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What is Enterprise FMC?

April 26, 2017Enterprise FMC

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What is Enterprise FMC?

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The term “Fixed Mobile Convergence (News – Alert)” (FMC) is clearly defined in the carrier world. It means seamless transition of calls in progress between cellular and WiFi connections on a dual-mode mobile phone. The technologies used are UMA (Kineto’s Unlicenced Mobile Access) or the VCC (Voice Call Continuity) part of the IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem (News – Alert)) specification. A natural side effect of carrier FMC is that the phone has a single phone number spanning both the cellular and WiFi networks. Carrier FMC also has data session continuity to complement the voice session continuity, but the defining characteristic of carrier FMC remains seamless session continuity between the cellular network and WiFi (News – Alert) through the Internet. One might think that Enterprise FMC would be as clearly defined, but it’s not. For years vendors without seamless session continuity solutions have used the term “Enterprise FMC” for various other capabilities instead. This means that whe