Source: www.voip-news.com

IBM is enhancing the features of Lotus Sametime with bandwidth management software from Avistar Communications. Sametime is IBM’s answer to unified communications and collaboration in the office and on the road.

According to eWeek:

UCC rolls applications such as instant messaging, VOIP, video conferencing, Web conferencing, telephony, e-mail and even business applications into one. IBM last March vowed to invest $1 billion into UCC over the next three years; today’s deal with Avistar is clearly part of that plan, though financial terms were not disclosed.

Avistar makes C3 video conferencing technology, which lets users initiate video communications across and outside the enterprise with one click. C3 also features bandwidth management, which includes software tools and algorithms that control and manage bandwidth used by UCC and distributed applications.

Source: www.voip-news.com

Avistar Communications Corporation is going to be offering desktop videoconferencing through a partnership with City Information Services Limited.

“CityIS is a significant player in our strategy to deliver our C3 solutions through the reseller channel. CityIS has more than a decade of specialized experience in the videoconferencing space, and knows first-hand what its clients need to remain competitive in today’s challenging global marketplace. With offices around the world servicing global clients, CityIS offers a breadth and depth of channel coverage that will be instrumental in our goal of making Avistar desktop videoconferencing as ubiquitous as large room implementations,” said Darren Innes, General Manager of Worldwide Sales for Avistar.

The companies say that the product fills a much-needed area of the market as more and more companies seek ways to cut costs and travel less.

Source: www.voip-news.com

Avistar Communication’s C3 desktop and room-based videoconferencing and collaboration software will now have firewall traversal technology

“With Paradial, Avistar has taken a significant step forward in increasing the availability — and therefore the impact — of videoconferencing and collaboration tools in the workplace,” said Chris Lauwers, Chief Technology Officer at Avistar. “Our C3 software is now capable of independently managing interconnectivity with different vendor systems, and is a cinch to deploy and manage. These factors make it realistic, indeed even compelling, to extend the rollout of more effective video-enabled communications beyond the borders of an enterprise to include external clients, suppliers and home-based or mobile workers.”

Paradial’s RealTunnel Firewall/NAT is embedded into all versions of Avistar C3 including Desktop, Teamroom, Teamroom MP, Executive Teamroom and Mobile Teamroom.

“A key challenge for the video communications industry is to move from being an intra- to an inter-company solution. The agreement to embed our software within Avistar C3 means video and audio collaboration traffic can flow outside of the corporate network without hassle or compromise to security,” Ingvar Aaberg, CEO of Paradial, said.

Source: voip-tech.blogspot.com

Out from yesterday 4th of July 2007 a new version of Skype™, the 3.2.0.175, contemporaneous it is available also the beta version 3.5.0.158.
Between the changes we can find a slight improvement of the call’s audio quality, a better installer compatibility under Windows Vista and the Internet Explorer plugin upgrade.
The beta version is to use with caution, in fact it’s not a final version and it could result unstable.
On the main page of the Skype™ website there are the direct links for downloading the last version 3.2.0.175 and the beta version 3.5.0.158.
Have a good download!

Source: voip-tech.blogspot.com

At the beginning of the next year (someone said 30th January 2007) it will be released the new OS by mother Microsoft®, Windows Vista, also it will be released the new version of the Office Suite, called 2007.
It seems that in Windows Vista there will be an integrated VoIP system that provides also videocalls, but there’s no informations yet if this "integration" will be part of the existing Windows Live Messenger that previously and since it was knew by the name of MSN Messenger, it was able to communicate with keyboard, voice and video.
We will consider, when Windows Vista will be out, which will be the best offer costs/performance/quality, with the famous and most used software Skype™ and other softwares and VoIP providers.