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Christian

Hi all-

I am not a believer in (shameless) self promotion when blogging, but I ran into some kind words written about our product and our team (truly our greatest asset), that I thought I would share.

From Sean Eichorn’s blog, FrozenReality.com (he is based in Alaska):

“I am rarely very impressed with 3rd Party software, but Agito Networks has impressed me.”

Always a nice lead in!  Thank you Sean, and do let us know if there is anything else we can do to help!

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Pej
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Now that the Nokia E71 for AT&T (known as the E71x) has been officially announced, it got me to thinking about what I have heard from press, analysts, customers, and other enterprises over the past month or so during my travels.

First off, I should state that my primary phone is an unlocked US Nokia E71, and I am a huge fan of the phone. Great VoIP performance, the best battery life of a dual mode phone to date (that I have seen), and the industrial design is gorgeous. The full spec sheet is on the Nokia site.  With AT&T offering it at $99, I am hopeful that this will reinvigorate Nokia S60 in North America.

That said, I did hear a lot of commentary about how Nokia’s (and Apple’s, and every other WinMo handset maker’s support for native Microsoft DirectPush) was well received because it eliminated the costly $100/user client access licensed imposed by RIM for mobile email support.  I have heard story after story about cost conscious enterprises allowing unsanctioned personal phones (e.g. the iPhone) to receive corporate email because it was effectively free from cost, and DirectPush still allowed for remote device wipe to provide security peace of mind.

With more and more DirectPush phones being release and many more to come (such as the Palm Pre), will this threaten the viability of the Blackberry Enterprise Server and the additional client access license expense?  Do you see a future where Blackberries support DirectPush?  The BES does have very robust device management and policy rules which allows enterprises to really customize and control device and email behavior, I just wonder how many enterprises will pay the premium for it versus going to other multivendor MDM solutions that can do the same.

Congratulations to Nokia and AT&T on the release of an exciting phone!

Pej
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My favorite quote (so far) from the event comes from Monica Basso:

“Business is mobile.”

Pej

Update Mar 3 - According to Phonescoop, this trial is now nationwide!

I am pleased and a bit surprised to see T-Mobile USA offer $49.99 flat rate calling to “loyal” customers (customers in good standing and with acounts active for >22 months). This is just a pilot and based on this blog post, it looks to be limited to the SF Bay Area.

This is a big step for a US mobile operator.  To my knowledge, voice ARPU for US mobile operators averaged around $40-50 dollars per month.  The existing flat rate plans (at $99) come at a significant premium over normal rate plans for the **average** user (100+%).  With this new pricing model T-Mobile makes the step to flat rate usage at ~25% increase, a far more palatable step up in pricing.

It will be interesting to see how AT&T, Verizon, and in particular Sprint will respond.  Is this the end of tiered rate plans?  If this plays out, the impact to enterprises will be significant - more mobile usage, but more importantly, more mobile users.  Enterprises can easily justify rolling out mobile devices to a greater user base at neutral to lower overall cost.

I will keep my eyes on this one - I am keen to see if this pilot rolls out nationwide.

Pej

Read the post on Cellphone Signal

Philippe Winthrop at Strategy Analytics poses an interesting question:

“So what about WiFi companies such as Aruba Networks, Bluesocket, Cisco, Extricom, HP ProCurve, and Meru?

They all talk about enterprise mobility, but are they REALLY in the enterprise mobility space?”

I agree in spirit with Philippe - that enterprise mobility is the intersection of lots of “things” - devices, applications, **AND** infrastructure (cellular, WiFi, 3G/4G). So in my opinion, WiFi infrastructure is part of enterprise mobility - but they are not an island unto themselves.

Cisco, Aruba, and Meru - to name just a few - do great things to make applications that ride on the infrastructure work well, especially around voice, such as QoS and Call Admission Control, things that make devices work better such as WMM-PowerSave (aka 802.11e U-APSD) for greatly enhanced battery life, and make the WiFi bits easier to manage (Cisco AutoRF, Aruba ARM, and Meru Air Traffic Control).

But to Philippe’s point, it is the sum of the whole that addresses the business need.

Pej

Read Philippe’s post here.

It is truly the most wonderful time of the year – holidays, family, friends, reflections and resolutions, and the college football bowl season.  And, for those of us in IT, it’s the time when all the best and brightest products of the past 12 months are recognized with Product of the Year honors.

Product of the Year recognition came Agito’s way this week from eWEEK, as a result of its technical analysis and review of the RoamAnywhere Mobility Router.  Agito has won almost 20 awards in 2008, and eWEEK’s recognition of the innovation and enterprise benefits of RoamAnywhere is especially gratifying since it came as a result of a technical analyst’s review and hands-on experience of the solution.  Of all the products that eWEEK evaluated each week in 2008, Agito’s RoamAnywhere was judged as one of the standouts, and the best in its class, including over competing products that were reviewed.

From eWEEK’s review of RoamAnywhere v2.0, Agito’s enterprise mobility solution was highlighted for its superior WiFi/cellular networks roaming innovation, and ability to provide superior cost savings for enterprises.  The review pointed out Agito’s security capabilities, and discussed positive results of reviewing Agito’s differentiating high-availability and scaling features.  A main focus of the review was the lab analysts’ testing and experience with Agito’s handoff metrics and superior methods of handing over calls between in building and cellular networks, resulting in an entirely seamless experience for the reviewer.  The testing was completed successfully on Nokia and Windows Mobile (AT&T Tilt) phones.  Setting Agito apart from similar solutions reviewed in 2008 was also Agito’s unique Dual Persona™ innovation – allowing the user to place calls in either personal mode – using the cell phone number – or in corporate mode, using the PBX extension.

Agito’s industry recognition in 2008 has truly been unmatched in the marketplace, making the past 12 months a wonderful time for the company, and validating the solution’s value for our growing customer base.

Dan Spalding

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As mentioned in the video, links to:
Agito-Avaya Configuration Notes
RoamAnywhere Mobility Router
Supported Handsets
White Papers: Get Fixed Mobile Convergence Today & Science of Multi-Network Handover
Avaya Compliance Press Release

Pej

We had the opportunity to join Cisco, Nokia and Bryant University on Cisco’s Mobility TV to talk about how we are working together with one of our eFMC ecosystem partner to deliver a joint solution.  While it was exciting to be able to talk about our industry-leading product in a forum such as this, what was the most interesting to me was hearing how one of our users, Bryant University, has benefited from the Agito product and improved the end-user experience of Voice over WLAN.

The Mobility TV webcast, “Optimize Your Mobile User Voice Experience Across Multiple Networks”, and presentation slides are now available for archived viewing at the following location.  I recommend you take the time to view it and hear about our joint solution with Cisco and Nokia along with some reflections from Bryant University.

View the webcast now:   http://www.cisco.com/go/mobilitytv

Christian

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