ShoreTel buys Agito, adds mobility play for UC

Word has been circulating around the industry, there is money to be made in enterprise mobility. ShoreTel (NASDAQ: SHOR), a provider of IP phone systems with fully integrated unified communications (UC), today announced it has acquired Agito Networks, provider of platform-agnostic enterprise mobility, for about $11.4 million.

The purchase adds Agito's technology which puts the deskphone on to the users mobile phone. Voice and UC features available today, including enterprise call-control capabilities, voice over WLAN with superior voice quality, as well as presence and location found on the desktop will be transfered to Shoretel's customers when they go mobile.

With the addition of Agito, ShoreTel will offer native support for  smartphones including BlackBerry, iPhone, iPad, Nokia, and Windows-Mobile smartphones, reducing integration complexities for enterprise IT. The solution has heterogeneous PBX and UC support for other vendors, including Cisco, Avaya and Microsoft, as well as legacy TDM PBXs.

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