With an eye toward broadening and deepening access to its pioneering resources, the Lyles Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at California State University, Fresno, has just completed the deployment of a cutting-edge Avistar Communications video system.

?This is a really exciting way for us to use technology as a conduit for instant, high-quality communications,? said Timothy M. Stearns, the Lyles Center's director and a professor of entrepreneurship at California State University's Craig School of Business. ?We see ourselves as a resource for the community within the university and also as a bridge that links the university to people and programs beyond. Video is a great means of deepening that contact.?

The deployment provides Avistar desktop video access to board members, key university officials and stakeholders based outside the Fresno State campus. Stearns said the new system?which enables video calling, conferencing and data sharing??would interest anyone with any desire to use innovative technology as a means to optimal collaboration and decision-making.?

Founded in 2003, the Lyles Center is the leading regional hub for students and community members pursuing entrepreneurial goals. With a range of programs tailored for all age groups, the center provides strategic planning and support services in areas including intellectual property management, business plan review and evaluation, technology development and commercialization, and market and technology assessment.

?It's gratifying to see Avistar video at work in this context, as a means to support visual interaction among leaders of these regional programs,? said Gerald J. Burnett, president and CEO. ?As pioneers in bringing video technology to the enterprise, we have a special appreciation for the Lyles Center's entrepreneurial mission and vision.?

Avistar Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:AVSR) is an innovative provider of collaborative desktop video applications, including one-to-one and multi-party video calling, real-time data sharing, large-scale broadcasting and recording and publishing of content accessible via e-mail, archive or the Web.

Deployed primarily at Fortune 500 global financial services companies, Avistar video solutions enhance both the quality and efficiency of communications; foster teamwork among mobile, distributed and outsourced workers; and provide a ?green? alternative to unnecessary, time-consuming and costly business travel.

?We try constantly to be forward thinking, always on the lookout for ways to take entrepreneurship to the next level,? said Stearns, who is the Coleman Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies. ?The availability of ?face-to-face' video opens up all kinds of new doors. It adds a great new dimension.?

For more information about the Lyles Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at California State University, Fresno, please visit www.lylescenter.com.

Details about Avistar video solutions are available at www.avistar.com. A demonstration of Avistar's full suite of video capabilities is available at www.avistar.com/assets/media/Avistar_Communications_1003.wmv.

About Avistar Communications Corporation

Avistar Communications Corporation develops, markets and supports a video over-IP collaboration platform for the enterprise, all powered by the AvistarVOS? 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 San Mateo, California, with offices in New York and London. Avistar's technology is used in more than 40 countries.

Collaboration Properties, Inc. (CPI) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Avistar Communications Corporation. 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 76 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., Tandberg ASA and Emblaze-VCON.

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