SAN MATEO, Calif., Oct. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Avistar Communications Corporation (http://www.avistar.com) (Nasdaq: ASVR) announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) has named Avistar's C3 Desktop Videoconferencing and Collaboration solution as a recipient of a 2008 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award presented by INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine.

Avistar C3, the industry's leading desktop videoconferencing solution, earned the INTERNET TELEPHONY award for the deployment at California State University, Fresno's Lyles Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Lyles Center staff, administrators and faculty can now meet face-to-face and collaborate through multi-party calls connected with a single click. The Lyles Center also extended videoconferencing capabilities to several programs with off-campus operations.

"Recognition by INTERNET TELEPHONY is testimony to the tremendous value Avistar C3's high-quality desktop videoconferencing provides to organizations. In addition to cost savings from reduced travel expenses and increased productivity, desktop videoconferencing allows for a distributed workforce without losing the person-to-person interactions that are key to teamwork and innovation," said Simon Moss, CEO, Avistar.

"We are proud to present Avistar with a 2008 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award. C3 Desktop Videoconferencing and Collaboration has proven its outstanding contribution to IP communications and delivers winning solutions for its customers," indicated Rich Tehrani, Editor-in-Chief, INTERNET TELEPHONY.

Greg Galitzine, Editorial Director, INTERNET TELEPHONY, added, "Taking risks to advance VoIP technology and provide real solutions has earned Avistar recognition from the editors of INTERNET TELEPHONY and an INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award. C3 Desktop Videoconferencing and Collaboration has excelled in delivering solutions, and its customers are extremely pleased and have offered their testaments of support."

The 2008 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award winners have been published in the October 2008 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine, http://www.itmag.com.

For more information, please visit http://www.tmcnet.com.

About Avistar Communications Corp.

Avistar (Nasdaq: AVSR) creates technology that provides the missing critical element in unified communications: bringing people in organizations face-to-face, through enhanced communications, for true collaboration anytime, anyplace. Its latest product, Avistar C3, draws on more than a decade of market experience to deliver a single-click desktop videoconferencing and collaboration experience that moves business communications into a new era. Available as a stand-alone solution, or integrated with existing unified communications software from other vendors, Avistar C3 provides users instant messaging-style ability to initiate video communications across and outside the enterprise. Patent protected dynamic bandwidth management enables thousands of users to access desktop videoconferencing, VoIP and streaming media, without requiring substantial new network investment or impairing network performance.

Avistar's desktop videoconferencing and collaboration installations are among the world's largest, including more than 18,000 seats sold in more than 40 countries. Clients report as much as a 20 percent reduction in travel expense and carbon emissions, increases in productivity and immeasurably improved relationship building within their organizations, as well as with suppliers and customers. Avistar holds a portfolio of 83 patents for inventions in video and network technology and licenses IP to videoconferencing, rich-media services, public networking and related industries. Current licensees include IBM Corporation, Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI), Polycom, Inc., Tandberg ASA, Radvision Ltd., LifeSize Communications, Inc. and Emblaze-VCON. For more information, visit http://www.avistar.com.

About INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine

INTERNET TELEPHONY has been the VoIP Authority since 1998(TM). Since the first issue in February of 1998, INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has been providing unbiased views of the complicated converged communications space. INTERNET TELEPHONY offers rich content from solutions-focused editorial content to reviews on products and services from TMC Labs. INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has a circulation of 225,000 including pass-along readers. For more information please visit http://www.itmag.com.

About TMC

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes Customer Inter@ction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY (http://www.tmcnet.com/cis), Unified Communications (http://www.tmcnet.com/unified-communications/Default.aspx), and IMS Magazine (http://www.tmcnet.com/ims/). TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 5,200 most visited Web sites in the world by alexa.com*, TMCnet serves three million unique visitors each month. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO (http://www.itexpo.com), and Call Center 2.0 Conference (http://www.tmcnet.com/voip/conference/call-center) and Green Technology World Conference (www.tmcnet.com/green/green-technology-world-conference/07/conferences.htm). For more information about TMC, visit http://www.tmcnet.com. (*alexa.com is an amazon.com company that ranks Web sites by their traffic levels. Neither alexa.com nor amazon.com is affiliated with TMCnet.) For more information about TMC, visit http://www.tmcnet.com.

SOURCE Avistar Communications Corporation