Hi All

I am pleased to announce the Agito for iPhone solution is in the Apple AppStore.  You can use the following URL to jump directly to it

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/roamanywhere-dialer/id370295498?mt=8

As well, here is a quick run through of the Agito for iPhone client:

Thanks,

Pej

I read an interesting article from Michael Morisy at SearchUnifiedCommunications.com which describes the Google Voice application for BlackBerry that was released this week.  Google Voice provides single number reach for personal use to ring your mobile and home phones, as Agito RoamAnywhere does for enterprise use. Where Agito differs is that we have focused on the enterprise requirements and thus provide integration wiith the enterprise PBX and UC infrastructure along with enabling VoWLAN and seamless sub-100ms WiFi to/from Cellular handover.

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One of the observations that Michael made and we also see is that Google Voice doesn’t support Voice over WiFi that Agito does support.  One of the interesting benefits of Agito for Google Voice is that if a customer has deployed Agito RoamAnywhere then when  calls are made through Google Voice on the BlackBerry is that we are able to co-exist and automatically route those calls as VoIP over the enterprise WiFi thus eliminating the need for use of cellular minutes when in a WiFi area. огромные сиськи в мире

Check out the brief demo video below that shows an example of me placing a call with the Google Voice Application and it being automatically routed with VoIP over WLAN.

Learn more about Agito for BlackBerry and how it can help your enterprise (and enable VoWLAN for your Google Voice).

Request a Demo

Cheers,

Christian

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.

As we become more mobile in how we conduct business, the desire to lighten the load of equipment we need to carry is growing.  With the availability of a large number of dual-mode (cellular and WiFi) smartphones now, it is a reality to be able to leave the office without a laptop and still remain connected and productive.  In fact, we can be more productive than ever by being connected, enabling us to be reached and being accessible on our enterprise phone number regardless of location or network (office, cellular, home and hotel WiFi).  With solutions such as Agito’s RoamAnywhere Dual Persona™ which enable you to maintain both personal and enterprise contexts on a single device this even allows you to eliminate the need to carry multiple cellular phones, or a cellular phone and a VoWLAN phone, to maintain both identities.

The initial drive has been to extend enterprise applications such as Citrix, Oracle, Salesforce.com,  SAP, Sybase and others to mobile devices.  There is a great report that was released this month from InformationWeek( http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal_tech/smartphones/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210605369) that highlights how these business applications are being mobilized on multiple smartphone platforms.  Now with solutions such as the Agito Networks RoamAnywhere Mobility Router, one can also mobilize enterprise voice to leverage the office PBX.

As echoed by organizations that were contacted by the InformationWeek article writers, security is a key concern for extending enterprise information to mobile devices.  Agito has recognized this need and developed an architecture to support Secure Remote Voice  to provide a best-of-breed security solution that leverages tried and true SSL that has been optimized for application-layer voice transport.

When I go on the road for short business trips or local meetings outside the office, I no longer bring my laptop.  Yet I can still access my email, enterprise applications and my office phone over cellular or WLAN networks.  When I want to call a co-worker I simply dial their 4-digit extension to reach them or lookup their number with the secure enterprise directory query capability from my phone.  I can also easily initiate a conference bridge on my handheld phone, leveraging services from our office PBX.

With the availability of enterprise applications and Fixed Mobile Convergence now available on today’s wide range of smartphones in a secure manner you no longer need to be tethered to your computer in order to be effective.  Learn more about how Agito can mobilize your enterprise PBX and leverage enterprise and non-enterprise WiFi to extend and secure your mobile voice while providing cost savings for your organization in today’s economic environment.

Christian

Read about the Agito RoamAnywhere Mobility Router
Agito Offers the Broadest Handset Support

“Can calls be made over WiFi with a dual-mode phone from 35,000 feet on a cross-country flight?”  This was a challenge one of my peers proposed recently so we decided to test it out on a recent flight between San Francisco and New York with the in-flight WiFi service as you can see in the video here.

