Divitas Networks recently announced general availability of its Mobile Convergence Appliance (MCA) for the enterprise. The company has been trumpeting its technology for the last year and has performed live demonstrations at several events, but has been tight-lipped on when the product would be available for purchase. With the enterprise product now shipping, enterprises concerned with rising wireless carrier costs should investigate the offering.

What's Mobile-to-Mobile Convergence?

While there is no hard and fast definition of Mobile-to-Mobile Convergence (MMC), essentially it is the ability to roam seamlessly between different types of wireless networks. For more information on this concept, refer to the Info-Tech Advisor research note, "Cellular/Wi-Fi Voice Convergence: A Future Yet to Come." Using a voice call as an example, if a user was engaged in a conversation using their cellular phone on a wireless carrier network and came within range of an enterprise Wi-Fi network, the call could be transferred to the Wi-Fi network. The most apparent advantage comes...