The transaction significantly grows Transcend United’s scale and ability to serve markets in the Northeast and adds significant capabilities to the company’s Managed Services practice. The resulting product portfolio includes solutions for service desk, IP Telephony, Wireless, WAN Optimization, Videoconferencing, and Backup/ Recovery including a state of the art 24 x 7 Network Operations Center (NOC).

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As a key part of Transcend United’s expansion strategy, all LiquidSpoke principals and executive management are joining the company in key roles. Transcend United plans to relocate its headquarters and Pennsylvania sales operations to LiquidSpoke’s current Wayne, PA, location. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

In describing the synergy of the transaction, Transcend United’s CEO Rick Hirsh explains, “Like Transcend United, LiquidSpoke has an outstanding reputation for management expertise and world class customer satisfaction, and it has a strong footprint within the northeast region with mid-size enterprise focus. Both companies’ customers benefit significantly with our extended expertise in voice, data, video, and managed services.”

“We share the same passion for delivering high-levels of technical expertise with world-class customer service,” said Richard Tarity, President and CEO of LiquidSpoke. “As a result of this merger and combined platforms, our customers will realize broader service programs and the results will be mutually beneficial.”

Transcend United Technologies LLC, a member of the 2010 VAR 500, combines cost effective technology, experienced people, and world-class service to help organizations optimize their IT and communications infrastructure. Transcend United delivers products and expertise in key technologies including unified communications, data infrastructure, data center management, and backup/recovery/availability. With these offerings, Transcend United helps organizations solve real business problems such as improving application performance for branch offices, reducing voice, data, and video communications costs, ensuring business continuity in case of a disaster, and reducing staffing and operations costs in the data center. Transcend United maintains locations in Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Boston, Chicago, and Omaha.

LiquidSpoke is a leading technology services firm intensely focused on design, implementation and support services for unified communications and managed services. LiquidSpoke brings vertical expertise to the financial, education, retail, and manufacturing market segments as well as other key industries to deliver global managed technology services.

LifeSize Team 220 was qualified within the Microsoft Office Communications Server platform. This is the first of many qualifications LifeSize is pursuing with Microsoft. Later this year, the company expects to win approval for its Passport, Room 220 and Express 220 products as well.

This further strengthens the ties between the two companies. Recently, Skype qualified the LifeSize Passport HD video conference product to be the first room-based, business-class video conferencing solution to be plugged into Skype. Weeks later, Microsoft acquired Skype with the intention of integrating its products into desktop computing and other applications.

With the new qualification, Microsoft customers can now experience seamless video calling across the enterprise by connecting LifeSize video systems in conference rooms and meeting spaces to the PC, and vice versa, delivering a unified communications (UC) experience.

Today, customers are able to make calls between Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 desktops and LifeSize endpoints, ensuring genuine, face-to-face interaction within their existing Microsoft environment and workflow. Later in 2011, LifeSize will seek qualification to interoperate with Microsoft Lync. This flexible interoperability will also enable customers to upgrade from Microsoft Office Communications Server to Lync on their terms.

Moreover, LifeSize has licensed the Microsoft RTVideo codec and is planning a future server-based product to enable high-definition interoperability between Microsoft Lync and LifeSize video systems. Later in 2011, LifeSize will seek Microsoft Lync qualification with true HD interoperability.

“LifeSize delivered the first HD video conferencing system in 2005, the first sub-$2,500 HD video product in 2009, and our commitment to innovation is realized today in yet another first – delivering on our promise to reach true interoperability across UC platforms,” said Craig Malloy, chief executive officer of LifeSize and Logitech senior vice president. “Through LifeSize and Logitech’s relationship with Microsoft and deep dedication to UC, we’re delivering on our vision to extend high quality communication capabilities to anyone, anywhere.”

LifeSize solution qualification for Microsoft OCS 2007 R2 includes support for:

• Authentication and encryption (TLS/SRTP) for secure, reliable communications
• Firewall/NAT Traversal via Microsoft Edge Services to ensure issue-free calling outside organizations
• Auto-configuration of systems as they are registered to Microsoft Office Communications Server, helping simplify deployment to users
• Unified presence status with the ability to place and receive calls from one Office Communications Server account between multiple devices (PC or a LifeSize system)
• Addition of LifeSize systems to contact lists in the Microsoft Office Communicator view and vice versa
• Easy placement of calls from LifeSize systems to third-party systems within the Microsoft OCS 2007 R2 environment, using commonly supported video and audio codecs

“Microsoft is pleased to be working with Logitech and LifeSize as a qualified partner to offer customers more comprehensive UC solutions through interoperability with Microsoft Office Communications Server and soon, Microsoft Lync,” said Yancey Smith, director of product management for Lync at Microsoft Corp. “The combination of LifeSize technology with Microsoft UC platforms will enable customers to extend their video conferencing ecosystems from the desktop to the boardroom, and everywhere in between.”

There are more than 1,500 LifeSize Partners worldwide, including more than 400 in the United States. LiquidSpoke was one of just 28 recognized at LifeSize’s Annual Partner Awards.

“Our reseller partners bring tremendous value to LifeSize,” said Joe Vitalone, vice president of sales, Americas, for LifeSize Communications. “We are proud to honor LiquidSpoke with this award to commend the quality services it provides for our customers and the tremendous momentum it has made in driving HD video conferencing solutions across organizations.”

LiquidSpoke’s HD video conferencing experience is the strongest in the industry and brings people together with a simplicity unimagined just a few years ago. At LiquidSpoke, we believe all businesses deserve higher productivity, better engagement, reduced travel, more time to make decisions, and reduced carbon emissions. Using the most advanced HD technology available today, LiquidSpoke delivers the ultimate in quality, flexibility, and price performance – at every size business level

“LifeSize is truly committed to its channel partners and this award not only exemplifies the great work our team has done, but also the quality solutions we’re able to offer with LifeSize to meet our customers’ demands for immersive, HD video conferencing capabilities,” said Rich Tarity, CEO for LiquidSpoke.  “We look forward to supporting the continual success of our customers and furthering our partnership with LifeSize.”

LifeSize pioneered HD video communications to deliver the telepresence experience from the desktop to the conference room with up to Full HD 1080p video. With the ability to provide HD video communications under 1Mbps, as well as the highest resolution available at any bandwidth, LifeSize systems enable customers to cost-effectively deploy HD video communications. The full suite of LifeSize solutions is available for order from LiquidSpoke.