It is quite amazing how far the technology has come to be able to enable high quality SSL-secured calls over in-flight WiFi service to place a call to a coworker.  Since use of the cellular radio for placing phone calls is currently banned by the FAA, before having access to the WiFi on a handset, there was no way to place a call without pulling out your laptop.  Now you have the ability to disable the cellular radio from your phone and leverage the WiFi connection for applications such as secure voice.

As for the future of in-flight calling, that is unclear with Bill H.R. 5788

currently being considered, which if passed would ban voice communications on any device in-flight.  We aren’t sure either if we want our neighbors on the plane chatting through a long flight.

What is clear though is that the technology is available today to make secure and simple VoIP communications over the WLAN even with today’s handsets and challenging WLAN environments.

To find out more about Agito’s Secure Remote Voice, visit www.agitonetworks.com/Mobility_Router_SRV.php for an overview and request a demo.

Pej

“Healthy alliances are crucial to making a leader’s vision become a reality.“
-Abraham Lincoln

What Lincoln said in the 1860’s still rings true today! Enterprise Fixed Mobile Convergence (eFMC) enables enterprises to be more agile and competitive by taking advantage of their existing PBX infrastructure and enterprise WiFi deployment to reduce cellular costs and make their mobile workers more accessible and responsible as well as provide them better in-building coverage. Key to making this a reality has been enterprise WLANs. WiFi provides a robust, battery efficient wireless infrastructure to support real time applications like voice and video, and has done so for many years. Agito has now announced technology partnerships with every leading enterprise WLAN vendor, underscoring our corporate strategy of collaborating and natively integrating in with our ecosystem of leading PBXs, Wireless LANs and Smartphones. We are proud to be the only eFMC company to have this distinction.

Yesterday Trapeze Networks announced joint interoperability with Agito Networks RoamAnywhere solution. This adds to our existing partnerships with leading WLAN vendors including Cisco, Aruba, Meru and Aerohive. Working closely with our wireless LAN ecosystem partners, Agito is able to deliver a robust, well-integrated Voice over WLAN solution to our customers. With our native integration into radio management from market leaders Cisco and Aruba, customers get peace of mind knowing that their wireless LAN is working in harmony with their mobility appliance. Agito’s RoamAnywhere Mobility Router is designed using RFC-based open standards to simplify 3rd party integration. Enterprises can rest assured that whatever infrastructure they choose to deploy, Agito will integrate natively to support their environment.

Sandeep

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Read the Agito eFMC Whitepaper

You’ve seen this subject covered here before, so I won’t harp too hard on it. The industry is doing that for us. If you are an enterprise, the carriers continue to ignore you when it comes to your mobility needs and support for your mobile workers. And then again, maybe not.

I was asked to join a panel debate at Interop New York/Mobile Business Expo (MBX) this week that focused on highlighting the different methods of convergence, and the solutions that are best for which environments. Tech Target’s Shamus McGillicuddy did a nice preview of the session and what attendees could expect, including having an interview with Michael Finneran, the moderator.

What is interesting is that mobile operators are clearly NOT delivering the IMS-integrated solutions promised for so many years. I remember I was on an FMC panel at last year’s Interop NY/MBX event, which did have a carrier (Verizon) on the panel. It was clear soon into it that the poor guy did not belong, and he became an easy target. Even the audience got into the act, asking him about his company’s offering. His response? “I got nothing.” As Shamus highlights, the Interop gang could not even get a carrier representative to make an appearance on the panel. Silence speaks volumes.

But something more interesting is happening. Carriers are looking to eFMC companies – Agito in particular – to deliver these capabilities to enterprises. Our close partnerships with Cisco and Avaya have enterprises telling carriers to work with Agito, and they are! (More on that later).

At MBX this week, we demonstrated publicly for the first time the next release of the RoamAnywhere Mobility Router. Here’s a view into our booth from CRN magazine, which named the new RoamAnywhere one of the Hot On-the-Go Solutions from the conference.

Industry firsts delivered from this new solution include Secure Remote Voice for secure VoWLAN, Dual Persona for converged business and personal communications on one device, advances in Dynamic Least Cost Routing for additional cost savings, and the broadest PBX and Symbian/Windows Mobile handset support available.

