Avistar Announces New Video Call Reporting Software; Version 2.0 Enables Customers To Easily Track Call Patterns and Allocate Resources.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 16, 2000 Avistar Communications Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : 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 ), the enterprise video company, today released Avistar Call Reporting 2.0, offering its networked video customers the ability to monitor video call traffic patterns and to allocate system resources (1) In a computer system, system resources are the components that provide its inherent capabilities and contribute to its overall performance. System memory, cache memory, hard disk space, IRQs and DMA channels are examples. effectively. The products are provided by Avistar Systems Corporation, 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 Communications Corporation. Avistar provides a complete 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. -- Avistar's VOS An operating system used in Stratus computers. FTX is Stratus' Unix operating system. (TM) software -- and a platform of networked video products which deliver high-quality, interactive video calling, content creation and publishing, broadcast origination, video-on-demand and integrated data sharing The ability to share the same data resource with multiple applications or users. It implies that the data are stored in one or more servers in the network and that there is some software locking mechanism that prevents the same set of data from being changed by two people at the same time. . Call Reporting 2.0 is a Web-based system that lets business managers and administrators extract enterprise-wide video usage and call statistics from an Avistar networked video system. The new system provides standardized and customizable reports that analyze video usage data logged centrally by the VOS(TM) software, giving customers a clear understanding of video collaboration patterns between their various groups of users and locations worldwide. In addition, the new system permits administrators to analyze both availability and demand on various infrastructure components, allowing them to balance the load for optimum performance. "We intend to make our VOS(TM) enterprise software the open standard for high-quality video communications in the corporate market," said Jim Hughes Avistar Communications Corporation Avistar develops, markets and supports video-enabled communications networks, which are helping transform how people collaborate. The Avistar product line includes a seamless, integrated suite of video and data collaboration See data conferencing. applications, all managed by Avistar's VOS(TM) video operating system. From a desktop, the system delivers high-quality interactive video calling, content creation and publishing, broadcast video, video-on-demand, and integrated data sharing. Based on an open software platform and leveraging video, telephony and Internet networking standards, the Avistar network is scalable, reliable, cost effective, easy to use and designed to evolve with changing technologies. Avistar Communications Corporation is headquartered in Redwood Shores, Calif., with 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 , Dallas and London. Avistar Systems Corporation and 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, . are wholly owned subsidiaries of Avistar Communications Corporation. Collaboration Properties develops and holds patents on a wide range of networked video software and hardware. For more information on Avistar, visit www.avistar.com. Forward-Looking Statements This news release contains forward-looking statements, including statements concerning product development plans. Such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially, including such factors, among others, as the impact of competitive products and pricing, the timely development and market acceptance of new products, the ability to raise capital, the mix between domestic and international sales, manufacturing and cost of Avistar's products, dependence on collaborative partners, the enforcement of intellectual property rights, and uncertainties relating to sole source suppliers, production efficiencies and technological approaches. Note to Editors: Avistar, VOS, the Avistar logo, and Avistar Systems are trademarks or registered trademarks of Avistar Communications Corporation. All other names used are the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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