Gary Stager Joins Avistar as Vice President of Engineering.REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. -- Avistar Communications Corp. (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 ), a desktop video collaboration platform An emerging category of computer software, collaboration platforms are unified electronic platforms that support synchronous and asynchronous communication through a variety of devices and channels. provider, today announced that Gary Stager has joined the company as vice president of engineering. With more than 20 years' experience managing global engineering and product development organizations, Stager will help define, develop and execute the company's product strategy. With his extensive experience developing digital media and related applications at companies both large and small, Stager brings to Avistar a keen understanding of video innovation and market drivers. Prior to joining Avistar, he was senior vice president of engineering and operations for Exavio, Inc., in Santa Clara, Calif., and Beijing, China. In this position, he was responsible for the design, manufacture and support of networked storage products for digital media production and high performance computing applications. "The market for high-quality enterprise video is heating up, which makes it especially exciting to lead Avistar's engineering effort," Stager said. "By combining my experience with bringing high-performance products to market and Avistar's industry-leading video technologies, we're perfectly positioned to capitalize on this market opportunity." A graduate of the University of Florida University of Florida is the third-largest university in the United States, with 50,912 students (as of Fall 2006) and has the eighth-largest budget (nearly $1.9 billion per year). UF is home to 16 colleges and more than 150 research centers and institutes. with both electrical engineering and liberal arts degrees, Stager has also held senior management positions at Omneon Video Networks, Cisco Systems, Inc., and Convex Computer Corp (now owned by Hewlett Packard). In recent weeks Avistar has announced both a new video integration with 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) [R] Lotus[TM] Sametime[TM] 7.5 that brings one-click visual interactivity to IBM's unified collaboration platform as well as the release of AvistarVOS[TM] Client 9.0, a new video-over-IP software endpoint that increases video communications' portability, accessibility and affordability. About Avistar Communications Corporation Avistar Communications Corporation develops, markets, and supports a video collaboration platform for the enterprise, all powered by the AvistarVOS[TM] software. From the desktop, Avistar delivers business-quality video calling, recording, publishing to web and e-mails, video-on-demand, broadcast origination and distribution, and document sharing. Avistar video-enables business processes by integrating visual communications into the daily workflow and connecting communities of users within and across enterprises. Founded in 1993, Avistar 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 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. Avistar's technology is used in more than 35 countries. 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, . (CPI (1) (Characters Per Inch) The measurement of the density of characters per inch on tape or paper. A printer's CPI button switches character pitch. (2) (Counts Per I ), 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, was founded in 1997. CPI develops patents for presence-based interactions, wireless communications, desktop video, recorded and live media at the desktop, multimedia documents, data sharing, and a service-rich video network architecture. It holds a current portfolio of 74 patents for inventions in the primary areas of video and network technology. CPI offers licenses to its patent portfolio and Avistar's video-enabling technologies to companies in the video conferencing, rich-media services, public networking, and related industries. Current licensees include Sony Corporation, Polycom, Inc., and Emblaze-VCON. Copyright (c) 2006 Avistar Communications Corporation. All rights reserved. Avistar, AvistarVOS[TM], and the Avistar logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Avistar Communications Corporation. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. |
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