Agito Unveils New VoIP Platform for RIM’s BlackBerry
Agito Networks has announced that it would be expanding its mobile unified communications (UC) offering to bring VoIP over Wi-Fi to the most popular BlackBerry devices. The development expands Agito’s RoamAnywhere Mobility Router, and aims to help integrate UC into organizations’ mobile devices, including Research in Motion (RIM) smartphones.
Agito is best known for its RoamAnywhere mobility router which is an appliance that lets dual-mode phones connect to the company’s PBX over Wi-Fi and act as extensions. It uses location technology to determine when to hand over between Wi-Fi, IP and cellular networks.
RoamAnywhere has previously only connected to Nokia (Symbian) and Windows Mobile devices, allowing those handsets to hold, conference, or transfer a call, as well as making use of the usual single enterprise number (for both the desktop phone and mobile), voice, directory query and call retrieve, with sub 100 millisecond handover.
Until now, the lack of support for BlackBerry handsets has been a serious oversight considering the handset’s dominance in the business sector. Indeed, Gartner says that RIM’s OS had the second highest market share based on smart phone sales to end users worldwide in Q1 2009, a position that was maintained from Q1 2008.
But Agito was not to blame for this oversight, as RIM has a ‘closed and proprietary’ operating system, with ‘limited APIs for VoIP and Wi-Fi.’ Boasting an automatic sub-100 millisecond handover across Wi-Fi and cellular networks, RoamAnywhere also features international direct dialling and roaming, least-cost routing, reverse dialling, automatic SIM swap, and dynamic calling rules.
The BlackBerry support is currently running as a closed beta trial, and is due to be available from mid-July.
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