iLinc Awarded 2008 Frost & Sullivan Green Excellence Award

  
    
  
  
    
      Green advantages for conferencing technologies are evident as meeting 
      remotely saves on travel, but certain vendors are leading the way with 
      measurement tools, or calculators, that help customers better assess 
      their contributions to the environment, triggering wider support for 
      environmentally-friendly initiatives, says a recent report from Frost & 
      Sullivan. This report names iLinc 
      (AMEX:ILC), a leading provider of Web 
      and desktop video conferencing software and online collaboration 
      solutions, the exclusive recipient of the 2008 Frost & Sullivan Green 
      Excellence Award for its Green Meter.
    
    
      The iLinc Green MeterTM, 
      an embedded feature that comes with iLinc web conferencing software, is 
      a unique, patent-pending tool that automatically measures carbon 
      emissions, fuel costs and mileage saved per participant, per meeting and 
      provides metrics for the organization as a whole. All hosted web 
      conferencing customers have access to the iLinc Green Meter. So far, 
      users of iLinc have saved more than two billion pounds of carbon 
      emissions.
    
    
      The Frost & Sullivan Green Excellence Award is given to the company that 
      has demonstrated unique product design and development initiatives, 
      which is aligned with a sustainable and environmentally conscious 
      objective within its industry sector. This Award signifies iLinc’s 
      identification of a unique and revolutionary solution with significant 
      environmental benefits, while presenting tremendous market potential 
      simultaneously. The Green Excellence Award also shows iLinc’s 
      overall business strategy as being sound and poised for success.
    
    
      As explained in the report, “Frost & Sullivan 
      applauds iLinc’s efforts in leading the market 
      with a tool to quantify the benefits of meeting online. iLinc’s 
      ground-breaking efforts to help its customers measure and track their 
      carbon footprints is validated in the company being the recipient of the 
      2008 North American Frost & Sullivan Green Excellence of the Year Award. 
      iLinc provides secure, reliable, easy-to-use web and video conferencing 
      services,” explained in the Frost & Sullivan 
      Green Excellence report. “It was one of the 
      first such vendors to release a ‘green’ 
      calculator for tracking and measuring usage.”
    
    
      “We’re finding 
      that green initiatives are playing an absolutely bigger role in how 
      customers make decisions,” said James 
      M. Powers Jr., President and CEO for iLinc. “Add 
      to that growing widespread focus on reducing cost, travel time and 
      carbon footprint through widely deployed web and desktop video 
      communications and it’s clear why iLinc web 
      conferencing is being well received by small to large organizations as a 
      way to gain greater control during a time of rising costs, and 
      environmental concerns.
    
    
      “iLinc’s Green 
      Meter is driving sales in vertical markets where measuring fuel savings 
      is a mandate, like state governments. The State of Arizona, an iLinc 
      customer, is seeing real benefit to the Green Meter and can show 
      measurable savings as a result. Across its 14 state agencies using iLinc 
      web conferencing, the State of Arizona has saved more than 63,000 
      gallons of fuel being used, $664,000 in employee mileage reimbursement, 
      and 760,000 pounds of carbon emissions in the first half of 2008.”
    
    
      “With iLinc we are reducing the costs 
      associated with travel and increasing the productivity of state 
      employees,” said Tad Wootton, Director, 
      Office of Efficiency Review, for the State of Arizona. “But 
      we also are heavily cutting carbon emissions as state employees come off 
      the interstate and go onto the internet.”
    
    
      About iLinc
    
    
      iLinc, a recognized leader in Web 
      conferencing, desktop video conferencing software and collaboration 
      solutions, aims to revolutionize the way organizations meet and 
      communicate. Through its software and services, iLinc liberates people 
      by enabling them to get more done, travel less, achieve work-life 
      balance while preserving the environment. iLinc offers the only 
      enterprise-class Web and video conferencing software that allows 
      customers to choose between a software-as-a-service (SaaS) rental model 
      or a traditional software purchase model, in combination with hosting by 
      iLinc or on-premise installation. iLinc is headquartered in Phoenix, 
      Arizona. For more visit www.ilinc.com/investors.
    
    
      About Frost & Sullivan
    
    
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      to accelerate their growth. Frost & Sullivan employs over 45 years of 
      experience in partnering with Global 1000 companies, emerging businesses 
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