Avistar Systems Extends Networked Video Capabilities With New Software Release.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 18, 1999-- Version 5.0 Integrates Video Conferencing See videoconferencing. (communications) video conferencing - A discussion between two or more groups of people who are in different places but can see and hear each other using electronic communications. with Video Publishing, On-Demand Viewing and Broadcast Streaming Avistar Systems today announced a major new release of its networked video client and server software that delivers groundbreaking video communication advances. The new version 5.0 software, available immediately, extends Avistar's networked architecture to offer the first seamless integration An addition of a new application, routine or device that works smoothly with the existing system. It implies that the new feature or program can be installed and used without problems. Contrast with "transparent," which implies that there is no discernible change after installation. of all the major forms of video communication in a single easy-to-use enterprise solution. With this new release, Avistar(TM) users can participate in real-time multi-party video calls, access video on demand, create and publish video mail, and view broadcast video streams from their desktops. This new Avistar software combines the video publishing, messaging, conference recording and retrieval capabilities of the Avistar Media Server with the TV-quality video conferencing, integrated data collaboration See data conferencing. and broadcast access that Avistar already delivers to desktops and meeting rooms. With an Avistar Media Server as part of the network, all Avistar users can create and publish video from their desktops for storage in high-quality MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). format and on-demand playback. By simply upgrading Avistar clients and network switches to the new 5.0 software release, current users can now access Avistar Media Servers to record themselves or up to four parties in a video conference with a single button-click from the same interface used to control video calls. The video record of the conference can then be retrieved for on-demand viewing by a single user or as part of a multi-party video conference. Published videos, video messages, and recorded conferences stored on the Avistar Media Server can also be exported for conversion and streaming distribution to any networked user. Internet video Video material obtained from the Internet. It may refer to streaming video from real time broadcasts, streaming archival material or downloading video files for watching later, all of which are viewed on the computer. can be captured and cached on the Media Server for playback across the Avistar network. Recorded video can be digitally transferred between geographically dispersed dis·perse v. dis·persed, dis·pers·ing, dis·pers·es v.tr. 1. a. To drive off or scatter in different directions: The police dispersed the crowd. b. Media Servers or viewed over dial-up H.320 linkow able to record daily morning meetings involving traders and analysts who join by video from their desktops to discuss markets and plot strategies. Those critical meetres involving simultaneous real-time multipoint conferencing Same as teleconferencing. This is a rather redundant phrase, because conferencing implies three or more participants, rather than point-to-point between two people. , broadcast integration, and video archival. tionize the way business is done," said R. Stephen Heinrichs, Avistar's Chairman. "This new release from Avistar expands the range of communication solutions availand retrieval features, we look forward to equipping our colleagues with powerful video-centric knowledge manetworks that let every user create video content major advances with a simple software upgrade, we are highlighting the openness and extensibility of the Avistar TCP/IP-based design." Avistar Systems Corporation Avistar Systems Corporation is the leading networked video communication company in the world and is delivering its fifth-generation suite of products. Avistar's cross-platform networked video collaboration system delivers the highest quality, most functional, most open video communication solution for the enterprise, all at the lowest total cost of ownership. Avistar is headquartered in Palo Alto, California “Palo Alto” redirects here. For other uses, see Palo Alto (disambiguation). Palo Alto (IPA: /ˌpæloʊˈʔæltoʊ/, from Spanish: palo: "stick" and alto: "high", i.e. , 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. For more information on Avistar, visit www.avistar.com. Note to Editors: Avistar, the Avistar logo, Avistar Systems, Shareboard, and World on the Desktop are trademarks or registered trademarks of Avistar Systems Corporation. All other names used are the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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