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On Display at SIA Exhibit: New Integration of Avistar Video With IBM Lotus Sametime 7.5 Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing Solution; Video Capability Heightens Collaboration for Financial Services Institutions

Posted on: Monday, 19 June 2006, 09:00 CDT

Avistar Communications Corp. (NASDAQ:AVSR), a video collaboration platform provider, will be participating in the Securities Industry Association (SIA) Technology Management Exhibit from June 20-22 at the Hilton New York to demonstrate how financial services firms are using the power of visual communications to address challenges such as maintaining business continuity, making timely and effective decisions and managing complex dispersed relationships in today's increasingly global environment.

On display at booth #1520, Avistar will also showcase a new presence-based integration with IBM Lotus(R) Sametime(R) 7.5, IBM's new instant messaging and web conferencing solution. With availability projected for Fall 2006, this integration will enable users to place one-to-one or multi-party video calls from the Lotus Sametime buddy list. Similar video communications capability has also been incorporated into the IBM Workplace Managed Client(TM) platform, and extended to widely used Microsoft Office applications such as Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint.

"Effective collaboration is a key to success in today's fluid, fast-paced, global financial services industry," said Gerald J. Burnett, Chairman and CEO at Avistar. "Video connectivity not only speeds, deepens and clarifies communications, it also helps ensure business continuity in a world fraught with potential disruptions, including pandemics, transit strikes and severe weather conditions."

Visitors to Avistar's exhibit will see how the AvistarVOS(TM), Avistar's pioneering high-quality video operating system, equips many of the world's leading financial services institutions with interactive "face-to-face" accessibility to speed and enhance key business processes. Whether it's morning meetings, research updates from internal analysts or broadcast meetings to discuss developing information that impacts markets, Avistar facilitates communications that cultivates trust and deepens understanding.

Video-enabling workers at the desktop smoothes the execution of complex collaborative negotiations across time zones and cultural barriers; facilitates the exchange and leveraging of in-house expertise and research; and offers interactive broadcasts for sales or other presentations addressing market conditions and other areas of strategic importance. Users can also record content for later playback and distribution through e-mail or the Web.

Come see Avistar's 2006 "Lotus Advisor" award-winning video applications on display from June 20-22 at the Hilton New York, booth #1520. For further information, visit www.avistar.com. To view a video demonstration of Avistar's integration with Lotus Sametime 7.5, please visit www.avistar.com/assets/media/sametime_plugin_demo.wmv.

About Avistar Communications Corporation

Avistar Communications Corporation develops, markets, and supports a video collaboration platform for the enterprise, all powered by the AvistarVOS(TM) 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 Redwood Shores, California, with sales offices in New York and London. Avistar's technology is used in more than 35 countries.

Collaboration Properties, Inc. (CPI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Avistar, holds a current portfolio of 71 patents for inventions in the primary areas of video and network technology. CPI pursues patents for presence-based interactions, desktop video, recorded and live media at the desktop, multimedia documents, data sharing, and a rich-service network video architecture to support Avistar's product suite and customers. 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.

Forward Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements including statements regarding the availability, performance, impact and benefits of Avistar's suite of video applications and the integration of such applications with other products. Such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially, including such factors, among others, as technical difficulties, difficulties and delays in completion of the integration process, the development of competitive technology and solutions and delays in adoption or acceptance of video collaboration technology.

Copyright (c) 2006 Avistar Communications Corporation. All rights reserved. Avistar, AvistarVOS, and the Avistar logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Avistar Communications Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Source: Business Wire

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