Agito Networks Customer Selected as a Finalist for Leading Analyst Firm’s Wireless & Mobile Excellence Award
company delivering new technology in enterprise mobility, today announced that
one of its enterprise mobile convergence customers has been named as a
finalist for the Gartner Wireless & Mobile Excellence Award.
Selection of the finalists for Gartner’s Wireless & Mobile Excellence
Award was determined by Gartner analysts. As a finalist,
Agito Networks customer Anthony Marano Company, will present at the Gartner
Wireless & Mobile Summit 2009, to be held
Located near downtown
with fine fresh produce from its state-of-the-art distribution center. The
400,000 square foot facility contains 73 docks to receive and ship more than
1,400 types of fresh produce. With Agito’s RoamAnywhere(TM) Mobility
Router(TM), Anthony Marano Company enables continuous high-quality voice
coverage for its mobile produce buyers and sellers, which need to be
accessible at all times to receive and fulfill an average of 3,000 orders
throughout the day.
According to Nowak, Anthony Marano Company’s large metal and concrete
facility makes cellular communications impossible for the staff which is
constantly on the move between produce areas, shipping docks, receiving docks,
and internal and nearby offices. Accessibility is critical because the staff
deals with fresh produce, a perishable commodity. A missed call could easily
cost the company thousands of dollars, Nowak said.
“We are more successful and make more money when our buyers and sales
staff get calls the first time around, and calls don’t land in voice mail,”
said Nowak. “In addition to addressing our coverage issues, Agito delivers
high-quality voice, which is critical for us because our handheld devices are
the primary means of communication. RoamAnywhere’s unique seamless handoff
capability is a technological leap from previous solutions we have seen and
tried. Its high availability is also very important to us.”
Nowak noted that Anthony Marano Company’s previous mobile convergence
solution was an Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) system, which did not integrate
into the company’s Avaya Definity 8710 PBX or give mobile users the unified
communications functionalities they required. In addition to Agito’s
RoamAnywhere and Avaya’s PBX, Anthony Marano Company’s enterprise mobile
convergence ecosystem also includes T-Mobile and AT&T cellular service, Nokia
E66 and E71 Series smart phones, and Meru Networks WLAN access points.
“Agito gives us a competitive advantage because we now have the ability to
respond quickly,” said Nowak. “RoamAnywhere offers us the whole package, and
our users they are impressed with the voice quality, address look up
synchronization, and speed of handover moving inside and out. Agito lets us
be productive and mobile with the fastest seamless handover we’ve seen, unlike
previous solutions we’ve had, and it provides us with excellent voice quality
over WiFi. It gives us a big boost in productivity, and was easy to deploy on
the administrative side.”
Agito Networks’ award-winning RoamAnywhere Mobility Router uniquely fuses
WiFi, cellular, IP telephony, and location information, improving the
accessibility and responsiveness of mobile workers, while drastically reducing
mobile costs (http://www.agitonetworks.com/products). RoamAnywhere mobilizes
voice and unified communications for enterprises of all sizes, extending PBX
and deskphone features to mobile phones. In addition, RoamAnywhere provides
industry-leading handover between WiFi and cellular networks to reduce
cellular costs and improve in-building coverage. Purpose-built for the
enterprise, RoamAnywhere uniquely offers high availability, redundancy,
security, enterprise scalability, and the industry’s broadest mobile handset
and IP-PBX support. It works with all cellular network technology, and
natively integrates with enterprises’ existing equipment, including WLAN
infrastructure and directory stores.
“This is a distinct honor for one of our valued customers, and we are
pleased to see them recognized for their efforts,” said
Networks vice president of marketing and the company’s co-founder. “The
industry is always interested in real-world benefits of enterprise mobile
convergence solutions, and Anthony Marano Company is a good example of how
organizations can improve voice coverage and increase productivity and revenue
by leveraging a state-of-the-art enterprise mobile convergence solution such
as RoamAnywhere.”
About the Gartner Wireless & Mobile Summit
Gartner Wireless & Mobile Summit offers new concepts and best practices to
increase ROI on wireless investment, insights on the future of wireless, and
unbiased perspectives on devices, systems, integration and the latest trends.
The summit provides the critical information necessary to make the best
choices to reduce costs, while maximizing current and new mobile initiatives.
Additional information is available at http://www.gartner.com/us/wireless.
About Agito Networks
Agito Networks is the award-winning technology leader in enterprise
mobility. Its product, the RoamAnywhere Mobility Router, is an innovative
enterprise fixed mobile convergence (eFMC) platform enabling enterprises to
extend voice and Unified Communications to cell phones. RoamAnywhere is the
first and only network appliance that fuses enterprise wireless LANs, carrier
cellular networks, IP telephony and location technology to mobilize voice and
data applications, while remaining agnostic to customers’ choices of carrier
and equipment vendors. Agito enables low-cost in-building voice coverage,
reduced cellular costs, improved enterprise visibility and control over
cellular usage, and better accessibility and responsiveness for mobile
workers. A
Technology Vendor by CRN. RoamAnywhere has received numerous industry awards,
including earning Product of the Year honors from Unified Communications and
Internet Telephony magazines, and being named one of the Top 10 Products of
the Year by eWEEK. CTO
CTOs by InfoWorld. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in
the company is venture backed by Battery Ventures, Castile Ventures and ITX
International. Go to http://www.agitonetworks.com for more information.
Note: The identification of a Gartner Award winner is not an endorsement
by Gartner of any vendor, product or service. Agito Networks and RoamAnywhere
are trademarks of Agito Networks, Inc.
Editorial Contact:
Dan Spalding
Agito Networks, Inc.
(408) 919-8025
dspalding@agitonetworks.com
SOURCE Agito Networks, Inc.