Pej

Read Shamus McGillicuddy’s article

Learn more about Secure Remote Voice
Learn more about Dual Persona
Learn more about Agito’s handset support

In the last IEEE meeting I attended I had the good fortune to participate in the celebration of the completion of the work done by the IEEE 802.11k task group. As one of the original co-authors of the specification I had the privilege of attending a very nice celebration dinner. This was very satisfying for me as I attended nearly every IEEE meeting for more than 3 years with one of my key focus areas to complete the job in 802.11k. I am very proud of my contribution to this group and give much thanks to Richard Paine, our group chairman, who remained at the helm for duration of the task group.

For those of you not familiar with this group, we were tasked with standardizing many 802.11 radio measurements that were largely already available in most 802.11 client adapters and in 802.11 network infrastructure. In addition to defining these measurements, we also needed a standard way to exchange the measurement information between the client adapters and the network infrastructure.

The first question that might come to mind is why? The value of radio measurements is unanimously agreed upon in the wireless community. By measuring the RF environment good decisions can be made about both how to manage the wireless network as well as how the wireless network functions. Measurements allow us engineers to develop products that make good decisions about very important RF characteristics such as channels selection, power settings, data rate selection, network selection, etc. By exposing and controlling this information between the network and the client the 802.11 WLAN network simply works better.
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As mentioned in the video, links to the:

Agito eFMC Whitepaper
Cisco Motion Press Release
Agito/Cisco Partnership Press Releases
Agito Product Demo

Pej

There was an exciting announcement this week from Cisco and Agito Networks about how the two companies are partnering to provide an integrated enterprise fixed mobile convergence (eFMC) solution for Cisco customers. This effort validates what our Agito customers have already learned. That is, only Agito’s user location (click here to learn more about our location technology and architecture) and integration with the wireless networks – whether it is the home, public, or enterprise network – provides the best possible mobile voice user experience. This is why Agito is the only enterprise mobility company invited to integrate with Cisco at this stage. It also goes without saying that it is also great to see a leader such as Cisco recognizing the importance of enterprise mobility for customers to improve their business operations, a validation of the eFMC space.

But don’t just take our word for it. Industry reception of this integration has also been extremely positive. To see some of the best coverage we’ve seen, check out Agito’s coverage page which we’ll be updating with this launch coverage periodically this week. While Cisco has the brand recognition, the huge installed base, and a leading WLAN system, most editor and analysts understand Agito’s innovation, and contribution in this partnership. Agito’s integration into the MSE will provide:

• Intelligent, seamless roaming between Cisco’s WLAN in-building networks and cellular networks. It’s Agito’s handover capability from WiFi to cell, and cell to WiFi (not just Cisco WiFi, but home WiFi for example) that is being leveraged for this solution.
• Robust context awareness of networks outside of Cisco’s WLAN (cellular, home, etc.). Cisco provides intelligence within the network, and it’s Agito’s client on the mobile device that provides intelligence when mobile users are outside Cisco’s network.
• Mobile UC functionality extended to mobile users. The MSE connects to the Agito client on the mobile device, but it’s Agito’s RoamAnywhere Mobility Router that connects the device to the enterprise PBX and provides all the mobile UC functionality.
• Mobility policies capabilities – Agito’s location-based policies are leveraged, especially polices applied when outside the network, where Agito has the visibility.

For Agito, Cisco adds network intelligence, information from Cisco’s Unified Wireless Network, to Agito’s RoamAnywhere as an optional metric to help determine the time and place for wireless network handover. Agito’s RoamAnywhere already uses the industry’s most robust set of metrics to determine WiFi/cellular routing – including user location, call cost, battery life, call quality, network reliability, user load and signal strength.

As enterprise mobility becomes a business critical need for enterprises, Agito’s RoamAnywhere products make up the only enterprise-ready mobility architecture with high-availability; a scalable, non-blocking architecture; and LDAP/ActiveDirectory (click here for more details) integration for ease of deployment that enterprises require. Agito brings a solution for enterprise mobility, and mobile UC to Cisco customers.

Christian

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