One of the topics I regularly cover at my personal blog is "Indicators" that the world is becoming more mobile. Over the past few weeks, as I've been collecting these indicators, two trends popped to the top that should make the Seamless Enterprise crowd sit up and take notice. 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...

I honestly believe that mobility is driving as much change into how we live and how we work as the Internet did in the 1990s and the PC did in the 1980s. I’m convinced that as companies adopt mobility it fundamentally changes business processes, organizational structures, and the basic ways in which companies communicate internally and externally. (I’m so much of a believer, I wrote a book on the topic.) More...

If consolidating your communications infrastructure into a unified network is in your plans, then MPLS is in your future. While many service providers operate both legacy and MPLS networks, Sprint has invested heavily in an all-IP/MPLS core network. We may not have been the first to build an MPLS network, but we have dedicated the time and resources to building what we feel is the premier MPLS network, an infrastructure that supports wireline and wireless access options on a single network.More...

When we use the term convergence, we most often use it in a technical sense – bringing voice, video, and data together on a single IP connection, or perhaps bringing fixed wireline networks together with mobile wireless technologies. At an end user level, convergence appears seamless. But behind the scenes, it is more complex.More...

It seems Sprint has come full circle. What started as a traditional local telephone company evolved to become the first all-fiber-optic long-distance phone company, which morphed into a full-service phone company with local, long distance, and wireless solutions.  Then a couple of years ago we spun off our Local Telephone Division but proceeded to build a VoIP CLEC with our cable partners. That CLEC is now larger than the local business we spun off, with a local service footprint larger than Verizon.  Revenue from our IP services for wholesale and retail business customers has grown 42 percent year-over-year. All of this is possible because Sprint has committed to an all-IP network designed for convergence. 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...

Everybody’s talking about convergence these days. What amazes me is how everyone says they are doing it, but there is no consensus about what it means. So you may already have a converged network without even knowing it. More...

You may have read that Sprint recently announced it is upgrading its networks to 4G. The new network has already been deployed in 25 U.S. cities with further deployments in the U.S. and internationally on the horizon. Why is this a big deal? Here’s why: More...

Analyst Brownlee Thomas of Forrester Research has called 2008 the year of convergence for multinational corporations. By the end of this year, Forrester predicts 83 percent of multinationals will complete migration to an IP-based platform, such as MPLS, that will allow them to deploy converged applications more efficiently across their entire network. More...