If you're among the thousands heading to Enterprise Connect in Orlando next week, there will be lots of opportunities to hear Sprint people offer their perspective, on everything from SIP Trunking to mobile Unified Communications.

During the course of the annual conference, five panels – four of them on Monday the 18th – will include Sprint representatives. As you're putting together your must-see Enterprise Connect schedule, here are the sessions that we recommend:

SIP Trunking: Who's Offering What? This 9 a.m. Monday roundtable discussion has a stageful of panelists, including Sprint's own Dimitrios Kioukis, Manager of Converged Solutions Engineering. The focus of this session is how an enterprise can procure the right SIP Trunking services and equipment to make a SIP technology initiative a success.More...

How many times have we made the point that Unified Communications has to be mobile in order to be truly unified? That's a rhetorical question – we don't expect you to know the answer – but let's just say that we've said it a lot.

So you can imagine how heartened we were by a recent survey, reported in a Network World article, that shows a distinct increase in demand by users for mobile UC. This survey of businesspeople in the U.S. and two other countries showed that workers are often frustrated when it comes to their existing communications options. More...

What's a mobile UC solution worth to your company? How about $5,500 per year per mobile employee?

That's the "conservative" estimate put forth by a new Webtorials white paper, titled Mobile Unified Communications: The Emergence of 4D Convergence. The "4D" reference threw us at first, but the point there is that this represents the fourth dimension, defined as independence of time and space (cue the Twilight Zone music). In other words, the session isn't determined by the factors of connectivity method, location, or device, and hence the value of a UC solution is enhanced. More...

In a recent survey, 36 percent of companies say they have deployed or are utilizing Unified Communications. So what about the other 64 percent? It’s time to take the leap; companies will simply have to deploy mobile UC to be competitive. More than a nice-to-have, it is a must-have. The list here explains why and serves as a checklist to help your enterprise move into 2012.More...