As a result of the agreement, Fontel's resellers can now leverage a standards-based video conferencing solution to enhance their customers' business communication, improve operations and increase productivity and performance. The Avistar C3 bandwidth management enables thousands of users to access desktop videoconferencing, Voice over IP (VoIP), collaboration services and streaming media without requiring substantial new network investment or impairing network performance.
The Avistar and Fontel distributor agreement is an expansion of the two companies' partnership that began earlier this year with Fontel supplying end-point device bundles (headsets, speakerphones, web cameras) for Avistar's C3 software. Avistar's desktop and room solutions are available immediately through Fontel and its resellers.
Avistar's C3 patented technology is widely deployed and provides a rapid
return on investment. According to the head of capital markets for a leading
global bank, "Before Avistar, I was spending more than an hour a day just
riding elevators, and that's before you count the time going across town or
jumping on airplanes." Another Avistar client funds Avistar directly from its
travel budget, as the technology has significantly cut down on travel expenses
and time away from the office. For example, just by replacing 10 percent of
travel with videoconferenced meetings can result in an annual savings of
Moss concluded, "Fontel's commitment to quality and exemplary customer service, combined with Avistar's technology excellence, bodes well for customers who want a best-in-class solution that delivers significant benefits right away."
About Fontel Inc.
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About Avistar Communications Corporation
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. Bandwidth management enables thousands of users to access desktop videoconferencing, Voice over IP (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 80 patents for inventions in video and network technology and licenses IP to videoconferencing, rich-media services, public networking and related industries. Current licensees include Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI), Polycom, Inc., Tandberg ASA, Radvision Ltd. and Emblaze-VCON. For more information, visit http://www.avistar.com.
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