Sprint Extends MPLS VPN Benefits Globally

Global enterprise IT managers are challenged with the often competing objectives of enabling new applications and connecting geographically dispersed users and facilities, all while lowering costs and boosting performance.

With Sprint's MPLS VPN, customers can accommodate changing business needs to add locations or update the flow of communications between locations without the hassle of ordering, provisioning and managing complex Layer 2 circuits.

Sprint (www.sprint.com) is extending its standard MPLS VPN offering to over 100 countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America, providing a secure and highly scalable solution designed to support the convergence of voice, video and data onto one network-based IP VPN platform.

Multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) virtual private network (VPN) technology combines the flexible connectivity and scalability of IP-based services with the security, privacy and quality traditionally associated with Frame Relay and ATM services.

The Sprint MPLS VPN supports both intranet and extranet applications. Enterprises can easily migrate from legacy technologies to efficiently connect their global sites and benefit from the security of a private network and any-to-any connectivity.

Sprint has also extended network-based capabilities beyond the traditional VPN intranet service provided by carriers. Customers can select from a powerful suite of integrated, value-added services like remote access services (RAS), IPSec tunnel termination and secure Internet access protected by network-based firewalls.

Sprint supports multinational companies and over 95 percent of the Fortune 1000 with one of the world's leading communications networks, providing them with global voice, data and Internet services.

Sprint currently has over 1,100 points of presence across six continents and carries more than 25 percent of the world's Internet traffic over its Tier One backbone.