* Introducing DiVitas Networks
DiVitas Networks is a start-up founded in April 2005 and is focused on expanding the reach of mobile communications. The company offers an appliance that is designed to extend the reach of mobile devices so that they can use traditional cellular services, as well as corporate Wi-Fi networks and access the Internet via public Wi-Fi hot spots.
DiVitas’ product monitors network availability and signal quality and provides fast handoff from one network type to another, regardless of the service provider being used. In addition to traditional cellular roaming, DiVitas’ solution also offers Wi-Fi roaming. The system provides strong security, using application-layer authentication, access control and authorization.
The goal of the DiVitas system is to make it easier for end users to continue to use corporate applications on their mobile device, regardless of their location or the particular network service to which they have access at any given time. For enterprises, the strength of the system lies in its ability to cost effectively provide communications and application services to all users, whether they are in-house or traveling, plus the ability to extend presence capabilities more completely.
Because the DiVitas system can potentially make it cost effective to provide mobile handsets to all employees owing to the ability to communicate via in-house Wi-Fi networks, one of the more interesting aspects of the DiVitas solution is that it can allow organizations to extend presence more completely among employees. By replacing desktop-based telephones, presence information can be extended beyond the desktop and can be used more effectively and completely.
Given that the DiVitas solution can be deployed on a wide variety of handsets and is infrastructure-independent, the goal of the company is to partner with a variety of mobile and related providers of hardware and services, including a variety of handset vendors, wireless infrastructure providers and others.
