Avistar Announces New Location for its London Office.LONDON & REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. -- Avistar Communications Corp. (Nasdaq:AVSR (Audio Visual Speech Recognition) Using lip reading software to enhance speech recognition. In noisy environments where a camera can be included, AVSR improves the computer's ability to recognize the speaker's words by visually tracking lip movement and ), a desktop video collaboration platform An emerging category of computer software, collaboration platforms are unified electronic platforms that support synchronous and asynchronous communication through a variety of devices and channels. provider, today announced that its United Kingdom office has moved to a new London New London, city (1990 pop. 24,540), New London co., SE Conn., on the Thames River near its mouth on Long Island Sound; laid out 1646 by John Winthrop, inc. 1784. location reflecting the company's expanding commitment to markets in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. "We've been really excited by the opportunities for growth and evolution of our already strong customer base in the UK and beyond," said Doug Cullen, Avistar's managing director of EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) Refers to that region of the world. For example, one might see products packaged differently for the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific markets. . "Video collaboration is an essential business tool in the context of a global economy. The ability to connect and interact visually from the desktop provides that critical edge enabling quick, effective decision-making in an increasingly competitive, distributed world." Avistar's international revenue, consisting of sales to customers with operations principally in Western Europe Western Europe The countries of western Europe, especially those that are allied with the United States and Canada in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (established 1949 and usually known as NATO). and Asia, comprised 63 percent of its sales during 2005. The company derived 23 percent of its revenue from accounts based in the United Kingdom alone last year. The AvistarVOS(TM) video operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. delivers the power of face-to-face visual communications to the enterprise. Whether in the context of a one-to-one or multi-party video call, a company-wide interactive broadcast presentation in a real-time or pre-recorded context, Avistar enables businesses to communicate more effectively by leveraging the power of video. Within many of the world's leading financial institutions, business units such as Equities, Fixed Income, and Foreign Exchange (FX) are using Avistar to deliver "real-time" analysis, recommendations and commentary, and to quickly collaborate on and respond to market opportunities. These organizations are on the leading edge of communications, deploying video to speed and improve complex decision-making, build trust-based relationships, and increase productivity. Additionally, through integrations with business applications such as the Microsoft Office suite and IBM Workplace Managed Client(TM), users can place presence-based video calls from within e-mail, calendars, and documents, allowing them to utilize video in the context of their work environment. To continue to support the need for easier-to-use, more effective collaboration tools, Avistar has also developed an integration -- to be released during the Fall of 2006 -- with IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Lotus(R) Sametime(R) 7.5, IBM's next-generation instant messaging and web conferencing solution. This integration provides users with "click-to-call" capabilities, delivering instant two-way and multi-party video conferencing from a video presence-enabled "buddy list." A demonstration of this integration was recently shown in a keynote presentation given on May 15 at the IBM Lotus Technical Forum 2006 in Karlsruhe, Germany. Avistar's new regional sales and support office is located at the corner of Old Broad and New Broad streets in the City of London. An Open House will take place at the 63-64 New Broad Street location on May 18, 2006. For further information, contact Doug Cullen at 44.207.382.1550. About Avistar Communications Corporation Avistar Communications Corporation develops, markets, and supports a video collaboration platform for the enterprise, all powered by the AvistarVOS(TM) software. From the desktop, Avistar delivers business-quality video calling, recording, publishing to web and e-mails, video-on-demand, broadcast origination and distribution, and document sharing. Avistar video-enables business processes by integrating visual communications into the daily workflow and connecting communities of users within and across enterprises. Founded in 1993, Avistar is headquartered in Redwood Shores, California Redwood Shores is an upscale and desirable [1] waterfront neighborhood on the San Francisco Peninsula in California. It is located on the eastern edge of Belmont, but is actually part of incorporated Redwood City. , with sales offices in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and London. Avistar's technology is used in more than 35 countries. Collaboration Properties, Inc Collaboration Properties, Inc. (CPI) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Avistar Communications Corporation. It holds US and foreign patents in the primary areas of presence-based interactions, desktop video, recorded and live media at the desktop, multimedia documents, data sharing, . (CPI (1) (Characters Per Inch) The measurement of the density of characters per inch on tape or paper. A printer's CPI button switches character pitch. (2) (Counts Per I ), a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Avistar, holds a current portfolio of 70 patents for inventions in the primary areas of video and network technology. CPI pursues patents for presence-based interactions, desktop video, recorded and live media at the desktop, multimedia documents, data sharing, and a rich-service network video architecture to support Avistar's product suite and customers. CPI offers licenses to its patent portfolio and Avistar's video-enabling technologies to companies in the video conferencing, rich-media services, public networking, and related industries. For more information, visit www.avistar.com. Copyright (c) 2006 Avistar Communications Corporation. All rights reserved. Avistar, AvistarVOS, and the Avistar logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Avistar Communications Corporation. Other company, product or service names may be trademarks or service marks of others. |
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