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Zultys Licenses the Avistar C3 Media Engine™ – Powering Video for Zultys’ MXIE Unified Communications Desktop

San Mateo, Calif., March 11, 2009 — Avistar Communications Corp. (Nasdaq: AVSR), a leader in unified visual communications solutions, announced today that Zultys, Inc., a leading provider of all-in-one unified communication solutions, will integrate Avistar’s C3 Media Engine and make it available to its customers around the world. Through this agreement, Zultys customers will have the ability to add best-in-class desktop videoconferencing to their unified communications systems. Zultys plans to launch the integrated solution in the fall of 2009.

Simon Moss, CEO of Avistar, said, “After a thorough and competitive review, Zultys selected Avistar. Zultys is recognized for its innovative, open standards IP communications and telephony products. Avistar C3™ will help Zultys open new revenue streams and provide important new videoconferencing features that will strengthen its positioning in its markets worldwide.”

“Videoconferencing provides the ROI our customers are looking for as part of their unified communications solutions, especially in a down economy, where travel is well scrutinized,” said Steve Morrison, Vice President, Product Marketing, Zultys. “Avistar C3 augments our line of VoIP and web conferencing products, empowering our customers to collaborate and take aggressive action to remain competitive.”

Avistar C3 Media Engine
Based on the award-winning Avistar C3 Desktop™ solution, the Avistar C3 Media Engine provides a business class desktop videoconferencing experience to technology partners who require a visual communications experience within their applications. Business-class videoconferencing is recognized as a valuable communications tool that provides corporations serious cost savings, improved productivity and ROI. According to a recent Wainhouse Research study, one third of those polled see the use of videoconferencing accelerating given today’s economy, as it reduces the need and cost for travel plus improves collaboration and decision-making. At a fraction of the cost of typical videoconferencing solutions, Avistar C3 makes videoconferencing easy and approachable for both advanced and novice business users.

About Zultys
Zultys, Inc. is showing what’s possible for Open Standards IP communications and telephony. Its Open Standards IP technology is the building block for its award-winning IP PBX systems. Zultys develops products that enable companies and organizations in more than 110 countries and 19 languages to deploy integrated communications systems. For more information visit: www.zultys.com.

About Avistar Communications Corporation
Avistar (Nasdaq: AVSR) is a unified visual communications solutions, providing proven business-class technology. Avistar’s desktop videoconferencing installations include more than 100,000 committed desktop seats worldwide, bringing together business users anytime and anyplace. Companies such as IBM Corp., Sony Corp., LifeSize Communications, Inc. and Polycom Inc. use Avistar technology to power their unified communications solutions. Avistar works with leading-edge technology partners and resellers including CityIS, Beyondis, Datamart and Fontel in more than 40 countries.

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500 Limited, a leading provider of business grade IP telephony solutions to the SME market, is using UC Expo ‘09 as a platform to demonstrate the industry’s first fully integrated IP telephony web conferencing solution. MXMeeting™, developed by Zultys Inc, combines voice, desktop web interaction, instant messaging, virtual meeting rooms, online presentations, training and demo’s into one easy to use, scalable, integrated service.

Launched by Zultys Inc in January in the US, UC Expo will be the first opportunity for European users to see the full functionality and cost-savings this unique unified communications solution offers. 500 Ltd will be running demonstrations of the system’s web conferencing, remote PC support, remote PC access and web seminar capabilities at 10am, 12pm, 2pm and 4pm on both days of the show.

Séan Ryan, director of 500 Limited, comments: “UC Expo offers us the ideal opportunity to show the full potential that can be achieved from web conferencing when it is fully integrated into an IP telephony solution such as the Zultys MX Media eXchange systems. Apart from the significant cost-efficiencies of MXMeeting™ compared to its key competitors, the solution offers users seamless web conferencing and remote desktop functionality. With the simple click of a button, users can join or start new web conferences and their attendee’s need only have a browser – or iPhone – to join the meeting as no downloads of any kind are required.”

Robust, scalable solutions

MXMeeting™ builds on Zultys’ premier, and established, IP-PBX portfolio, maturing since 2001 and which already supports integrated call handling, voice mail, gateways, presence server and instant messaging server for up to 10,000 users. MXIE, Zultys’ unified communications client software, is fully integrated with MXMeeting™ and supports PC, Mac and Linux client devices. From as little as two meeting rooms with ten concurrent users (M200), the system can be scaled to accommodate as many as 200 meeting rooms with 2000 concurrent users (M1000).

Secure, cost-effective system

With 128bit encrypted meetings that are secure and firewall protected, MXMeeting™ offers users the ultimate in hardened on-premise security. In addition, users benefit from being able to purchase the system outright, making MXMeeting™ a highly cost-effective, no ‘monthly-fee’s’ solution.

DETATILS:
UC Expo ’09 – Stand 808, 11th – 12th March 2009, Olympia
Further 500 Ltd exhibitor information can be found at:
’500 Limited Representing Zultys Inc. – Stand 808′

An Insurance Age lead story this week was ‘Brokers warned of telecoms firms mis-selling call-recording devices’.

Insurance brokers are being urged not to fall victim to telecoms firms pitching call-recording equipment on the grounds of regulatory compliance.

Sean Ryan, a director of 500, was asked to comment.  He claimed they were exploiting the vague wording of the regulations, saying: “The FSA had to take a broad-brush approach to ensure it covers businesses that may offer cross-over services.

“However, it is not surprising to hear that some telecommunications companies may be mis-selling call-recording products and services following the FSA’s policy statement. Ignorance of the applicability of the policy may be used as an opportunity for pushing call-recording technology to companies that do not require it.”

Here at 500 you can be assured not only of our knowledge and expertise but also of our integrity and honesty.

The full article can be read at:
insuranceage.com – ‘Brokers warned of telecoms firms mis-selling call-recording devices’.

The Financial Times Advisor’s lead story ‘IFAs Falsely Targeted over FSA Telephone Recording Rules’ stated that IFA firms are being warned to ignore demands from telecommunication firms insisting that new telephone systems costing up to £30,000 must be bought to comply with new Financial Services Authority (FSA) regulation. Owing to our extensive research in this area, Séan Ryan, a director at 500 Limited, was asked to comment, saying “It’s not so surprising to hear that some telecommunications companies may be miss-selling call recording products and services following the FSA’s policy statement. Ignorance regarding the applicability of the policy may be being used as an opportunity to push call recording to companies who do not require it.” Here at 500 you can be assured not only of our knowledge and expertise but also of our integrity and honesty.

The full FT article can be read at:
FT Advisor.com: ‘IFAs falsely targeted over FSA telephone recording rules’