LifeSize Connections Brings HD Video Conferencing to the Cloud

AUSTIN, Texas, July 21, 2011 -

New Infrastructure
as a Service (IaaS) Offering Enables
Businesses of all Sizes to Unlock
the Quality, Productivity and Power
of HD Video Collaboration in the
Cloud

LifeSize, a division of
Logitech (NASDAQ: LOGI) (SIX: LOGN), today announced href="www.lifesize.com/gamechanger">LifeSize®
Connections™, a cloud-based href="www.lifesize.com/Products.aspx">HD video
conferencing platform that delivers immersive, multiparty
communication at enterprise-level quality. LifeSize Connections
delivers seamless, encrypted HD video calling across the enterprise
- connecting LifeSize href="www.lifesize.com/Products/Video.aspx">video
conferencing systems in conference rooms to desktop users on
PCs or Mac computers.

“For the thousands of organizations sitting on the sidelines
waiting to realize the power of HD video collaboration - the wait
is over,” said Craig Malloy, CEO of LifeSize and Logitech SVP.
“LifeSize Connections is a fast, easy way to add and extend HD
video collaboration within and outside any enterprise; a benefit
that was previously reserved for executive board rooms with a hefty
price tag and managed service burden. Now, our cloud-based platform
is introducing a new way of working by enabling employees to
improve productivity and collaborate in ways they never thought
possible.”

Users can have any contact join them in Connections as a guest,
for free, by simply sending a download link and guest registration.
This makes it easy for both new and existing video users to extend
their reach and communicate with remote employees, clients and
partners in an easy, ad hoc way. LifeSize Connections features
nine-way HD video bridging, data encryption and management. It
automatically configures endpoints and software clients to
instantly traverse firewalls, ensuring connection on any network,
every time.

Outstanding barriers to video adoption for many companies have
been the high upfront cost of equipment and the lack of sufficient
IT resources to manage complex deployments of traditional
on-premises video infrastructure. Interoperability challenges also
make it difficult for on-premises users to make calls with outside
vendors, customers or colleagues. LifeSize Connections helps
eliminate these challenges by combining turnkey deployment,
flexible pay-as-you-go pricing models and the ability to
collaborate with anyone with a computer and a webcam.

“Video requirements vary from company to company, regardless of
whether they’re the smallest SMB or the largest enterprise, because
those needs are dictated by their clients, employees and partners,”
said Roopam Jain, principal analyst, Frost & Sullivan. “With
Connections, LifeSize is pushing video closer to ubiquitous
adoption by making it easily accessible to anyone, anywhere.”

Product features of LifeSize
Connections include:

• Reducing the IT burden
  • Seamless integration among meeting rooms, PCs or Mac
    computers
  • Auto-configuration of endpoints and software clients including
    directory services
  • Integrated firewall traversal to help ensure call connectivity
    over any network
  • Encrypted, Web-based administration including user-specific
    bandwidth control, reporting and user management
• Simplifying use for any user
  • Simple click-to-call, presence-enabled dialing with seamless
    call escalation to multi-party calling
  • Data sharing and instant messaging capabilities
• Making HD video communication accessible
  • Up to nine-way multipoint calling at 720p with encrypted media
    and signaling
  • Cloud-based scalability that grows with an organization simply
    and easily to help reduce costs and IT support
  • An optional free trial of the product before committing to a
    purchase

Pricing and Availability

LifeSize Connections Desktop Client: U.S. $30/user/month

LifeSize Connections Endpoint: U.S. $100/room/month

Pricing includes up to 9-way 720p video bridging for every
seat

LifeSize Connections is expected to be available globally in the
third calendar quarter of 2011

Additional Resources

• href="www.lifesize.com/~/media/Media_Kit/Product_Datasheets/Connections/LifeSize_Connections_Datasheet_EN.ashx">
  LifeSize Connections datasheet
• More information
  on all LifeSize July 20 announcements
• More information
  on the LifeSize Connections beta program
• LifeSize
  blog 

About LifeSize Communications

LifeSize is a pioneer and world leader in high-definition video
collaboration. Designed to make video conferencing truly universal,
our full range of open standards-based systems offer
enterprise-class, IT-friendly technologies that enable genuine
human interaction over any distance. Founded in 2003 and acquired
by Logitech in 2009, LifeSize, with its commitment to relentless
innovation, continues to extend the highest-quality video
conferencing capabilities to anyone, anywhere. For more
information, visit href="www.lifesize.com/">www.lifesize.com.

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CONTACTS: Jacey Overton, LifeSize Communications, +1-512-623-4215, joverton at lifesize.com