an all-software and fully comprehensive videoconferencing infrastructure, Avistar’s business pro edition is designed for corporate clients, distributors and OEM partners alike.

The business pro edition is now offered with the following award-winning Avistar endpoints:

·        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 - all while leveraging current infrastructure and networks.

·        The Avistar C3 Unified™ - Microsoft OCS Edition allows OCS users to benefit from an integrated Microsoft desktop environment while leveraging a feature-rich Avistar visual communications experience. It also offers cost-effective interoperability with room solutions through industry standards, enhanced scalability and continuous presence multiparty calling.

·        The Avistar C3 Media Engine™ solution is an embeddable communications component that delivers a high quality desktop audio and videoconferencing experience from any software application.

“Delivered as an all-software solution with a price point as much as 77 percent less expensive than most of our competitors, Avistar’s business pro edition provides for substantially faster returns on investment and allows our clients to deploy an industry-leading videoconferencing infrastructure, using spare server capacity and easily fitting into their IT operational model,” said Stephen Epstein, CMO, Avistar. “It also provides administrators the control to manage bandwidth consumption, leverage current IT investments and deliver videoconferencing features that will help their business users be more productive.

“In sum, Avistar’s business pro edition delivers unparalleled price/performance, interoperability, ubiquity, resource management and scalability. This will help revolutionize the way videoconferencing infrastructures are deployed and managed, while leading to great operational savings,” Epstein said.

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, Fontel, Jenne, Media Plus, SCH/SCC and Sotel in more than 40 countries. For more information, please visit www.avistar.com.

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Contact:

Angela Smith

Avistar

650-525-3388                

asmith@avistar.com

Margaret Bonilla

Birnbach Communications for Avistar

603-548-0693

mbonilla@birnbachcom.com