Avistar Breaks Price/Performance Barrier For Business Video.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 4, 2003 New Multi-Channel IP Gateway Drives Down Customer Costs and Increases Call Availability Delivering Improved Scalability to Customers Avistar Communications Corporation (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 provider of enterprise video communications solutions, today announced the availability of its Multi-Channel IP Gateway, Model AG4000. Compared to Avistar's existing IP gateway, the AG4000 costs 30% less, while increasing calling capacity four-fold. In today's cost cutting environment, Avistar customers can now scale their video networks to thousands of professionals within and across organizations with a more cost-effective, easy-to-deploy video solution. Avistar's Multi-Channel IP Gateway enables fast video connectivity between Avistar users, within and across enterprises, over corporate IP networks or IP VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. networks. The AG4000 is a 4-channel IP video gateway and is Avistar's first product using the Session Initiation Protocol (protocol) Session Initiation Protocol - (SIP) A very simple text-based application-layer control protocol. It creates, modifies, and terminates sessions with one or more participants. Such sessions include Internet telephony and multimedia conferences. It is described in RFC 2543. (SIP) standard for communication between gateways. The new Avistar gateway provides business quality video, configurable QoS support, high call reliability and automatic software configuration for easy installation. "Avistar's new Multi-Channel IP Gateway is another step in building video-enabled-vBusiness -- communities that stretch beyond one corporate network," said Jerry Burnett, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Avistar. "IP-based video connectivity offers significant benefits over ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. connections as it makes widespread video adoption possible. For our customers, this new product helps lower communications costs and increase reliability at a very attractive price/performance point compared to our existing IP gateways." The Multi-Channel IP Gateway is a card that plugs directly into an Avistar switch, thus requiring no additional rack space. The unit is firmware upgradeable in the field over the Ethernet port A socket on a computer or network device for plugging in an Ethernet cable. See WAN port. allowing future enhancements to be easily implemented. It also provides outputs for audio recording, allowing Avistar customers to record outgoing calls -- a feature that solves a compliance issue for financial industry customers. The Avistar Multi-Channel IP Gateway is supported by the latest AvistarVOS(TM) Server software release, version 7.0. The AvistarVOS Server software is the core enabling technology that powers Avistar's enterprise video solutions, providing access to all video applications while supporting the network infrastructure that is necessary for enterprise-class systems. It manages the new gateway with automatic configuration, remote administration and management, configurable profiles, and automatic route selection to manage video traffic and assign routing priorities across multiple network types. The software controls the AG4000 as well as Avistar's existing H.320 (ISDN) and H.323 (IP) gateways as shared 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. for optimum system reliability and lowest overall communications cost. The new Avistar gateway is priced at $9,999 and is immediately available. For more information about Avistar's Multi-Channel IP Gateway (Model AG4000), contact Avistar at info@avistar.com. About Avistar Communications Corporation Avistar develops, markets and supports an integrated suite of video-enabled vBusiness applications, all powered by the AvistarVOS(TM) software. Avistar integrates video communications into day-to-day business process applications. From the desktop, Avistar delivers TV-quality video calling, recording, publishing, video-on-demand, broadcast, and document sharing. Founded in 1993, Avistar Communications Corporation 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. 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, ., 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, holds a broad portfolio of patents covering the AvistarVOS platform as well as multiple software and hardware video collaboration products. For more information, visit www.avistar.com. Avistar, AvistarVOS, and the Avistar logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Avistar Communications Corporation. |
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