First Virtual Communications Expands Global Presence with Japanese Subsidiary.Business Editors SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif. & TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 12, 2001 Local Support and Expertise to Provide IP-based Rich Media Communications Solutions and Business Benefits to Japanese Customers and Partners First Virtual Communications (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 : FVCX), a leading provider of integrated rich media communications solutions for IP and other networks, today announced the establishment of its Japanese subsidiary, First Virtual Communications Japan KK headquartered in Tokyo. To lead First Virtual Japan, First Virtual has appointed Shigeru Ota as managing director. Under Mr. Ota's leadership, First Virtual Japan will address the growing market demand for IP services and rich media communications solutions in Japan. "There is a significant market for IP services in the Asia Pacific region and especially in Japan," said Ralph Ungermann, chairman of First Virtual Communications. "The official opening of our Japan office symbolizes the strength of our commitment to work with local partners to deliver rich media communications solutions to Japanese businesses. Having worked with Ota-san in previous ventures, I am confident that with his leadership First Virtual Japan will play a pivotal role in the Company's near-term international growth." Mr. Ota brings with him over 30 years of experience in the technology arena, most specifically in the telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. industry. He has a superb track record including extensive relationships with key existing and potential First Virtual partners, such as NTT NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation NTT New Technology Telescope NTT National Technology Transfer, Inc NTT Name That Tune (TV game show) NTT National Tree Trust NTT Number Theoretic Transform , NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Sony, 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) and others. Mr. Ota's experience demonstrates his solid understanding of the Japanese market and its unique customer requirements. Mr. Ota is joined by local pre- and post-sales support, which will continue to grow with the business. "First Virtual Japan is dedicated to establishing close relationships with local prospects and partners, ensuring that their needs are met, and that the IP services they deploy deliver strong business results and user satisfaction throughout Japan," said Mr. Ota. "We've already established an effective partner network both locally and regionally, and we expect to further our success in Japan and other Asian-Pacific markets with this new office." To meet the growing market opportunity in both Japan and other key markets, First Virtual has teamed with over 125 partners that offer the Company's rich media solutions worldwide. In Japan, First Virtual has a strong existing partnership with Tomen, which has previously focused on the distribution of CUseeMe technology. First Virtual established a local presence in Japan to ensure that the unique needs of Japanese prospects and partners were met. First Virtual's local presence, coupled with the Company's rich media communications solutions, will provide Japanese businesses with IP services that meet the growing demands of the Japanese workforce, education environment and government agencies. The new Japanese subsidiary -- responsible for supporting, localizing, marketing and establishing sales channels -- officially opened last week. First Virtual Japan contact information is as follows: First Virtual Japan 3-41-25 Shimotakaido, Suginami-ku, Tokyo 168-0073 phone : +81-90-2623-5971 fax : +81-5374-7083 email : sota@fvc.com About First Virtual Communications First Virtual Communications is a world leader in providing easy-to-use, integrated rich media communications solutions to enterprises, service providers and portals. By enabling interactive voice, video and data collaboration See data conferencing. over IP-based networks, First Virtual provides cost-effective, integrated end-to-end solutions (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. for large-scale deployments to enterprise desktops. It also enables best of breed videoconferencing A real time video session between two or more users or between two or more locations. Although the first videoconferencing was done with traditional analog TV and satellites, inhouse room systems became popular in the early 1980s after Compression Labs pioneered digitized video systems solutions to be extended through ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. and ATM networks. The company's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , Click to Meet(TM), provides a complete framework for delivering a new generation of video-enabled web collaboration applications that address the real-time communications needs of companies worldwide. Click to Meet can be integrated seamlessly into popular enterprise messaging and collaboration environments such as Microsoft Exchange/Outlook and instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or . First Virtual serves its customers through a worldwide network of resellers and partners. Additional information about First Virtual Communications can be found on the web at www.fvc.com. All trademarks are recognized. |
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