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Welcome to Convergence 2.0
The topic of convergence receives tremendous attention in industry circles and in the media. By moving voice telephony to high-availability data networks, enterprises benefit from reduced operational expenditures, greater flexibility, and a complete integration of applications, making them more efficient and productive in a competitive and global marketplace.
However, convergence is only possible when data networks are generally open and based on industry-accepted standards, enabling enterprises to customize services and applications based on their own needs. But there is a problem: the notion of convergence in today’s enterprises primarily only addresses landline or “fixed” communications.
Enterprises taking full advantage of a converged voice and data network still wrestle with separate, and closed, cellular networks. As cellular usage can comprise up to 50% of an enterprises’ total communication costs, with dollar amounts growing every year, there is greater motivation than at any other time to more fully integrate wireless into the broader converged network. Doing so mean greater control, reduced costs, and the opportunity for a whole new breed of applications in the future.
Strata8 Redefines Fixed/Mobile Convergence
Fixed/mobile convergence (FMC) attempts to integrate the relatively “open” nature of today's landline voice and data networks with "closed" regional and national cellular networks (who have little or no economic motivation to open their own platforms to outside providers or application developers).
Applications and services have been developed to accommodate the closed nature of wireless providers, but these applications can be costly and cumbersome, with questionable real-world results.
What if the cellular network became one with the converged voice and data network? What if that network was an open platform for the development of rich new applications and services? We call it Convergence 2.0. It’s available today. From Strata8 Networks.
Strata8 Networks, through its parent company Wirefree Partners, provides Enterprise Cellular services on licensed spectrum in 16 geographic markets across the United States. And through its nationwide roaming partner, Sprint Nextel, Strata8 Networks offers wide-area cellular coverage throughout the United States. Strata8 Networks carrier-class telecommunications architecture is built on a UT Starcom, Sonus, Broadsoft and Cisco architecture, enabling medium-size to large enterprises to fully-integrate the features and applications of cellular, voice, and data services on a single platform.
In Convergence 1.0, landline voice became just another application on a data network. With Strata8 Networks Convergence 2.0, cellular and landline voice becomes a single-managed component of the entire network, offering a level of control and seamless application integration never before available.