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Teliris has also announced its 3D telepresence solution to deliver a new level of realism through a three-dimensional meeting experience.

Light Reading
by Craig Matsumoto
Teliris Ltd. is joining Cisco Systems Inc. in the home telepresence market, with units expected to be available in October. The news was part of Teliris's PR blitz for Infocomm last week.

Softpedia
by Alex Vochin
We've seen plenty of online communications and telepresence solutions being announced at InfoComm, but one that really drew our attention is the Teliris 3D Telepresence, which promises to deliver an enhanced level of realism by enabling a much more life-like perception, due to the use of 3D technologies (which are the craze of 2010, as we've said time and time again).

TMCnet
by Deepika Mala
The first-available home solution for the enterprise to extend the life-size, reliable experience of real telepresence to remote workers has been introduced by Teliris, the world's most widely deployed fully managed telepresence and collaboration solutions.

The New York Times
by Joe Sharkey
With air service still hobbled in Europe, government transport officials scrambled on Monday to hold an emergency meeting. But as anyone stranded in this mess knows well, it’s difficult to travel to, from or very far within Europe.

TMCnet
by Rajani Baburajan
Teliris, a provider of fully managed telepresence and collaboration solutions, announced the opening of its new European headquarters and state-of-the-art demonstration facility in London.

AV Technology
Telepresence, while known for its ability to increase productivity and cut travel costs, has been an expensive solution to deploy and operate. It has traditionally been hardware-based and required engineered, QoS-heavy networks.

New York Times
by Joe Sharkey
I had been planning to spend this month in Tucson, where I have been finishing a book on air travel. Then I got a phone call from my publisher in New York asking if I could come to a meeting to discuss the changes that seem to be occurring each day in the travel industry.

Light Reading
Teliris, the leading provider of telepresence solutions, announced today it has secured US$11 million in new equity capital from Fidelity Ventures, Columbia Capital and an additional strategic investor.

CableFAX
by Jonathan Tombes
Telepresence is trending upward, right alongside the global economic downturn. One way to spin that correlation is with the idea of what economists call a substitute good. Specifically, telepresence is something that can replace airline travel.

Washington Business Journal
by Tierney Plumb
Teliris secured $11 million in new equity capital from Fidelity Ventures, Columbia Capital and another investor.

Telephony Online
by Carol Wilson
How hot is telepresence? Well, in a tight capital market, Teliris was able to get $11 million in new equty capital from its earlier investors, Fidelity Ventures and Columbia Capital, and a new investor.

TMCNet.com
by Greg Galitzine
Founded in 2001, Teliris delivers fully managed telepresence solutions to customers in over 26 countries with an impressive installed base of Global 1000 companies, including Lazard, Pearson plc, GlaxoSmithKline, QUALCOMM and Royal Bank of Scotland, among others.

Networking Channel
by Heather Clancy
Telepresence solutions -- with their ability to contain business travel costs and meet market pressure for corporate environmental responsibility -- could prove relatively recession-proof in 2009.

Telecommunicator Blogspot
by Tim Poulus
Benoit had an exciting experience of being in a telepresence conference. The equipment was put together by Cisco, probably the market leader. Interestingly, I got in touch with a competitor, back in October: Teliris.

bMighty.com
by Frederic Paul
Even as many companies look to find the least expensive alternatives to in-person meetings, other companies are looking for the best possible simulation of a real meeting. I recently had meetings in San Francisco and New York, where I saw both sides of the phenomenon.

Financial Times
by Jessica Twentyman
When it comes to negotiating with British American Tobacco's technology suppliers, CIO Phil Cook is not simply looking to drive a tough bargain, he's looking to drive a green one, too.

Telephony Online
by Ed Gubbins
As corporate America becomes more acquainted with telepresence, innovators already are looking at ways to evolve the experience, conducting pure research with an eye toward the sector years from now.

CIO.co.uk
by Martin Veitch
The travel budget needs cutting, says the CFO. The corporate -social responsibility people say we have to take this green agenda seriously. HR reports that the latest polls have executives bleating about how much time they’re spending on planes. Smaller local subsidiaries think they’re not getting enough face time with company leaders. What are you going to do? For some CIOs, the answer lies in a relatively new concept called telepresence.

Networkworld
by Martin Veitch
The travel budget needs cutting, says the CFO. The corporate -social responsibility people say we have to take this green agenda seriously. HR reports that the latest polls have executives bleating about how much time they're spending on planes. Smaller local subsidiaries think they're not getting enough face time with company leaders. What are you going to do? For some CIOs, the answer lies in a relatively new concept called telepresence.

The IT-Finance Connection
by Carl Weinschenk
The growth of powerful end point technology and bandwidth-rich networks makes telepresence–a step beyond tele-conferencing–a feasible tool for a wider variety of corporate workers.

Forbes.com
by Andy Greenberg
Sitting in one of Cisco's "telepresence" rooms, it's hard to imagine how the networking giant's high-end version of teleconferencing bills itself as a technology for tight times.

IMCCA
by David Danto
One year shy of its 70th anniversary, InfoComm International’s 2008 exhibition and conference just wrapped-up here in Las Vegas. Most of the exhibitors and attendees I spoke with had the same experience of the show that I did – this was the biggest and busiest conference InfoComm has ever done.

Telepresence Options
by Chris Payatagool
Trachtenberg explains how Teliris MultiTouch technology provides the collaboration tools necessary to extend the Telepresence experience beyond the audio and visual senses.

