Sprint MPLS VPN^SM

The network solution for today and tomorrow

Today, businesses are asking their networks to support an ever-growing list of requirements. Not only do they want to boost performance for mission-critical data, they also want to support real-time applications such as voice and video. The network must also provide secure global connectivity for all employees, facilities, and partners. Today’s businesses want it all. And they want it to reduce costs without sacrificing security.

Case Study

• Sprint provides new network infrastructure for an international packaging company.
  

Customer Benefits

• Ensures reliable access, backed by the most aggressive Service Level Agreements in the industry
  
• Simplifies network design
  
• Brings you closer to your clients by fully-integrating systems across multiple locations
  
• Enables access to intranets, extranets, and the Internet via 1 connection
  
• Locks down your access with 24x7 network, security, and CPE management options
  
• Extends high-performance, dependable communications enterprise-wide, helping increase communication, cut costs, and accelerate speed to market
  
• Allows you to outsource transport, equipment, and security management
  
• Provides collocation options that help maximise performance while minimizing facility and access costs
  

Technical Information

• Dedicated and remote dial access and end-to-end integrated support available in 470 cities in 70 countries world-wide
  
• Access speeds available from 56 Kbps to 2 Mbps, depending on location
  
• Web-based Network Manager monitoring tool
  
• Extended Services: IP VPN device maintenance, design, and implementation services available
  
• Multiple IPVPN Platforms Available: Cisco, Nortel
  
• Wide Range of Connectivity Options:
  

• Internet access speeds up to OC48/OC192
  
• Allowable tunnelling protocols IPSec, L2TP, L2F, PPTP, and GRE
  
• Flexible policy-based management system via LDAP-compliant VPN devices
  
• Authentication services including but not limited to RADIUS, Security Tokens, PAP, CHAP, and Certificates via PKI
  
• DES or 3DES encryption
  
• Up to 20,000 simultaneous tunnels on specific devices
  

• IP VPN Management and Maintenance:
  

• Choice of Sprint-managed or customer-managed
  
• 24-hour network management and support
  
• Proactive monitoring and reporting
  
• Available on non-Sprint dedicated IP transport
  
• CPE vendor maintenance