Avistar CTO Dr. Chris Lauwers to Speak at VoiceCon on Quality of Service, November 2.Tools to Manage Bandwidth to be Discussed in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden ; Avistar Exhibiting at Booth 620 SAN FRANCISCO -- Dr. Chris Lauwers, chief technology officer at Avistar Communications Corporation (www.avistar.com), a leader in unified visual communications solutions, will be speaking on a panel at VoiceCon San Francisco 2009. The panel, "Quality of Service (QoS) & Quality of Experience (QoE): Ensuring Voice (and other Applications') Performance," is scheduled for 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 2 in Room 132 at the Moscone North Convention Center. Dr. Lauwers, who holds an M.S. and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering electrical engineering: see engineering. electrical engineering Branch of engineering concerned with the practical applications of electricity in all its forms, including those of electronics. and computer science from Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. and is a recognized expert in applications-based bandwidth management Controlling the traffic flow in a network. See bandwidth manager. , will participate in a discussion designed to help enterprise users understand network and infrastructure challenges associated with running voice, video, and data applications that require varying levels of priority at different times, while still ensuring QoS and QoE. The panel will be moderated by John Bartlett Noun 1. John Bartlett - United States publisher and editor who compiled a book of familiar quotations (1820-1905) Bartlett , Principal, NetForecast, a leading authority on real-time traffic, application performance and QoS techniques. "Because of the real-time requirements, Unified Communications can put a significant amount of strain on enterprise IP networks and their associated infrastructure," said Dr. Lauwers. "For organizations to confidently deploy Unified Communications as an enterprise technology, especially when used with visual communications, administrators need the necessary tools and technology to effectively manage the associated infrastructure and overhead. Without such tools and advance planning, administrators will have a difficult time managing their network infrastructure while trying to ensure they can meet their end users expectations with regard to quality of experience and service." About Avistar Communications Corporation Avistar (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 .PK) is an innovation leader in the unified visual communications industry, providing proven business-class desktop videoconferencing technology. Avistar's installations include more than 100,000 committed desktop seats worldwide, bringing together business users anytime and anyplace. Companies such as 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) , LifeSize, Logitech, Polycom and Sony use Avistar technology to power their unified communications solutions. Avistar also works with leading channel partners and resellers including AVI-SPL, CityIS, ESCO ESCO Energy Service Company ESCO Estonian Shipping Company ESCO Esfahan Steel Company (Iran) ESCO Electric Steel Company, Inc. ESCO Eastern Sydney Chamber Orchestra (Australia) , Fontel, Datamart and Jenne in more than 40 countries. For more information, please visit www.avistar.com. Photos/Multimedia Gallery Available: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/mmg.cgi?eid=6086753&lang=en |
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