Agito Networks Only Enterprise Fixed Mobile Convergence Company Distinguished Out of CRN's Listing of More Than 175 Top Emerging Technology Vendors SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 8
SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Agito Networks, Inc.(TM), the
company delivering new technology in enterprise mobility, today announced that
it has been recognized as a Coolest Emerging Technology Vendor for 2008 by
Everything Channel's CRN Magazine. CRN is the publication providing news
analysis and perspective to the solution provider community.
Agito was listed as the No. 2 Coolest Emerging Technology Vendor for 2008,
chosen from the select list of 178 companies in the CRN 2008 Emerging
Technology Vendors report. CRN's Emerging Tech list captures companies that
are delivering high margins for solution providers with innovative and
easy-to-use technology. To see Agito's Coolest Emerging Technology Vendor
write up, please see Agito as No. 2 at:
http://www.crn.com/it-channel/208801194
"New and innovative vendor partners can help spur profitable new ideas
that solution providers can use to build revenue and customer loyalty, and the
CRN Emerging Tech list is where solution providers go to find these vendors,"
said Robert C. Demarzo, senior vice president and editorial director,
Everything Channel editorial. "We congratulate Agito Networks for making our
Coolest Emerging Technology Vendor list, distinguishing them among the most
innovative and channel friendly companies recognized in our Emerging
Technology Vendor report this year."
Vendors who make the CRN Emerging Tech list must have an established
solution provider program and formal guidelines for recruiting channel
partners. They must demonstrate that their direct sales mix is trending down
as evidenced by the company's revenue history, show a channel positive or
channel neutral strategy for internal sales compensation, and not be a
dominant market share player. Final selections to the Emerging Technology
list, and for the Coolest Vendors on the list, were made by the CRN editorial
team after a review of submitted information and conversations with current or
targeted partners.
"The CRN Emerging Tech report provides resellers with important
information they need to help increase sales with the latest in innovative
solutions," said Jeff Dolce, Agito Networks vice president of sales. "We are
proud to be called out as one of this year's top emerging technology
companies. Solution providers continue to partner with Agito due to our
leading enterprise fixed mobile convergence (eFMC) product seeing growing
demand in the industry, which provides partners with revenue opportunities
early on in a market predicted to grow substantially over the next few years."
According to the CRN Emerging Tech Survey, the top reasons solution
providers add emerging technologies include: The technology is superior to
other products in the market segment; the technology compliments their
existing practice areas; emerging vendors provide better services
opportunities; emerging vendors pay better attention to partners; emerging
vendors offer higher margins; customers want alternative product choices; and
emerging vendors have better joint marketing programs. In addition, 61
percent of solution providers surveyed plan to increase the number of emerging
technology vendors they partner with in the next 12 months.
Agito's award-winning RoamAnywhere(TM) Mobility Router is the industry's
first complete eFMC solution, combining both the "Network Layer" and the
"Application Layer" approaches to FMC to increase mobile worker productivity
and reduce cellular expenses (http://www.agitonetworks.com/products). By
integrating into enterprises' existing PBXes without tampering with the desk
phone like other solutions require, Agito Networks provides Application-Layer
FMC features such as a single enterprise phone number and voicemail for a
user's desk phone and mobile phone, and key enterprise desk phone features
extended to users' mobile phones.
At the Network Layer, RoamAnywhere delivers the industry's fastest,
sub-100ms automatic location-aware handover between WiFi and cellular
networks. Fast, automatic handover enables enterprises to provide their
mobile workers low-cost in-building coverage, with drastically reduced
cellular expenses and no requirement for cellular data plans. Administrators
have greater visibility and control into mobile usage with granular
identity-based reporting and CDRs, and mobile policies that adapt to users'
locations, including Agito's patent-pending battery savings policies.
RoamAnywhere is an appliance built with a stateful high-availability eFMC
architecture, and is enterprise-ready for deployments of all sizes, scaling
from 10 to 1,000 simultaneous users. It also natively integrates with Cisco's
Unified Wireless Network family, as well as with Microsoft Active Directory
and LDAP to support identity-based mobility.
About CRN
CRN provides solution providers and technology integrators with the
crucial information and analysis they need to drive their company's sales. As
an advocate for and voice of the IT channel, solution providers turn to CRN
first for immediate information. Celebrating its 25th year, CRN is the most
trusted source for channel professionals. CRN can be found on the web at
http://www.channelweb.com.
About Everything Channel
Everything Channel, formerly CMP Channel, is the global leader in
technology sales and serves as the one stop shop for the sales channel that
drives 75 percent of technology sales throughout the world. IT suppliers and
Solution Providers turn to Everything Channel to manage and accelerate their
businesses. Everything Channel provides the answer to strategy and branding,
online marketing, research/market intelligence, lead generation, branded and
custom events, education and workflow tools targeted to those who buy and sell
through the Channel. Everything Channel is a subsidiary of United Business
Media (http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com/), a global provider of news
distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization
of more than $2.5 billion.
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 Red Herring 100 winner, Agito was named a Coolest Emerging
Technology Vendor for 2008 by CRN. RoamAnywhere has received numerous
industry awards, including earning CTIA Emerging Technology and eWEEK
Excellence awards, and receiving Product of the Year honors from Unified
Communications and Internet Telephony magazines. CTO Timothy Olson was also
named one of the Best CTOs of 2008 by InfoWorld. Founded in 2006 and
headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., the company is venture backed by Battery
Ventures, Castile Ventures and ITX International. 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
SOURCE Agito Networks, Inc.
