“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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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

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