PicturePhone, a value-added distributor of videoconferencing products and accessories, announced today that LifeSize (News - Alert) Communications’ latest high-definition (HD) video communications products can now be purchased through its network of dealers and integrators.

 

These products include LifeSize Room 200, a Full HD (1080p30/720p60) videoconferencing solution; LifeSize Conference 200, a standards-based 1080 telepresence system; and the all-new LifeSize Team 200, a feature-rich HD visual communications system for workgroups.

 

Because it eliminates the time, cost and carbon emissions associated with travel, videoconferencing is becoming the more affordable way to conduct business. LifeSize HD conferencing products from PicturePhone provide excellent video and audio quality, unique flexibility and unmatched cost-value ratio, enabling business professionals to reap the many benefits of video communications.

 

These next-generation LifeSize products are expected to raise the bar for current market leaders in the conferencing arena.

 

"I expect that LifeSize will increase its market share exponentially in short order based upon these new products alone," said Dave Weber, vice president of PicturePhone. "LifeSize, the conferencing manufacturer that pioneered high-definition video communications, has just raised the bar again! The new HD product suite will allow us to provide even better value to our distribution channel."

 

PicturePhone also distributes new tools from LifeSize that help customers deploy and manage their video networks, with new and improved versions of LifeSize Multipoint, LifeSize Transit and LifeSize Gateway (News - Alert) infrastructure products.

 

LifeSize's all-HD video product portfolio is now the industry's broadest and most affordable high-definition product line, ranging from simple point-to-point video systems to highly customized, multi-display, multi-HD camera telepresence systems.

 

Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Rochester, New York, PicturePhone is one of the industry's largest value-added distributors of videoconferencing products and accessories. PicturePhone distributes conferencing solutions through a network of qualified dealers and integrators. PicturePhone prides itself in being a one-stop shop for all business-to-business conferencing requirements.

 

LifeSize is the first partner to develop and deliver high-definition video communications products. LifeSize was founded in 2003 by industry veterans and named "Videoconferencing Partner of the Year" in 2007 by Videoconferencing Insight.  LifeSize's solutions combine exceptional quality, user simplicity and administrator manageability to make video communications a productive, true-to-life experience. LifeSize is headquartered in Austin, Texas with subsidiaries in Europe and Asia Pacific, and a network of channel partners reaching more than 80 countries.