Anthony Marano Rolls Out RoamAnywhere to Improve Productivity of Staff in Produce Distribution Company with Enhanced Coverage and Quality for Critical Wireless Voice Communication SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 11
SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Agito Networks, Inc.(TM), the
award-winning company delivering new technology in enterprise mobility, today
announced that Anthony Marano Company, a leading produce distribution company,
has purchased and is deploying the award-winning Agito RoamAnywhere(TM)
Mobility Router (http://www.agitonetworks.com/products) to improve the
reliability and quality of its infrastructure for critical voice
communications.
Located near downtown Chicago, Anthony Marano Company serves the Midwest
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. Now with Agito's RoamAnywhere, Anthony Marano
enables continuous high-quality voice coverage for its mobile staff, which
needs to be accessible at all times to receive and fulfill orders throughout
the day.
"The primary focus of this rollout has been our sales staff, buyers and
management team, because their productivity is the key to our success," said
Christopher Nowak, CTO at Anthony Marano. "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. In addition to addressing our coverage
issues, we also need superior voice quality since our handheld devices will be
the primary means of communication for our employees. Agito's unique seamless
handoff capability promises to be a technological leap from previous solutions
we have seen and tried."
According to Nowak, Anthony Marano's large metal and concrete facility
makes cellular communications impossible for the staff which is constantly on
the move between inside produce areas, shipping docks, receiving docks and
internal offices. Accessibility is critical because the staff deals with
fresh produce, a perishable commodity. Up to 3,000 produce orders are placed
and fulfilled each day, and approximately 90 percent of orders are shipped the
day they are received. A missed call could easily cost the company thousands
of dollars, Nowak said.
"We have just-in-time delivery that parallels financial markets," said
Nowak. "We work in a competitive market where we need fast responsiveness,
and we need the very best in voice quality. Agito gives us a competitive
advantage because we now have the ability to respond quickly. Customers rely
on us to have the right product at the right time for the right price."
"Anthony Marano's state-of-the-art facility is a leading produce
distribution center in the United States," said Jeff Dolce, Agito Networks
vice president of sales. "We are pleased to be working with them to ensure
that their sales and purchasing staffs have high-quality synchronous
communication to ensure their responsiveness and the viability of their
business. Enterprises are continuing to see the value of an enterprise fixed
mobile convergence (eFMC) solution that provides the best coverage and voice
quality possible, and scales to meet their needs."
Anthony Marano's eFMC ecosystem consists of Meru Networks WLAN access
points, an Avaya Definity 8710 PBX, T-Mobile and AT&T cellular service, and
Nokia E51 and E61 Series smart phones. They also use Microsoft Exchange 2007.
According to Nowak, Agito's RoamAnywhere is Anthony Marano's third attempt at
an enterprise mobility system.
"Agito offers us the whole package, and our users say they say they are
impressed with the voice quality, address look up synchronization, and speed
of handover moving inside and out," said Nowak. "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 excellent voice quality over WiFi. It
gives us a big boost in productivity, and was easy to deploy on the
administrative side. Nothing can enhance our staff's productivity better than
voice quality."
About Agito's RoamAnywhere Mobility Router
The award-winning RoamAnywhere is the industry's first and only business
mobile convergence platform that uses RF-based, location-aware technologies to
reliably mobilize voice over 802.11 wireless LANs (VoWLAN) and data
applications, while remaining agnostic to enterprise customers' choices of
mobile carriers. It supports all leading IP-PBX and WLAN equipment vendors to
uniquely fuse 802.11 wireless LANs, enterprise IP telephony, and the carrier
cellular network, improving mobile worker accessibility and responsiveness to
increase mobile worker productivity. Agito's innovative, patent-pending
location-aware technology allows enterprises to mobilize voice by taking full
advantage of their 802.11 WLAN deployments as a low-cost alternative to
cellular networks for in-building enterprise mobility. Its patent-pending
technology ensures that in-building calls stay on the enterprise WLAN (using
VoWLAN), to reduce cellular expenses and eliminate dropped or poor quality
calls. Agito Networks' comprehensive set of routing metrics used to determine
the time and place for WiFi/cellular network handover includes network cost,
load, reliability, delay, location, packet loss, battery life, call or session
quality, and signal strength to route mobile device voice calls, enabling
fast, automatic call routing between WiFi networks and cellular networks in a
more intelligent manner than any other eFMC solution. Agito's patent pending
sub-second, automatic handover of calls between WiFi and cellular is
transparent to users.
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 Networks 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. VON Magazine named Agito Networks a Top Innovator Award winner,
while RoamAnywhere has received numerous industry awards, including earning a
CTIA Emerging Technology Award and receiving Product of the Year honors from
Unified Communications and Internet Telephony magazines. Founded in 2006 and
headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., the company is venture backed, led by
Battery Ventures. Go to http://www.agitonetworks.com for more information.
Agito Networks and RoamAnywhere are trademarks of Agito Networks, Inc.
Editorial Contact:
Dan Spalding
Agito Networks, Inc.
(408) 548-8025
dspalding@agitonetworks.com
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