Avistar Receives Frost & Sullivan Award for New Product Innovation in Desktop Videoconferencing

Avistar Communications Corporation (www.avistar.com), a leader in unified visual communications solutions, announced today that it has been recognized by Frost & Sullivan with the 2011 Global New Product Innovation Award in Desktop Videoconferencing.

The Avistar C3 Integrator™ solution has been designed to deliver a scalable desktop videoconferencing experience within virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI). Avistar’s approach to detecting the VDI deployment, automatically extending its media processing capabilities to the endpoint, while its desktop videoconferencing application runs within the virtual desktop, has been recognized by Frost & Sullivan as an important innovation in the desktop videoconferencing industry. In addition, Frost & Sullivan has recognized the Avistar C3 Conference™ solution for its ability to provide on-demand multiparty conferencing capabilities within virtualized and cloud solutions.

Stephen Epstein, CMO, Avistar, said, “Avistar has long been committed to delivering reliable, scalable and secure desktop videoconferencing solutions to its enterprise clients and technology partners. Because of this, Avistar clearly recognized the technical challenges as the unified communications (UC) and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) sectors started to converge. We’ve successfully developed and subsequently deployed the industry’s leading suite of virtual visual communications solutions to enterprises globally. This success and the growing demand for virtual visual communications led Citrix to license Avistar’s technology, which in turn has been recognized by Frost & Sullivan. Our innovation and leadership in this industry is vital to our long-term growth and success. Being recognized with this award not only makes us proud of our achievements, but also it leaves us with a great sense of accomplishment.”

Rob Arnold, Senior Analyst at Frost & Sullivan, said, “VDI solutions have proven to be effective methods of centralizing business productivity and line-of-business applications. However, bandwidth and performance challenges have hampered many attempts to support real-time communications applications in VDI environments. Avistar has addressed these issues by allowing organizations to reap the operational and user benefits of both VDI and videoconferencing simultaneously.”

About Avistar Communications Corporation

Avistar (OTC: AVSR) delivers the industry’s most advanced and proven desktop videoconferencing capabilities to technology partners and end users worldwide. Many leading technology firms such as Citrix, IBM, LifeSize, and Logitech choose Avistar’s modular software technology to power their unified communications solutions because it is a more flexible, efficient and smarter alternative. Avistar’s innovative software-only, fully virtualized and bandwidth managed technology solves major infrastructure and user challenges associated with enabling video communications between individual employees and/or teams throughout an organization. Companies across a wide variety of industries depend on Avistar’s desktop videoconferencing solutions for everyday business communications with deployments ranging in size from 30 to 35,000 users. To learn more about Avistar’s industrial, scalable and economical desktop videoconferencing technology, please visit www.avistar.com.