The Seamless Enterprise

In October ’09, Sprint announced that its Emerging Solutions Unit would be focused on accelerating the delivery of M2M and mobile computing solutions. Now four months later, Paget Alves, President, Sprint Business Markets Group, shares his thoughts with us about the company’s M2M strategy and market opportunity, including industry examples. This will help you understand why there’s growing interest in this technology, and Sprint’s unique role. (more…)

For an enterprise to utilize 3G or 4G – or for that matter, embracing wireless access as a strategy – is something that many companies are giving serious thought to, especially now that 4G is steadily spreading across the country, market by market.
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This is the second Q&A of an ongoing discussion with Paget Alves, President of the Business Markets Group for Sprint Nextel. In this session, Alves discusses 4G technology and what it means for the enterprise. (more…)

Working for a leader in the adoption of Unified Communications (UC) technology, I often find myself on the bleeding edge as a UC user. Recently, I noticed my London-based boss and fellow blogger Shaun Ledgerwood started showing his UC presence as “Available” 24 hours a day. Normally, this level of presence would only be reported by someone actively working on their laptop. I knew Shaun worked too many hours already (with staff in almost every time zone in the world), but I had a hard time believing he had found a way to eliminate the human need for sleep. (more…)

Q&A with Sprint’s Dan Jacobson

At the recent Interop conference in Las Vegas, Sprint demonstrated its Mobile Integration products, garnering a lot of attention. We caught up with Dan Jacobson, senior portfolio manager of Sprint’s Converged Voice Services, right after the show and reviewed some of the key issues with him, starting with a definition.

1.  What is Sprint Mobile Integration? It’s our Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) solution which allows you to extend an enterprise’s communication system to your mobile phones, (more…)