Often when we talk about SIP Trunking here, we focus on the mechanics of the technology and the benefits it brings. But implementing SIP Trunking does mean some real changes for the front-line people who make voice and data communications work in the enterprise. More...

I was chatting recently with Jeff Nossan, a Global Converged Solutions Manager with Sprint, about WAN acceleration. The purpose for deploying WAN acceleration technologies is to give enterprises and organizations fine-grained control over WAN traffic. They can have business-critical applications accelerated, unimportant traffic managed, and malicious traffic mitigated. The result is better application and network responsiveness, not to mention reduced bandwidth utilization. More...

When I think of Silver, Gold or Platinum, I think of categories of frequent fliers--but that nomenclature has made its way into networking as well, as a way for carriers to describe the class of service assigned to MPLS traffic. 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...

We often talk about the importance and the value of the Sprint MPLS network, but we realized that rarely do we talk much about the mechanics of that network. More...

Well, I proved that I’m not particularly expert at picking the NCAA winners and losers in my March Madness post of last week. But hey, I did just about as well as President Obama (tournament that is…economic plan still TBD). More...

So how productive do you think the college basketball fans in your company were last week, thanks to that live streaming of the first round of the NCAA Tournament online? Not only that, but how did your network do with all of that bandwidth chewed by folks sitting at their desk and using the web to watch their favorite team? Although the presumption is that personal productivity declined last week, how about your network? Email seem a little slower? How about web services? And those of you working remotely or on business travel, did you have trouble accessing your company’s LAN? When employees were being productive, how did the network survive with all of that video going across your network? More...

Wouldn’t it be great if you could leave the office at 5:30 p.m. and hop right on an uncrowded expressway for the drive home? So instead of a 45-minute commute, it took 15 minutes, like it should? More...