1. February 24, 2009 by Pej Roshan

    Gartner Mobile and Wireless Live Blog

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

    “Business is mobile.”

    Pej

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  2. March 17, 2008 by admin

    Agito at the Gartner Wireless and Mobile Summit

    Wow! What a great week Agito Networks just had. On March 3-5, Agito was a sponsor and exhibitor at the Gartner Wireless & Mobile Summit, one of the premier mobility-focused shows on the conference circuit. While I didn’t attend too many of the individual sessions, Dan Spalding, my booth partner, and I had the pleasure of hosting dozens of the largest enterprises as they were searching for the next “new and exciting technology” to come to enterprise mobility for 2008. On During the event, sponsor booths were open to attendees to spend time with vendors to understand their value proposition, and experience demonstrations where available. On a side note, during my walk-through, unlike Agito, I noticed very few vendors with working demonstrations. Confirmed by event officials, Agito was in the fortunate position to have garnered significant interest at the event. Nearly every attendee who visited us was interested in increasing their company’s mobile worker productivity while reducing cellular expenses.

    Agito had success across multiple fronts:

    1. drawing large numbers of customers to our booth
    2. retaining their interest with an interactive demo
    3. being recognized by Gartner as having an innovative technology the analysts are interested in.

    Customers were attracted to our four value propositions:

    • Better In-Building Coverage
    • Extend Desk Phone features to the Mobile Phone
    • Drastically Reduce Mobile Costs
    • Increased Visibility and Control

    All of this in a platform that works with all PBXes and any wireless carrier.

    We hosted an awesome demo that showcased our “sub-second location-aware, WiFi/Cellular handover”. Customers were able to experience an actual call starting in WiFi and transparently handing off to Cellular without any interruptions and another call starting on Cellular and transparently handing off to WiFi. In many cases, users were pleasantly surprised that Agito was able to deliver this level of performance without any dependence on the carrier. Agito’s patented Location-Aware Routing architecture worked its charm. By the end of the conference, we had heard the phrase “amazing technology” quite a few times, describing our product. While these were all interesting experiences, let’s investigate some of Agito’s drivers for success during this conference.

    AgitoBooth


    Sandeep briefing a customer on the RoamAnywhere Mobility Router user interface


    Almost everyone who came by was drawn by a few words on display: “Increased In-Building Coverage” and “Works with All Cellular Carriers”. Big names in aerospace, defense, city and state government, higher education, healthcare and automotives were drawn by Agito’s value proposition of increasing in-building coverage to help improve mobile worker productivity. Having business voice become the killer application to deliver converged enterprise services over an existing in-building wireless infrastructure was compelling to customers. The excitement from the prospects about the potential benefits from Voice over WLAN (VoWLAN) was apparent, namely how Agito’s innovative eFMC platform can increase accessibility and mobile worker productivity within their global workforce, while helping them reduce cellular expenses (as much as 60% in many cases). It was clear that we had exposed a pain point and hit a sweet spot with these prospects.

    For example, a large multi-national company shared that they have relationships with all four major cellular carriers in the US, and accelerating in-building coverage for cellular using carrier-specific DAS systems would be a very expensive proposition. It would be cost-prohibitive, not to mention complex to deploy, and this infrastructure would be specific to voice within the enterprise. They are now looking at Voice over WLAN solutions that can provide “Fast and Automatic, Sub-Second handover” with support for all of their existing cellular carriers, narrowing their search to Agito. We look forward to starting our trial with this customer next quarter.

    Another customer in the consumer durables sector was interested in driving greater value out of their IP Telephony infrastructure they had put millions of dollars into. With an increasingly mobile workforce using the mobile phone as their primary phone, it was increasing their mobile costs. When we presented Agito’s Mobile Extensions features, they instantly saw how this technology could help them increase the utilization of IP Telephony, and finally blend the flexibility of a mobile phone with the value of One Enterprise Number to drive increased productivity while lowering costs.

    Overall, we had the chance to speak with over a hundred companies. Almost all of them had WLAN and IP Telephony deployed, and searching for innovative applications that can leverage this infrastructure to enhance the RoI of their investment. In many cases, Agito’s technology was the missing piece of the Mobile Convergence puzzle. Agito will be engaging with over two dozen customers in starting global trials on VoWLAN over the coming quarter.