Last Updated: August 25th, 2010

Also see: The Telepresence and Videoconferencing Catalog -The most comprehensive catalog of telepresence and visual collaboration solutions anywhere on the net.

+ Telepresence System Vendors

• Business Octane
• BrightCom
  
• Cisco
• Digital Video Enterprises
• HP Halo
• Huawei
  
• Lifesize
  
• Magor TeleCollaboration
  
• Polycom
• Tandberg
• Telepresence Tech
• Teliris

+ Desktop Telepresence Vendors

• Digital Video Enterprises
• Exovision

+ Desktop, PC, and Personal Videoconferencing

• Avistar - Focused on the Financial Services Industry
  
• Cisco - Unified Videoconferencing 3500 Series, WebEx
  
• LifeSize Communications - LifeSize Desktop
• Mingleverse - Virtual environments combined with video.
  
• Polycom - Personal Systems,
  
• Radvision -
  
• TANDBERG - Desktop Video,  PC Video (Movi)
  
• Vidyo - 

+ Video Phones & Portable Videoconferencing Solutions 

• Creative InPerson - Portable Wi-Fi Video Phone / VTC Appliance
  

+ Telepresence Managed Service Providers

• AT&T 
• AVI-SPL - VNOC Managed Services
  
• Avaya
• BCS Global - VNOC Managed Services, Telepresence Exchange Provider
  
• BT Global Services - VNOC Managed Services, Telepresence Exchange Provider
  
• Glowpoint - VNOC Managed Services, Telepresence Exchange Provider
  
• HP Halo Collaboration Solutions
  
• Iformata - VNOC Managed Services
  
• IP V Gateways - Wholesale provider of bridging services to TP and VTC Managed Service Providers, Telepresence and Videoconferencing Exchange Provider
• mvision- (UK and Europe, HQ Central London)
  
• Telemerge
  
• Teliris
• Verizon Business
• York Telecom

• IP-V Gateways / Telx
  
• Cisco's Telepresence Exchange Business Unit
  

+Unified Communications Vendors

• Cisco
• Microsoft
• Nortel
  

+ Carriers, Meet-Me Facilities, and Network Service Providers

• AKN - Canadian network provider and wholesaler that simplifies Canadian connectivity
• Allied Fiber - New Domestic US Fiber Capacity for Carriers, MSPs, and Large Enterprises
  
• AT&T - TP and VTC managed services and network with Interconnection offering
  
• BT Conferencing - TP and VTC managed services and network
• FiberLight - Fiber & Metro Optical Services (US Footrpint) for Carriers, MSPs, and Large Enterprises
  
• Glowpoint - TP and VTC managed services and network
• Hibernia Atlantic - Network provider with a redundant route across Northern Atlantic
  
• Iformata - TP and VTC managed services and network
• IP V Gateways - Interconnection specialist for TP and VTC traffic
  
• MASERGY - True QoS Network provider for TP and VTC with Interconnection offering
  
• Rivulet -
  
• Tata Communications
• Telehouse- colocation data centre facilities, global interlink, internet peering, managed services, disaster recovery, and more
  
• Telemerge
  
• Telx - Carrier Neutral Colocation and Meet- Me Room Provider with TP and VTC Interconnection offering
  
• Verizon Business
• Virtela Communications - True QoS Network provider for TP and VTC
  
• WBS Connect - True QoS Network provider for TP and VTC with turnkey TP & VTC Solutions
  

+ Telepresence & Videoconferencing Codec & Appliance Vendors

• DiscretePhoton
  
• Hai Vision
• LifeSize
• Panasonic - KX-VC500
  
• Polycom
• Sony
  
• Tandberg
• Vidyo
• Vu Telepresence
  

+ Telepresence Display Vendors

• Analog Way - Hi-Res Mixers / Seamless Switcher, Scalers, and Scan Converters
  
• Christie Digital - Projector Technology, Video Wall Systems,
  
• Digital Video Enterprises - On-Stage Telepresence, Beam Splitter Solutions
  
• Electrosonic - Video Wall Technology,
  
• Musion - On-Stage Telepresence,
  
• TelePresence Tech - Beam Splitter Solutions
  

+ Camera Platforms (360 Degree Capture)

• Immersive Media
• Microsoft Roundtable

+ Data Collaboration Peripherals

• Cereno - NuVa Horizontal Desktop Data Collaboration System
  
• Electrosonic - HD Data Collaboration CODECS
  
• Polyvision - Interactive Whiteboards
  
• SMART Technologies - Interactive whiteboards, multi-touch surface computing, tablets,
  
• Teliris - InterACT Data Collaboration - Surface Computing, Document Replication, Easel
• TC&C - CARIN Recording Suite for Cisco TelePresence and Unified Communications
  
