Like the Chicago Bulls in the 1990s, Sprint is racking up the titles year after year in the Nemertes Research Pilothouse Award for MPLS Services competition. We may not be able to claim our own Michael Jordan, but we can attribute our success to our skill at three-pointers (in this case, the three points being customer service, technology, and value).

For 2012, Nemertes named us the Top Provider among Market Challengers, thanks to superior scores in the customer service and value categories. This is the fourth year for this award, which is based solely on the judgment of some 1,500 IT decision makers surveyed by Nemertes, and Sprint has now taken the top honor for MPLS services for three of those years. More...

In a previous post, we took a close look at the mechanics of the MPLS network, offering an under-the-hood exploration of the versatility of Multiprotocol Label Switching. This time, we want to focus on what all those mechanics make possible. More...

I couldn't take notes fast enough to keep up with all the interesting information flowing out of the Sprint webinar on September 29, presented by Enterprise Connect. More...

It is almost October, when my beloved Minnesota Twins shall attempt again to do what they did in 1987 and 1991. This morning, my mother mentioned that a complete recording of a 1960's era World Series was found among the many video recordings in Bing Crosby's collection (I assumed it was on videotape, since his company, Bing Crosby Enterprises, was instrumental in the invention of videotape). So I pulled up Wikipedia, read about the history of videotape, recalled with fondness the Beta vs. VHS war of the 1980s, and then recalled a more recent "format war" from about 10 years ago. It was all about MPLS.More...

MPLS is a most interesting technology, and we’re going to be talking about it in depth in a couple of upcoming blog posts. But what matters most about any technology is what it can do for the enterprises and the people who use it. What does it enable that either wasn’t possible before, or wasn’t as easy before? More...

Maybe it’s not quite like winning the Super Bowl two years in a row, but it’s at least as good as winning your division two years running. We think so, anyway. More...