Avistar

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[edit] Avistar Communications Corporation

Avistar Communications Corporation
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Type Public (NASDAQ: AVSR)
Founded Redwood Shores, California
Headquarters Redwood Shores, California, USA
Industry videoconferencing, desktop video, collaboration
Website www.avistar.com

Avistar Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: AVSR) is a personal videoconferencing company, co-founded in 1993 by Jerry Burnett.

Avistar provides a self-service suite of desktop video applications that scales to a large number of users. This application delivers both point-to-point and multi-party video calling, interactive broadcasting and TV distribution, document sharing, video recording and on-demand playback that can be published to websites and e-mails. All of these applications are integrated with one interface. Avistar is headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, employs approximately 85 people in offices in the United States and Europe. The company’s technology is currently deployed in some of the world’s leading financial institutions. Avistar has installations in more than 35 countries.