Avistar Showcases Industry’s Most Comprehensive Suite of Desktop Videoconferencing Solutions at Enterprise Connect Booth #1031

San Mateo, Calif., February 28, 2011 – Avistar Communications Corporation (www.avistar.com), a leader in unified visual communications solutions, will showcase the industry’s most comprehensive suite of desktop videoconferencing solutions at Enterprise Connect 2011, in Orlando, Florida from February 28 – March 2, 2011 at the Gaylord Palms Convention Center. From its all-software approach to its next-generation bandwidth management technology, Avistar (booth #1031) has accomplished what competitors still struggle to address: providing high quality, standards-based desktop videoconferencing capability that enhances desktop collaboration, fuels adoption of unified communications (UC), and operates seamlessly in virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), cloud and physical environments.

According to Stephen Epstein, CMO of Avistar, “Companies have emerged from the last three years understanding the power and productivity of desktop videoconferencing; they also know about a host of technological advances such as UC, VDI and cloud computing that they want to leverage to improve productivity and desktop collaboration while optimizing resources and controlling growth. For our business users as well as our business partners, Avistar’s standards-based desktop videoconferencing technology is a proven, driving force connecting many of these latest advances in improving communication, productivity and workflow.”

Designed for business users and OEM partners, highlighted demos include:

• The Avistar C3 Unified™ for Microsoft Lync solution enables Microsoft Lync users to enjoy a feature-rich desktop videoconferencing experience that supports industry standards and leverages and extends UC features found within Microsoft Lync, while promoting greater UC adoption.
• The Avistar C3 Conference™ for IBM Lotus Sametime solution provides Lotus Sametime users the ability to conduct continuous presence multiparty videoconferences and connect with standards-based third-party room systems at a fraction of the cost of traditional hardware-based MCU solutions.
• The Avistar C3 Integrator™ solution enables the Avistar C3™ all-software platform to work seamlessly within virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI) or on thin terminals without affecting network performance and/or server scalability.
• The Avistar C3 Communicator™ solution is an all-software videoconferencing application that end users can utilize on their desktops or laptops. Available in four versions, from entry level to power user, the Avistar C3 Communicator™ solution offers multiparty capabilities, advanced bandwidth management and policy administration.

“Enterprise Connect is all about communications transforming business, and Avistar is a prime example of next generation technology and visual communications, which results in scalable, manageable and economical desktop videoconferencing support, in any environment, anywhere, anytime,” said Epstein. “A recent study by Frost & Sullivan indicates that C-level execs are more aware of videoconferencing applications and tools than web conferencing and audio conferencing, in spite of the fact that the latter two have been around much longer. By tapping into the industry’s richest portfolio of desktop videoconferencing solutions at Avistar, business users can secure tools that help them make smarter, better, and more collaborative decisions, and our partners are equipped with award-winning solutions that are easy to deploy, highly scalable and interoperable, and competitively priced.”

About Avistar Communications Corporation

Avistar (AVSR.PK) delivers the industry’s most advanced and proven desktop videoconferencing capabilities to technology partners and end users worldwide. Many leading technology firms such as IBM, LifeSize, and Logitech choose Avistar’s modular software technology to power their unified communications solutions because it is a more flexible, efficient and smarter alternative. Avistar’s innovative software-only, fully virtualized and bandwidth managed technology solves all the major infrastructure and user challenges associated with enabling video communications between individual employees and/or teams throughout an organization. Companies across a wide variety of industries depend on Avistar’s desktop videoconferencing solutions for everyday business communications with deployments ranging in size from 30 to 35,000 users. To learn more about Avistar’s industrial, scalable and economical desktop videoconferencing technology, please visit www.avistar.com.

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