Avistar, Fontel to Market Videoconferencing, VoIP Services

Avistar (News - Alert) Communications Corporation and Fontel Inc., wholesale distributor of voice and data communications products, announced today that they’ve joined forces to market Avistar’s C3 (News - Alert) videoconferencing.

 

The Avistar and Fontel distributor agreement is an expansion of the two companies’ partnership that began earlier this year with Fontel supplying end-point device bundles (headsets, speakerphones, web cameras) for Avistar’s C3 software, according to the companies. Avistar’s desktop and room solutions are available immediately through Fontel and its resellers, officials say.

 

The Avistar C3 bandwidth management enables thousands of users to access desktop videoconferencing, VoIP, collaboration services and streaming media without requiring substantial new network investment or impairing network performance.

 

As a result of the agreement, Fontel’s resellers can now leverage a standards-based video conferencing solution to enhance their customers’ business communication, improve operations and increase productivity and performance, according to the company.

 

“This partnership combines the power of Avistar C3 technology with Fontel’s significant channel network. This opens a new distribution channel for us, and offers Fontel customers a significant value-add to their current technology investment. Companies of all sizes turn to Fontel and its reseller and dealer network for voice and data products, and now they can reap the benefits of our award-winning, interoperable and scalable videoconferencing solutions as well,” said Simon Moss, chief executive officer of Avistar.

 

Avistar says it creates technology that provides the missing critical element in unified communications: bringing people in organizations face-to-face, through enhanced communications, for true collaboration any time, any place.

 

Its latest product, Avistar C3, draws on more than a decade of market experience to deliver a single-click desktop videoconferencing and collaboration experience that moves business communications into a new era, according to the company.

 

Fontel Inc., based in Aurora, Nebraska, is a wholesale distributor of voice and data communications products. Fontel says it offers a high quality, yet competitively priced, portfolio of voice and data communication hardware and software products to dealers, resellers and installers of voice and data communication systems.

 

Kurt Mitchell, President, Fontel, Inc., said, “Studies have indicated that communication between people is up to 70 percent body language. Avistar’s technology brings that face-to-face element to the table and is the next logical bundle with audio and data communications. With today’s economy and emphasis on conserving the environment, videoconferencing technology is in high demand. Fontel has about seven different types of dealers and resellers across the United States, and we believe Avistar’s C3 technology will more than fit their needs.”