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Agito claims success in Wi-Fi/cellular integrationby Tony Dennis UMA [(Unlicensed Mobile Access] based systems like BT's Fusion gave truly converged Wi-Fi and cellular solutions a bad name. But Agito Networks really does seemed to have cracked the problem with a 100 ms handover time. The most impressive claim made by Agito's co-founder, Pejman Roshan, is that his company's software stack is so efficient that dual-mode [cellular/Wi-fi] handsets can last longer on the Wi-Fi connexion than on an ordinary cellular link. Given the massive drain on the battery that rival solutions – such as Devicescape – have perpetuated, this is an extremely impressive claim and one which I anticipate will be proved by independent labs. The distinguishing feature to Agito's offering is that it is entirely corporate/campus orientated. The aim is to let a dual-mode handset replace the desktop phone as a communications tool. This is hot-desking par excellence. Agito's client software employs least cost routing to connect calls via a switchboard wherever possible. The aim being to reduce cost via utilising IP/Internet telephony if available. The best bit is that Agito's current software client works in the background on a wide range of Symbian and Windows Mobile based smartphones. Crackberry and Ithingey support will follow shortly. The demo which I saw showed how easy it will be to treat a mobile phone as an extension phone. Shortcode dialling, call transfer and all of that corporate stuff are possible without the overhead of a desktop handset. To address corporate worries over data security, Agito actually employs SSL so this solution should get passed even the harshest of network managers. Roshan was also dropping massive hints as to how Agito will become the silent intermediary between physical networks and applications. At present, the Agito solution is sold almost entirely as a voice
based offering. But there's no reason why other applications shouldn't
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