“RADVISION’s Infrastructure Products, Management Tools and Applications Offer all the Components an Enterprise Needs to Deploy Converged Unified Communications Across all Platforms, Devices and Networks”
FAIR LAWN, New Jersey, January 16, 2006 -- RADVISION (Nasdaq: RVSN), a leading provider of video network infrastructure and developer tools for unified visual communications over IP, 3G, and emerging next-generation networks, today announced that leading UK industry analyst VC Insight has named RADVISION the “Unified Communications Company of the Year 2006.”
According to VC Insight, “The release of the SCOPIA™ v.5 family of infrastructure products in 2006 enhanced RADVISION’s capability to provide unified visual communications in the world of H.323, SIP and 3G mobile markets. The larger capacity of the MCUs enabled high definition videoconferencing as well as SD videoconferencing, converged video telephony services, and scalable desktop–based visual communications ... anywhere, at any time, and over any network. The SCOPIA v.5 platform, the iVIEW™ Suite network management family and the Click to Meet® Desktop Conferencing suite are perfectly integrated and easy to manage and install. RADVISION also demonstrated a strong capability to manage innovation and produce industry-leading technology across a very broad range of technologies.”
RADVISION was also recognized for its powerful platforms and solutions for the mobile arena, such as the SCOPIA 3G Video gateway and Interactive Video Platform.
VC Insight noted that other video conferencing vendors appreciate the innovative excellence of the RADVISION SCOPIA™ v.5 platform. AETHRA chose the SCOPIA v.5 platform for its Unified Communications offering in May; LifeSize and RADVISION announced a collaboration effort to strengthen interoperability between their respective product lines in August; and Sony channels resell the SCOPIA v.5 platform; and growth has been recorded with RADVISION’s sales through Cisco, its largest channel partner.
Richard Line, Editor of VC Insight commented: "Unified Communications has become viable and attractive as organizations and enterprises adopt IP (Internet Protocol) as the way to communicate and collaborate. A comprehensive and easy-to-install solution is required. With extensive, in-depth experience, RADVISION provides just that."
“RADVISION’s strategy is to provide the market with the most complete unified communications infrastructure solutions possible and allow enterprises to connect any device on any network,” said Bob Romano, VP Enterprise Marketing for RADVISION. “We are pleased to be recognized for our successes by VCInsight as the Unified Communications Company of the Year.”
About RADVISION
RADVISION (Nasdaq: RVSN) is the industry’s leading provider of market-proven products and technologies for unified visual communications over IP and 3G networks. With its complete set of standards-based video networking infrastructure and developer toolkits for voice, video, data and wireless communications, RADVISION is driving the unified communications evolution by combining the power of video, voice, data and wireless – for high definition video conferencing systems, innovative converged mobile services, and highly scalable video-enabled desktop platforms on IP, 3G and emerging next-generation IMS networks. For more information about RADVISION, visit http://www.radvision.com/.
About Videoconferencing Insight Newsletter
Videoconferencing Insight is a well established newsletter for the user of video and unified conferencing systems which has reported on the industry from a user perspective since May 1996. To increase access to the Newsletter, Videoconferencing Insight became a webzine in August 2002. It is published on Wednesday of each week at http://www.vcinsight.com/. It is accessible free of charge thanks to generous support from sponsoring companies including: Aethra, RADVISION, Sony, and TANDBERG.
In addition to the user application case studies, interviews and industry news published weekly, the web site contains a reference data bank of 400 user applications in 25 user vertical categories such as manufacturing industry, financial services, hospitals, telemedicine and education. Potential users of videoconferencing are invited to examine these case studies in order better understand the benefits of using videoconferencing for themselves.
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