In recent blog articles, I have been focusing on “Selling Technology Investments to the ‘C’ Suite.” As regular readers know, I often talk about the “Three Pillars of Technology Investment” as a model to think in business terms about how ROI is achieved. In this series, I drilled down to talk more about hard and soft costs and benefits and about the amorphous and oft-misunderstood concept of sunk or “non-differential” costs. Now I want to turn to some real world examples of technology investment in Wireless WAN (WWAN) technology using these concepts. More...

Last Friday, the Wall Street Journal captured my attention with the headline “Now, Even Granny’s Fuzzy Slippers are Texting You.”  What?  I had to read on.  The article pointed out a handful of new products that are leveraging embedded wireless data devices in a whole new way.  Yes, even slippers that “sense trouble” based upon how a person walks, falls, or “becomes wobbly,” sending a text message to the person’s caregiver, friend, or relative.  So what does this have to do with an enterprise? More...

Nearly two dozen Nobel laureates have been associated with Washington University in St. Louis, so it says something when a place that smart chooses Sprint for a major deployment of a 3G wireless network. More...

Recently released findings from Infonetics Research shows 2010 was a breakout year for SIP Trunking. Infonetics and NoJitter released some telling statistics:

•    SIP Trunking revenue grew 143 percent in 2010
•    The VoIP services market reached almost $50 billion in 2010  (compared with $34.8 billion in 2008, a 43 percent increase over two years)
•    Managed IP PBX business VoIP service revenue is expected to more than double from 2010 to 2015
•    The fastest growing segments of the VoIP services market are SIP Trunking and hosted UC telephony
•    Adoption of SIP Trunking services grew 220 percent worldwide in 2010
•    SIP Trunking is in 75 percent of Fortune 1000 companies, as enterprises continue to complete their migrations More...

The many advantages of 4G wireless for the enterprise network are the subject of a July 21 webinar, featuring Sprint’s own Solutions Engineering General Manager, Dave Fischbach, along with Sidecut Reports editor Paul Kapustka and Carl Ford, Co-Founder of Crossfire Media. More...

Vague, fuzzy terms may be good if you’re in marketing or politics, but those of us who have to build things and make them work like our concepts a bit more crisply drawn.

That’s why we at Seamless Enterprise took pains to come up with a pithy and concise definition of Unified Communications, and why we were interested when we saw in Network World about an effort to do the same with the term "telepresence." More...

As a beta user of Sprint 4G Enterprise WAN, Senior Network Engineer Greg Wagnon of Explorer Pipeline already has a lot of positive experience with it, thanks to a highly successful deployment at an Explorer Pipeline fuel storage facility in Houston. More...

Enterprises that need fast, reliable communications solutions – installed quickly – can now fill those needs with the newest broadband service from Sprint, 4G Enterprise WAN. It is the first solution of its kind in the industry to bundle 4G and 3G wireless WAN connectivity, with secure and reliable access to the Sprint Global MPLS network.More...

Enterprise IT knows it’s coming: the tsunami of wireless data, video, and voice traffic. Cisco forecasts video to dominate IP traffic in the next few years. Today, companies are virtualizing data storage and moving as much of their business to IP as they can to help curtail the data deluge. On top of that, more employees work in a virtual or mobile environment, increasing the need for wireless communication. Enter 4G. More...

It’s always reassuring when a chef eats what she cooks or an auto worker drives the brand he builds. So when Sprint uses its own technology, you can be sure we believe in it.

For instance, we recently announced how we’re using a 4G mobile application that enables our commercial property inspectors to accomplish their tasks in half the time. A company our size has a lot of properties, as you can imagine. More than 750 facilities, as a matter of fact, and each one has to be inspected annually.More...