ORLANDO, Florida, June 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- Total of 130 6G Telepresence Rooms Ordered in First 30 Days of General
Availability

InfoComm 2009 -- Teliris (www.teliris.com), the leading global provider
of agile telepresence and collaboration, announced today that British
American Tobacco will double their current Teliris Telepresence deployment as
well as upgrade all existing systems to realize the benefits of the newly
released agile 6G platform.

Leveraging Teliris' groundbreaking 6G platform, British American Tobacco
will double the number of Teliris Telepresence rooms originally anticipated
this year at the same total cost of ownership enabling the company to surpass
their carbon reduction goals. The new Teliris Telepresence locations will be
in more than 10 countries including the United Kingdom, Chile, Pakistan,
Vietnam, Venezuela, Switzerland, Costa Rica, Brazil, China, New Zealand &
Spain.

According to David Sampson, British American Tobacco's Group Mobility &
Virtual Working Manager, "When British American Tobacco adopted telepresence,
we set ourselves a number of 'hard' and 'soft' targets for benefits. Our
experience to date has been that all our targets have been exceeded. As well
as the financial benefits, we also hope this will help lead to new ways of
working and collaborating, ultimately giving our staff choices about how they
want to work, freeing up their time and improving their work/life balance.
Additionally, we hope telepresence will help us meet the stated
sustainability goals, including a real reduction in our carbon footprint. We
have set ourselves a target to reduce 11,000 tonnes of carbon over the next
five years through telepresence and we have managed to a reduction of 50
percent of that in just one year."

"We are thrilled, although not surprised, that British American Tobacco
and other premier customers quickly realized the unrivaled value that
Teliris' 6G platform delivers," said Tony Smith, Teliris European Managing
Director. "We have secured over 130 orders in less than 30 days since our
newest innovation became generally available and expect to continue at the
same pace in the future."

Over the last year, British American Tobacco has experienced annualized
savings of 9 million pounds Sterling on travel expenses and recovered 96,000
working hours previously lost during travel. Additionally, the company saved
over 6,000 tonnes of carbon by eliminating 5,592 short, medium and long haul
flights. The company experienced a 250 percent increase in Teliris
Telepresence meeting attendees with almost 13,000 participants in just one
year. These benefits will continue to accrue at an accelerated rate due to
the new system deployments.

Teliris' 6G platform, which is based on a new agile client server-based
software architecture, offers the broadest immersive telepresence and
immersive collaboration portfolio available that allow for the most
affordable experience with anyone in any location, at any time. As the
longtime telepresence leader in both innovation and deployments, Teliris is
the only option allowing the telepresence experience to be delivered over
general purpose networks. Teliris has the broadest suite of telepresence
products ranging from sub-US$8,000 desktop solutions to boardroom systems.
All Teliris solutions offer comprehensive interoperability options that allow
for connection to any system, anywhere and an end-to-end managed service with
a 99+ percent reliability guarantee.

British American Tobacco:

British American Tobacco is the world's second largest stockmarket-listed
tobacco group by global market share, with brands sold in over 180 markets
and employing 54,000 people. It is the only tobacco business selected for the
Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes, for the 7th year running in 2008-09, scored
on its economic, social and environmental performance.

About Teliris Telepresence:

Teliris develops and implements the world's most widely deployed fully
managed telepresence 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,
including Unilever, British American Tobacco, Lazard, Pearson plc,
GlaxoSmithKline, and Royal Bank of Scotland, Xchanging and Merck, among
others. 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 Cisco TelePresence,
Tandberg Total Telepresence and Polycom RealPresence. For further
information, visit www.teliris.com or email info@teliris.com.