Avistar Delivers Virtualized Desktop Videoconferencing and an "All-Software" Multiparty Videoconferencing

Avistar Communications Corporation, a leader in unified visual communications solutions, today announced three new solutions for Lotus Sametime users at IBM's Lotusphere conference. The solutions introduced at Avistar's booth #808 include:

ilink, a provider of telephony integration solutions based in Germany, is an Avistar research partner. According to Carsten Gericke, CEO, ilink, "Avistar offers a market leading, best cost-to-performance, and unequalled software-based videoconferencing architecture. ilink possesses years of integration experience with the IBM Lotus Sametime platform. At the same time ilink and Avistar have developed and integrated a powerful and cost effective 'all-software' MCU in other words seamlessly integrated with the Lotus Sametime solution. This allows users to leverage their investment in Lotus Sametime during lowering their MCU and multiparty videoconferencing costs."

Avistar is an technology leader in the unified visual communications industry, with more than 15 years of experience providing proven business-class desktop videoconferencing innovation. Avistar's solutions are used across a broad spectrum of industries with deployments ranging in size from 30-35,000 users. Avistar's technology as well helps to power solutions from IBM, LifeSize, Logitech and many other leading unified communications vendors, during delivering end-user videoconferencing solutions to some of the world's largest corporations, in more than 40 countries. For more information, please visit www.avistar.com.