[November 25, 2002]

Far Out! Sprint Managed Network Services Go Beyond WAN, To LAN Servers And Applications

Sprint announced an enhanced portfolio of managed network services with a range of options designed to meet the diverse needs of customers looking for network operations expertise. Sprint has enhanced its standard managed network solutions to offer standardized and custom managed networking services.

Sprint Managed Network ServicesSM go beyond monitoring and management of WAN and internetworking hardware to include LAN device monitoring and management and LAN server and application monitoring. Sprint Managed Network Services portfolio extends to monitoring any transport provider for frame relay, ATM, IP or private line.

Sprint offers customized managed network solutions for data, voice, WAN, LAN server, application infrastructures and advanced technology solutions including VPNs, security and convergence. By partnering with customers to identify the best solutions from among a set of standardized elements, Sprint can deliver flexible and unique offerings with the implementation speed customers require.

Custom managed network solutions also provide a team dedicated to overseeing implementation by coordinating provisioning and installation at all sites. This implementation project plan enables Sprint to provide customers historical data demonstrating a consistent record for on-time performance.

"Sprint is raising the bar among carrier providers by moving beyond the WAN to provide standard and custom solutions for customers' entire networks," said Tim Donahue, vice president, marketing, Sprint. "This offers customers a single point of contact for a fully managed solution. With Sprint, customers gain a networking partner that is financially stable, has 100 years of communications experience and recognized performance reliability."

The demand for managed services has grown at Sprint as customers seek ways to control costs and predict IT budget without sacrificing network performance or capabilities, with the number of devices Sprint manages growing 52 percent over the past eight months. In addition to the day-to-day tasks associated with maintaining mission-critical applications, Sprint can relieve customers of the responsibility to keep pace with rapidly changing and increasingly complex technologies necessary to do so. Using a tool that analyzes a customer's unique needs and current network costs, Sprint provides a realistic accounting of network management costs to demonstrate the full value of managed services and to determine a customer's best options.

Sprint Managed Network Services offer a single, integrated operations center and Web portal interface for all devices managed. These services are available in more than 100 countries and are backed by service level agreements.

In addition to managed router services for Sprint Frame RelaySM, Sprint Dedicated Internet AccessSM, Sprint ATM Service, Sprint Clearline� Private Line Service and Sprint IP Intelligent Frame RelaySM transport; Sprint Managed Network Services also includes managed transport for frame relay and ATM, managed IP VPN and managed voice for IP and frame relay. The complete suite of Sprint managed services includes managed CSU/DSU, managed hosting services and security services.

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