Teliris Telepresence Joins Newly Launched UCIF to Advance Unified Communications Interoperability

Forum will enable interoperability of Unified Communications hardware and software through inter-vendor openness and collaboration

NEW YORK, May 19, 2010 - Teliris Telepresence today announced its membership in the newly formed
Unified Communications Interoperability Forum (UCIF), a non-profit alliance
of worldwide technology leaders working together to fully realize the
potential of unified communications (UC). The UCIF is dedicated to enabling
standards-based, cross-vendor interoperability of UC hardware and software
across enterprises, service providers and consumer clouds and is designed to
enable global businesses to be more productive.

Teliris joins founding members HP, Juniper Networks, Logitech / LifeSize
Communications, Microsoft and Polycom, as well as Acme Packet, Aspect,
AudioCodes, Broadcom, BroadSoft, Brocade, ClearOne, Jabra, Plantronics,
RADVISION, Siemens Enterprise Communications. Recognizing that seamless
interoperability based on open standards is one of the key requirements to
drive UC further into today's enterprises, UCIF members will collaborate to
overcome existing interoperability barriers to widespread UC adoption and
deliver a reliable and rich UC experience, with the goal of propelling
worldwide enterprise UC adoption.

"Teliris fully supports the UCIF mission and strongly believes that open
interoperability standards are critical in creating and maintaining the
simple, natural meeting experience that defines telepresence - regardless of
vendor, system size or deployment location," said Marc Trachtenberg, Teliris
CEO and Co-Founder. "We look forward to joining this group of industry
leaders in the quest to achieve real telepresence and overall UC
interoperability."

"Interoperability is not only critical to customer success for deploying
unified communications but intrinsic to the delivery of legacy, current and
next-generation UC tools, services and infrastructure from multiple vendors
Until now, efforts to achieve interoperability have appeared ad-hoc, which
has given customers little assurance that their existing and planned
investments are protected and will deliver the value promised," said Jonathan
Edwards, research analyst, Unified Communications, IDC. "I'm delighted to see
Teliris take a leading role by joining the UCIF. Together, these companies
will help drive industry-wide adoption of open standards and develop programs
that put accountability on the vendors and provide peace of mind and
investment protection for end customers - something that will surely
accelerate adoption of UC technologies."

The UCIF will work with existing industry standards, identifying and
filling the gaps between current protocols and interoperability issues that
have stalled broad adoption and deployment of valuable communications
methods. UCIF membership is open to hardware and software solution providers,
service providers and network operators. For more information or to join the
UCIF, visit www.ucif.org.

About Teliris Telepresence:

Teliris develops and implements the world's most widely deployed fully
managed telepresence and collaboration solutions, realistically replicating
the human dynamics of an in-person meeting experience. Through its 6G
platform and unique intellectual property, Teliris has radically simplified
the acquisition, deployment and operating costs of telepresence, breaking new
ground in adoption and reach of the technology. Teliris has deployments in
over 50 countries with the largest installed base of Global 2000 companies.
Headquartered in New York and London, the company is the leading innovator in
agile telepresence with end-to-end integration, market-leading 99%+
availability guarantee and interoperability with all standards-based
telepresence and traditional videoconferencing systems.

About the Unified Communications Interoperability Forum:

The Unified Communications Interoperability Forum (UCIF) is a non-profit
alliance of worldwide communications technology leaders working together to
realize the potential of unified communications (UC) by increasing
efficiency, decreasing implementation costs and improving the
interoperability experience for UC customers. The UCIF's vision is to enable
interoperability of standards-based UC hardware and software across
enterprises, service providers, and consumer clouds, as a means of generating
incremental business opportunity for all stakeholders in the ecosystem and of
increasing the business use of UC technologies and services. The UCIF creates
and tests interoperability profiles, implementation guidelines and best
practices for interoperability between UC products and existing
communications and business applications. Visit www.ucif.org to learn
more.

Shanley Stern Gravel, Teliris, +1-917-515-4548, shanley.gravel at teliris.com