• WolfVision - Document Cameras and Visualizers
  

+ Telepresence/Videoconferencing Infrastructure Providers

• IPeak Networks - Packet loss Reduction Appliance for TP & VTC end-users and MSPs
  
• Polycom - MCUs
  
• RADVISION - MCUs
  
• Tandberg / Codian - MCUs
  

+ Telepresence Resellers Pro-AV and System Integrators

• Actis (India)
• ATK Services (Western US)
• BT Conferencing (Western Europe and US)
• Communiqué Conferencing, Inc. - (Audio, Web, & Videoconferencing Solutions)
  
• Datacraft (Asia and India)
• GBH Communications (Western US) - LifeSize, Polycom, TANDBERG, and Vidyo
• Limbergy - (Mexico & Central America) - Unified Communications, Telepresence, and Visual Collaboration.
  
• mvision - (UK and Europe) - TANDBERG, T3 Demo Capability in Central London
  
• Teleportel (Belgium and Western Europe)
• Vectus Media (Telanetix and Others, East Coast)
  
• WBS Connect (Integrates Telepresence solutions from DVE, Vidyo, and LifeSize Communications)
  
• The Whitlock Group (Eastern US)
• Global Presence Alliance  (Global Solutions from some of the World's Best Pro-AV shops)
• Smarter Interactive recommends, installs, and supports audio visual solutions
  

• Cinemaworks
• Pangeair (Out of Business)
  
• Powwow Virtual - The Human Productivity Lab's business model for publicly available telepresence done right. 
  
• Tata Communications - Over a dozen publicly available Cisco TelePresence Systems
  
• F2F Biz Cafe - Start up launching network of telepresence cafes. 
  

+ Telepresence Consulting & Global Telepresence Solution Design

• Human Productivity Lab - Telepresence ROI modeling, Solution Design, Inter-Company Telepresence
  
• Straight Up Technologies -  Telepresence for the Entertainment and Sports Industries - Home of Mike Lee, the former Chief Architect for Cisco's Telepresence Exchange Business Unit
  

• Telepresence Industry Calendar
  
• Sustainability Virtual Summit- Telepresence Enabled On-Line Virtual Event
  
• The Inter-Company Telepresence and Videoconferencing Conference and Working Group - April 22nd, 2010
• Telepresence Industry Professionals Dinner - Reston, Virginia - April 21st
  

+ Projected Telepresence, On-Stage Telepresence and Holographic Projection

• Digital Illusions LLC - North American License Holder for Musion Technology, Content creator
  
• Digital Video Enterprises - Telepresence Stage
  
• Musion - Eye-liner Foil for On-stage telepresence

• Anybots - Manufacturer of the QB telepresence robot
  
• The Robot Report - Excellent coverage of the robotics industry
  
• Telbotics - PEBBLES telepresence robot
• RoboDynamics - Manufacturer of the TiLR telepresence robot
  
• Vgo - Manufacturer of the Vgo telepresence robot
• Willow Garage - Developers of the PR2 & Texai robotics platforms & open source code for personal robotics.
  

+ Telepresence Applications

• ThereNow (Education)
• Digital Illusions LLC - On-Stage Telepresence production in the United States (MUSION Licensee) 
• Dialogue Cafe - Facilitating global conversations about important issues.
• Worktopia - Meeting management solutions for telepresence.
• Copytalk - Mobile transcription service... Dial phone... talk... get transcript via e-mail
  

+ Telepresence/Videoconferencing Software Solutions

• IFormata VNOC Symphony - VNOC Management, Scheduling, Reservations,
  
• IPeak Networks - Packet loss reduction for TP & VTC applications
• Tandberg Management Suite - Management and Scheduling Software for TP & VTC Networks
  
• The Visual Environment (Carbon Emission Measurement & Reduction)
• Vidyo (H.264 SVC Video Compression Software)
• Viral Media Productions (Personal Video Mass Messaging) 

+ Collaboration Training

• LearnTel (Australia)
• Human Productivity Lab (United States)

+ Conferencing Industry News

• Brockmann & Company - The Customer Insight Firm -
  
• Business Video @ TMCnet - Partnership of TMC & Interactive Media Strategies
  
• Conferencing News - Daily aggregator of conferencing industry news
  
• Telepresence Options - Follow On Twitter - Main Feed- RSS, Email 
• Telepresence Options Telegraph - Newsletter on Telepresence
  
• Videoconferencing Insight Newsletter
• Video Conferencing Talk  - Forum and on-line community for videoconferencing professionals
  
• VRoot (Virtual Reality News)
• Wainhouse Research

+ Academic Research on Telepresence/Presence

• 3D Telepresence for Medical Consultation (UNC)
  
