In my role as Vice President of Corporate Strategy for Sprint, I obviously need to pay attention to the shifting winds in the industry.  I thought it would be helpful to share with you seven shifts that I think will be particularly meaningful to business telecom managers. More...

Our announcement this week of Sprint’s integration of our Global MPLS network and SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) trunking with Microsoft’s Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2 (OCS 2007 R2) is significant not just because Sprint is one of the first United States-based providers of SIP Trunking services qualified for use with Office Communications Server 2007 R2, but also for what it means to businesses and their unified communications deployments. More...

The Is-VoIP-Dead debate goes on, and it’s performing a valuable public service by making us all re-examine what VoIP was, what it is now, and how it fits into the AoIP (Applications over IP) concept that Steve Parrott talked about on January 19. More...

Steve Parrott made lots of good points in his blog entry about the VoIP-is-Dead Debate, but I’d like to focus on one comment in Om Malik’s original GigaOM posting quoting Alec Saunders on VoIP. Saunders characterized VoIP this way: “Voice over IP is just a transport and signaling technology. It’s plumbing.” More...

The blogosphere has been buzzing about whether VoIP is dead, ever since Alec Saunders posted 2008: The Year that VoIP died on his blog, which lead to other posts, including a post by Om Malik on his GigaOM blog. Each has presented some interesting points though it’s a debate that I feel is missing the point. More...

If you are looking to deploy IP trunking to your IP PBX, you face an array of challenging decisions. So much for the idea that things in IP are simpler than they were in the world of TDM voice. It is the benefits of IP that also create some of its biggest challenges.More...