In October ’09, Sprint announced that its Emerging Solutions Unit would be focused on accelerating the delivery of M2M and mobile computing solutions. Now four months later, Paget Alves, President, Sprint Business Markets Group, shares his thoughts with us about the company’s M2M strategy and market opportunity, including industry examples. This will help you understand why there's growing interest in this technology, and Sprint's unique role. More...

Guest blogger, Bill Young, shares his insight about the recent Sprint-Tango announcement. Read what Bill has to say about the benefits of mobile unified communications.

It’s hard to overstate the significance of being able to bring Sprint Mobile Integration to most enterprise PBX or Unified Communications systems. This opens the door to the many benefits of Mobile Integration – and to truly mobile Unified Communications – for a vast range of enterprises.More...

Anyone who doubts Sprint's 4G prospects should take note of the recent results from its Business Markets Group (BMG), which fueled Sprint's impressive quarterly financial results last week. More...

This is the first in a series of blogs exploring the role and impact of security solutions for the convergence/mobility space. Check back often for additional blog posts on this subject

It is no surprise that IT budgets come under scrutiny when companies look to cut costs. In light of our economy, IT leadership teams are calculating how to balance long-term strategic needs with the daily demands of deploying and managing technology for the enterprise. In a recent webinar, Gartner addresses this very topic and provides real steps enterprises can implement now. More...

In December I had the pleasure of being a guest blogger on Pulver.com. One of the issues I addressed related to technology groundwork necessary to effectively support social media in the enterprise. Because many of our followers were on holiday and may have missed the posting on Pulver.com, I thought it would worthwhile to revisit this subject here on the Seamless Enterprise. More...

Per the SIP forum , SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) has “emerged as the protocol of choice for setting up conferencing, telephony, multimedia and other types of communication sessions on the Internet. SIP may also be used for new types of communications, such as instant messaging and application level mobility across various networks, including wireless, and across user devices.” SIP trunking today is much more than a telephony solution that lowers costs. It is the foundation for unified communications and fixed mobile convergence (FMC). Ultimately, it is about presence, and it is central to the IT communications environment. I call this the 2^nd Generation of SIP Trunking. More...

We’ve said it many times in this blog. Mobility – Mobile Integration, to be more precise – is the key to unified communications. Without mobility, you may have a great office environment, but unless everybody stays in the office (and at their desk) all the time, it’s really not UC. More...

This is the last segment in a six part series highlighting Sprint’s deployment of unified communications. To read the previous segments click on the appropriate links: How We Got Started, Planning the Move, Successful First Phase, Where We Are Today, and Lessons Learned. More...

Several research companies just announced forecasts for the Unified Communications (UC) market. Infonetics Research expects the UC market to top $1 billion by 2013, and Wainhouse Research sees the UC industry growing to a healthy $30 billion market in just five years. Should we be surprised? Are enterprises integrating UC into their plans and budgets, despite constraints, and actually deploying UC solutions? More...

For an enterprise to utilize 3G or 4G – or for that matter, embracing wireless access as a strategy – is something that many companies are giving serious thought to, especially now that 4G is steadily spreading across the country, market by market. More...