• The Augmented Multiparty Interactive Consortium
  
• International Society for Presense Research
  
• The McGill Ultra-Videoconferencing Group
• Multiview
• Presence Research in Action (PEACH) (Out-of-Business)
  
• Teleimmersion @ UC Berkeley
• HyperMirror @ Osaka University, Japan
• University of Southern California - Institute for Creative Technologies
• PRIME - PRoduction- and Projection-Techniques for Immersive MEdia-" is state-aided by the German Federal Ministry for Economy and Technology (BMWi). Consortium: DVS, FLYING EYE, Fraunhofer HHI, Fraunhofer IIS, HFF, Kinoton, KuK Filmproduktion, Loewe
• 3DPresence Project - received funding from the Seventh Research Framework Programme & emphasises the transmission, efficient coding and accurate representation of physical presence cues such as multiple user (auto)stereopsis, multi-party eye contact and multi-party gesture-based interaction. Consortium: Philips Research, Radvision, Fraunhofer HHI, Technical University of Eindhoven,Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo (coordinator)
  

+ Telepresence Researchers and Academics

• Andrew Jones - USC ICT - TPO Article - 12/08,
  
• Harlyn Baker - HP Labs
• Ruzena Bajcsy - UC Berkley, Head of Tele-immersion Project
  
• Bruce Culbertson - HP Labs
• Henry Fuchs - UNC- Projection Augmented Dummies, 3D Telepresence for Medical Consultation
• Howard S. Lichtman - President, Human Productivity Lab - Productivity Technologist, Author, Telepresence Guru, Consultant
  
• Michael Harville - HP Labs
• Wijnand IJsselsteijn - Human-Technology Interaction Group at the Eindhoven University
• Gregorij Kurillo - UC Berkley Tele-Immersion Lab, CITRUS Lab,
  
• Jeff Machtig - Digital Video Enterprises
  
• Steve McNelley - Digital Video Enterprises
  
• David Nguyen
• Irwin Sobel
• Larry Smarr
• Greg Welch - UNC - Projection Augmented Dummies
  
• Duffie White - TelePresence Tech
• Einat  Yellin (Lachover) - Radvision, 3D Telepresence
  

+ Industry Associations & Standards Bodies

• Telepresence Industry Professionals - The Human Productivity Lab's industry association on Linked In of over 1370+ telepresence industry professionals
  
• Interactive Multimedia Collaborative Communications Alliance
• L2 Telepresence Forum
• Visual Communications Industry Group (VCI-Group - Formerly the Polycom Users Group)
  
• Telepresence Today (Domains for Sale)
• Unified Communications Interoperability Forum - The UCIF creates and tests interoperability profiles, implementation guidelines and best practices for interoperability between UC products and existing communications and business applications

• Discover Telepresence - Marc Trachtenberg, CEO & Co-founder - Teliris
  
• The LifeSize Blog - Casey King, CTO - LifeSize Communications
  
• Telepresence Options - Howard S. Lichtman, President - Human Productivity Lab
• Telepresence Times - Martyn Lewis, European Chairman & Co-founder - Teliris
  
• Video over Enterprise - Sagee Ben-Zedeff, R&D Guru - Radvision
• Video Networker - Stefan Karapetkov, Emerging Technologies Director - Polycom
  

• Hellard Design - From the team that brought you the original TeleSuite (Now Polycom RPX)
  
• Regal Research and Manufacturing - TelePresence Tech
• Quanta Computer - Contract manufacturer for Cisco TelePresence 
• Speck Design - Telepresence System Design (Cisco)

• The Telepresence and Videoconferencing Catalog - The most comprehensive catalog of telepresence and visual collaboration solutions anywhere.
  
• The Telepresence Options' YouTube Channel - The largest channel on YouTube devoted to the telepresence & effective visual collaboration - Over 1.6MM views, 400+ subscribers
  
• The Inter-Company Telepresence and Videoconferencing Handbook (Dec 2009)
  
• The Inter-Company Telepresence and Videoconferencing Exchange Review (Feb 2010)
  

• + Good Deeds

• Amazon Cares
• Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth
• Bicycles for Humanity
  
• Electronic Frontier Foundation - Defending Freedom in the Digital Age
  
• Fluoride Action Network
  
• Freedom Calls Foundation
• Generation Rescue - Jenny McCarthy's Autism Organization
  
• Kiva - Loans that Change Lives
  
• Loose Change - Final Cut
• National Vaccine Information Center - America's Vaccine Safety Watchdog
• Oath Keepers - New Site - Guardians of the Republic!
  
• Patriots Question 9/11
• Room to Read
  
• Safe Minds - Sensible Action for Ending Mercury Induced Neurological Disorders
• Survival Blog
  
• Vacations for Veterans
• Vaccination Liberation