Jasomi and RADVISION Partner to Provide Next Generation Multimedia/Multipoint Conferencing across External Networks

Business Wire, Feb 7, 2005

ORLANDO, Fla. -- RADVISION/Jasomi:

--Alliance Enables Integrated Video/Voice/Data/IM Conferencing Through NAT Firewalls;

--Companies Join Forces in Co-Development and Co-Marketing of Joint Solution

RADVISION (NASDAQ: RVSN), a leading provider of multimedia conferencing and communications platforms, and Jasomi Networks, offering products that support Internet Protocol (IP) connectivity across network security boundaries, today announced a marketing and technology partnership aimed at increasing the penetration of integrated video, voice, instant messaging (IM), and data conferencing services across corporate networks.

The partnership, announced at VoiceCon 2005, will provide enterprises with a unique and secure desktop multimedia communications solution that not only delivers Microsoft-powered voice, video, and data conferencing, but also overcomes firewall and NAT (Network Address Translation) traversal issues - a longstanding obstacle to IP communications between different networks.

"The RADVISION-Jasomi alliance brings added value to our customer solutions using Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005," said Marc Sanders, Senior Product Manager for Microsoft's Real Time Collaboration Group. "Enterprises have a strong need for instant collaboration both inside and outside the organization. RADVISION and Jasomi are a key part of our vibrant partner ecosystem that is building secure, manageable and scalable enterprise-grade real-time communication solutions on the SIP based Live Communications Server 2005 platform."

Real-World Applications

RADVISION's iVIEW(TM) Communications Manager and viaIP(TM) multimedia conferencing unit seamlessly integrate with Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005, Windows Messenger, Active Directory, Outlook Calendar for easy scheduling, and the forthcoming Istanbul live communications client, bringing integrated voice, video, data conferencing and collaboration to employee desktops and corporate meeting rooms worldwide.

While the RADVISION/Microsoft joint solution provides a powerful enterprise-wide multimedia communication architecture, a major barrier to desktop multimedia conferencing continues to be the need to securely enable IP voice/video communications between networks. Jasomi has solved this problem through its industry-leading NAT products that allow IP communications to effectively traverse Internet security firewalls at the edge of corporate networks without compromising existing firewall effectiveness.

"Jasomi's NAT technology is a crucial component for effective multimedia conferencing over Extranets and between Internet-based networks," said Killko Caballero, RADVISION's Senior Vice President of Enterprise Strategy. "By partnering with Jasomi, RADVISION is able to significantly increase the value of its services to both Internet Service Providers and businesses of all sizes."

By combining Jasomi's NAT transversal technology with RADVISION's rich multimedia services, the two companies make true, seamless, secure and instant multimedia collaboration possible. The telephone-like pervasiveness of such IP voice-and-video collaboration is expected to strongly benefit call centers, Extranet users, telecommuters, and individuals in other real-world situations, as well as Internet Service Providers who want to offer hosted VoIP, conferencing and collaboration services.

"RADVISION's iVIEW platform is an exciting, leading-edge technology that has the potential to change the way individuals communicate on the job," noted Joel Fisher, Vice President for Business Development at Jasomi Networks. "Its interoperability with a wide range of new Microsoft products using Live Communications Server, including Microsoft Office, makes it a very attractive new tool. Jasomi is looking forward to working closely with RADVISION on a number of levels to make these services ubiquitous in the business community."

Marketing, Technology

Jasomi Networks and RADVISION have already optimized their joint technologies and are currently making them available as a complete intra-network solution. Several major customers have successfully deployed, or are in the process of deploying, the combined solution. In addition, RADVISION and Jasomi are cooperating in marketing their technologies through a variety of means such as co-branded materials, joint activities and demos, and the sharing of sales leads and referrals.

"The business world is currently experiencing only the tip of the iceberg of multimedia conferencing's true potential," said Andrew W. Davis, Managing Partner at Wainhouse Research, an independent market research firm specializing in rich media conferencing and collaboration. "The affordability and productivity of IP-based personal multimedia communications will attract millions of organizational users in the future. RADVISION and Jasomi Networks, with their powerful solutions for the Microsoft desktop communication architecture, are well positioned to take advantage of this huge developing market."