RADVISION Selected as Unified Visual Communications Company of the Year 2008 by Industry Analyst Telepresence (TP) and Videoconferencing (VC) Insight

RADVISION Wins Award Three Years Straight â?? SCOPIAâ??s HD Desktop Video Conferencing Key Winning Factor

TEL AVIV (January 13, 2009) –

RADVISION® Ltd. (Nasdaq: RVSN), a leading provider of video network infrastructure and developer tools for unified visual communications over IP, 3G, and emerging next-generation IMS networks, today announced that the company and its products have received an Editor’s Choice Award for achievements in 2008 from leading industry analyst TP and VC Insight.
RADVISION was chosen as TP and VC Insight’s “Video-enabled Unified Communications Company of the Year 2008”. TP and VC Insight chose RADVISION as it offers a complete easy-to-use solution that incorporates HD desktop video conferencing into an enterprise’s unified communications network. Also noted as influencing factors for the award was “RADVISION’s prowess and high market share in providing toolkits for connecting VC endpoints, VoIP phones, 3G phones and other devices.”
RADVISION’s SCOPIA is a comprehensive, robust communications platform that delivers the scalability and seamless device support organizations need to leverage and protect current standards-based conferencing investments. SCOPIA’s powerful combination of hardware and software supports media processing for advanced high definition (HD) room systems and high scale distributed processing for desktop and mobile deployments. This combination provides a cost effective and high performance solution for video-enabled unified communications.

The SCOPIA Desktop software client enables users to participate in video conferences without a significant hardware investment. SCOPIA Desktop’s unique market leading features include a freely distributable web client, automatic firewall traversal, voice-video-data interoperability and end-to-end high definition. SCOPIA Desktop can be used by anyone inside or outside the enterprise firewall making it easy to connect to and fully participate in meetings no matter where users are – at their desk, at a customer location, or in a hotel in another part of the world.

In 2008, RADVISION significantly enhanced the SCOPIA platform providing advanced capabilities for unified communications deployments. Noted developments include:

* HD Desktop video conferencing with a standard PC and webcam
* Conference recording and content management
* HD enhancements to Cisco® Unified Videoconferencing powered by SCOPIA
* Multiparty HD video conferencing for IBM® Lotus® Sametime®
* Room system connectivity for Microsoft® Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007
* HD multiparty video conferencing for Alcatel-Lucent OmniTouch My Teamwork

“We are impressed with RADVISION’s SCOPIA Platform and its further development in 2008. It now incorporates a complete, easy-to-use HD desktop video conferencing solution into an enterprise, unified communications network,” said Richard Line, Editor of TP and VC Insight. “RADVISION’s competence and proven innovation in unified communications will make their product developments in 2009 interesting to watch.”

“RADVISION is pleased to be recognized by TP and VC Insight for the third straight year as Unified Visual Communications Company of the Year,” said Zeev Bikowsky, General Manager, Networking Business Unit for RADVISION. “We invite everyone to experience our high definition conference room from their own desktops by visiting www.radvision.com/tryscopia. The desktop client can be downloaded for free with immediate entry to a public conference room where users can experience this leading edge technology.”

About RADVISION

RADVISION (Nasdaq: RVSN) is the industry’s leading provider of market-proven products and technologies for unified visual communications over IP, 3G and IMS 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. To gain additional insights into our products, technology and opinions, visit blog.radvision.com. For more information about RADVISION, visit www.radvision.com.

This press release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, general business conditions in the industry, changes in demand for products, the timing and amount or cancellation of orders and other risks detailed from time to time in RADVISION’s filings with the Securities Exchange Commission, including RADVISION’s Form 20-F Annual Report. These documents contain and identify other important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in our projections or forward-looking statements. Stockholders and other readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date on which they are made. We undertake no obligation to update publicly or revise any forward-looking statement.

Source: RADVISION

 
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