Live Meeting is Microsoft's innovative hosted Web conferencing service that enables information workers to communicate and collaborate with anyone, anywhere, with just a PC and an Internet connection. With its media-rich interactivity and the capability to show and share documents and applications, Live Meeting helps users worldwide minimize costs and streamline communications with colleagues, customers and suppliers. The Arel Anyware plug-in gives users the ability to conduct high-quality, multi-point video and audio conferences from within the Live Meeting framework. Users can quickly and efficiently join a video- and audio- enabled meeting through a brief installation and registration process within Live Meeting's custom panel. A webcam is required for full-featured video operability.

The Arel Anyware plug-in provides high-quality multi-point video and wideband audio capabilities in conjunction with Microsoft Office Live Meeting as well as Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 and Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005. Arel's technology is designed to adapt to low-bandwidth Internet connections while simultaneously retaining up to 16 video windows in a single session at any bandwidth threshold. In addition, Arel Anyware works in secure corporate network environments or over the Internet. Users will be able to join (through Live Meeting) or initiate (through Communicator) a multi-point video, audio, and Web conferencing session, from within their company's existing corporate network (Intranet) and the Internet, seamlessly traversing the most secure firewall and proxies.

"We're pleased to be working with Arel to deliver rich multi-point voice and video to our Live Meeting customers." said Marc Sanders, senior product manager, Real-Time Collaboration Group, Microsoft. "The Arel Anyware plug-in builds on the valuable features of Live Meeting, allowing participants to communicate at low bandwidths with high quality video and audio, delivering an enhanced Web conferencing experience. Arel provides another excellent example of the vibrant ecosystem of partners developing high-value business solutions on the Microsoft Collaboration platform."

"The integration of Arel's industry-proven technologies into Microsoft Office Live Meeting is a testament to both companies' commitment to make the desktop the natural end-point for communication and productivity enhancement across the enterprise," said Andrew W. Davis, managing partner at Wainhouse Research. "Arel's flexible and modular software architecture has the advantage of integrating easily with Microsoft Office Live Meeting, providing a significant advancement with high-quality, low-bandwidth video for desktop Web conferencing and collaboration."

"Arel Anyware is a powerful conferencing and collaboration tool that replicates the in-person meeting experience and makes high-quality face-to-face global communication possible," said Philippe Szwarc, CEO of Arel. "We are very excited to be working with Microsoft and look forward to continuing to redefine and enhance the Web conferencing and collaboration experience for global enterprise customers and consumers."

The Arel Anyware plug-in will be available for purchase as on an on-premise or a hosted solution through Arel's sales representatives. More information on Arel Anyware is available at www.ArelAnyware.com.