Texas Power Company Expands Use of Glowpoint Managed Video Services

HILLSIDE, N.J., May 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Glowpoint, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: GLOW), a global managed video services provider, today announced that a leading power producer in Texas is expanding its use of Glowpoint's "cloud-based" managed video services, and conferencing services platform, to support more mid-level and executive conference room locations across the state.

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"The use of video conferencing has reduced drive time for our employees, improved team-wide collaboration, and increased productivity throughout our company," said a company spokesperson. "Due to this success, we're now upgrading our executive meeting rooms with services from Glowpoint and The Whitlock Group to enhance our overall communication capabilities."

Company executives can now walk into any of their managed video conferencing rooms to see and collaborate with colleagues throughout Texas via Glowpoint's Telepresence interExchange Network (TEN) and managed services platform. Along with the Glowpoint managed service, the power company contracted with The Whitlock Group, a leading audio visual integration firm, to install and integrate video conferencing systems at nine of their sites in 2008, then added two additional sites in 2009, and eventually chose to upgrade all of its conference rooms in 2010.

"When they first looked into video solutions, they wondered what would be thorough or effective enough," said Kirk Muffley, director at The Whitlock Group. "Now, employees who once drove two hours to one meeting in Dallas, and then two hours back, simply walk into one convenient, local conference room and dial in."

Glowpoint VP of Marketing Jonathan Brust said, "Enabling this client to communicate more efficiently through a well-articulated and unified communications strategy, with video as a core feature, was critical so that they could reinvent themselves to achieve specific results. With Whitlock's advanced audio-visual capabilities, combined with our managed services, this customer now has high-quality, on-site technology, with the added benefit of access to our shared infrastructure that keeps their hardware capital investment low, but usage of their system high."

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About Glowpoint

Glowpoint, Inc. (OTCBB: GLOW) provides carrier-grade, managed telepresence and video communications services that are accessible via its cloud-based, hosted infrastructure and applications. Glowpoint's suite of robust telepresence and video conferencing solutions empowers enterprises to communicate with each other over disparate networks and technology platforms. Glowpoint supports thousands of video communications systems in more than 35 countries with its 24/7 video management services. Glowpoint also powers major broadcasters, Fortune 500 companies, as well as global carriers and video equipment manufacturers – and their customers – worldwide. To learn more, visit http://www.glowpoint.com.  

About The Whitlock Group

The Whitlock Group is the world's premiere audiovisual systems integration and managed services company. We excel in enabling customers to succeed with unified communications and advanced collaborative solutions on an enterprise, national and global basis. The Whitlock Group has been recognized as a leader in providing full-scale design, engineering, project management, integration and maintenance support for audio/video, videoconferencing, telepresence, video streaming, digital signage, broadcast and related multimedia solutions. As the nation's largest privately-held audiovisual integrator and a founding member of the Global Presence Alliance, The Whitlock Group is uniquely qualified to provide turnkey technology solutions and support to mission-critical and high-profile projects.  www.whitlock.com; www.global-presence.org

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