CRN
by Andrew R. Hickey
Cisco Systems and Teliris both hit the market Monday with new telepresence solutions designed for single or personal use and that aim to ease the financial burden and boost accessibility of the high-end and typically high-dollar video conferencing systems.

Human Productivity Lab
by HSL
At Telepresence World in San Diego, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Marc Trachtenberg, the CEO, CTO, Cofounder, and Deputy Chairman of Teliris, the global commercial leader in installed telepresence systems. Marc discussed Teliris' work on interoperability between disparate telepresence systems, its new web interface for telepresence meetings, his recent announcement of 11 new Fortune 1000 customers deploying 50 new telepresence systems, and the company's recent $40 million dollar capital raise from Columbia Capital and Fidelity Ventures.

Human Productivity Lab
by Howard Lichtman
I spent the majority of last week at InfoComm in Las Vegas and have spent the 1st part of this week trying to recover from the sensory and informational overload that the conference slams into the cerebral cortex.

The Unified Communications Industry Forum
by Codian
Teliris, a provider of immersive telepresence solutions, has announced a multi-touch surface computing based collaboration solution and interactive virtual flip chart and whiteboard for telepresence, designed specifically for immersive collaboration business use.

New Electronics
by Mike Richardson
Teliris has announced the launch of its Teliris InterACT Surface and Teliris InterACT Easel.

TMCNet.com
by Arun Satapathy
Teliris has announced a new continuum of telepresence solutions that breaks previous pricing barriers to open telepresence accessibility to enterprises and smaller businesses.

TMCNet.com
by Niladri Sekhar Nath
The portfolio encompasses three new solutions i.e. Teliris Personal Telepresence , a cost-effective solution for private offices and individual users, Teliris Express Telepresence, and Teliris Custom Telepresence. All three are based on the core of Teliris' world-renowned VirtuaLive telepresence technology that provides natural, and intimate meeting environment available.

TechTarget
by Rivka Gewirtz Little
Telepresence vendors are stretching their product lines to get the once inaccessible and super-expensive technology into the hands of more enterprise users.

Light Reading
by Raymond McConville
Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) and Teliris Ltd. separately unveiled new, cheaper telepresence offerings today, aimed at making the service more affordable for companies of all sizes.

TMCNet.com
by Anil Sharma
Teliris, a provider of telepresence solutions, has opened its Wall Street offices in New York City, complete with an on-site demonstration facility for its technology.

TMCNet.com
by Richard Grigonis
When migrating an enterprise to IP Communications, the best implementations result from the best plans. First you should ask yourself, why are you moving your organization to IP communications? It better not be just to save money with PSTN toll-bypass. After all, there are an amazing number of unified communications and other innovative, productivity enhancing applications appearing almost daily.

IndustryWeek
by Brad Kenney
Chipmaking heavyweight Qualcomm recently announced a trial telepresence program aimed at fostering deeper integration and increased communication between its San Diego headquarters and research facilities located in Campbell, Calif. and Bridgewater, N.J. The telepresence solution, which includes three installations of Teleris' VirtuaLive Modular, will be an addition to help engineers from the company's remote offices collaborate more effectively on research and design projects and ultimately improve productivity and efficiency.

Light Reading
by Ray McConville
There's little doubt that telepresence is really cool. But there's no denying how expensive it is (about $300K per room). Costs like that raise the question of whether there is a viable business model for it. Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO), Teliris Ltd. , and Nortel Networks Ltd. (NYSE/Toronto: NT) will tell you that of course there is and that the high costs don't even matter because telepresence is just that good.

eWeek
by Karen Schwartz
Saved time could be spent strategizing and increasing profits. To get you there, try these major time-saving technologies in 2008.

Light Reading
by Ray McConville
There's no point in dwelling on the successes and failures of the past for much longer. It's time now to look ahead at some of the technologies our editors think will be white hot in the coming months.

Light Reading
by Ray McConville
After viewing the telepresence offerings of two big names, Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) and Nortel Networks Ltd. (NYSE/Toronto: NT), we got the opportunity to see the original -- Teliris Ltd.

Light Reading
by Craig Matsumoto
Cisco Systems Inc. can't shut up about its TelePresence videoconferencing system these days, but one startup wants you to know it's been pecking at this for six years and might still be the leader.

CRN
by Jennifer Bosavage
A deadly steam pipe explosion put many New York City businesses on an unexpected summer hiatus last month. However, teleconferencing vendor Teliris, located right outside of where the rupture occurred, was able to keep its customers up and running worldwide, despite the turmoil.

CIO.com
by Katherine Walsh
Forget web videoconferencing as you know it. Think HD, large plasma screens, and life-size participants. Think videoconferencing with muscle and you've got telepresence. This ultrahigh-end technology features HD, large plasma screens and fancy acoustics in a specially constructed room. Participants appear on the screen in life size and with zero latency, says Claire Schooley, a senior analyst at Forrester. Should this emerging technology be on your radar screen?

Broadcasting & Cable
by Larry Barrett
It’s called “telepresence,” and viewers tuning into a recent episode of the Fox hit 24 saw a demonstration when Vice President Daniels and the Russian president had a crucial meeting using the latest and most advanced form of videoconferencing technology to date. “We’re just at the very beginning of something extraordinary,” says Mark Barounos, president of Hemisphere Expo Service, as well as host of the industry’s coming-out convention, Telepresence World, June 4-6 in San Diego.

The Wall Street Journal
by William M. Bukleley
A NEW GENERATION of high-end video-conference systems is facilitating virtual meetings that users say are almost like being there - especially compared with conventional systems plagued by jerky video and speech that isn’t synchronized with lip movements.