Elluminate VCS™ 2.0 Delivers Affordable, High-quality, Multipoint Video Collaboration for Desktop Users

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Enables Educators and Trainers to Expand Existing Videoconferencing Infrastructure, Add Real-time Data Collaboration Tools

Pleasanton, California — September 9, 2009

News Facts:

• Elluminate, Inc. announced today the newest addition to its family ofweb, video, and audio social learning solutionsdesigned for education. Elluminate VCS™ 2.0, the latest version of the company’s affordable, high-quality, multipoint video collaboration solution, will be generally available by month end.
• First launched in April of 2009, Elluminate VCS was developed to address the challenges of existing videoconferencing products, such as exorbitant costs, limited scalability, significant hardware requirements, ongoing reliance on IT support, and the inability to invite remote users on an ad-hoc basis.
• The product enables academic institutions, corporations, and other organizations to leverage their significant investments in legacy videoconferencing infrastructure by including desktop PCs, while increasing ROI through low-cost integration and endpoint extension.
• Elluminate VCS extends video endpoints to reach more participants in a significantly more convenient and cost-effective way, adding an interactive collaborative environment that includes intuitive presence awareness, session scheduling, and management tools.  
• Easy to deploy and use, the product supports real-time interaction and collaboration with features such as chat, object-oriented whiteboard, application and desktop sharing, file transfer, and document presentation and sharing.
• Primarily a software solution, Elluminate VCS requires a customer premise equipment (CPE) server.  Elluminate VCS clients operate exceptionally well on network speeds less than typical DSL connections and the system can interoperate with existing legacy H.323 infrastructure.

Supporting Product Information:

Elluminate VCS provides:

• High-resolution, high-frame-rate, multipoint video collaboration
• Dramatic cost savings over traditional videoconferencing
• Interoperability with legacy H.323 videoconferencing
• Up to 25 endpoints in a session, with moderator control of 6 video slots
• Unified, task-oriented “MS Office-style” tabbed user interface designed for education and training
• Session interaction tools put moderator in control
• Telephone dial-in to sessions using third-party SIP origination service
• Web 2.0-style portal for session scheduling and management
• Powerful, multi-user data collaboration tools
• Low-bandwidth requirements and minimal processor demands
• Scalability to thousands of endpoints and hundreds of multipoint ports
• Presence client for ad hoc invitations and instant messaging
• Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) server

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