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Managed Network Services: Overview

If your company is like many enterprises these days, your network is your business. If any part fails, it can impact your entire organization, including customers and suppliers. With Sprint Managed Network Services you have a trusted provider to help keep your voice and data networks optimized. So, you're no longer distracted from doing what you do best – building your business.

Sprint Managed Network Services can provide the tools to:

Give you access to network professionals at Sprint so you can tap into a "virtual team" of experts
Minimize the need to deploy or expand your own network platform
Proactively monitor the business network devices that help run your business for improved network reliability
Enable you to access performance reports on the web reports when you need them

You take care of business. We can take care of your network.

Outsourcing network management offers companies a cost-effective way to meet the challenges of today's business fast paced environment, to use resources more efficiently, and reduce risks of service interruptions. Because the carrier takes over certain aspects of the customer's network, the customer can realize substantial savings in equipment costs and administrative overhead, and through bundled transport.

Managed network services can allow you to side step the learning curve usually associated with new technologies, network design, implementation, and maintenance. That can mean no extended training, no extended resource commitments, no head scratching – just the freedom and access you need to take care of business.

The Sprint Managed Network Services advantage

Sprint goes beyond traditional managed WAN service offerings by adding in your entire network, including LAN devices such as LAN switches, hubs, and even servers. Sprint MNS is also:

An integrated network service, so you can bring Sprint in on virtually any phase of data network design and implementation or rely on Sprint for day-to-day management and maintenance.
Transport neutral, so we can work with set-ups of virtually all types including frame relay, ATM, dedicated IP, private line, and IP VPN.
Transport provider neutral, so we can manage your infrastructure over other provider's transport.

With Sprint MNS, Sprint can become an extension of your current IT staff while you remain in control by accessing Sprint's advanced monitoring features and web-based performance reports.

The key components of Sprint MNS are:

Add to that Sprint's industry leading Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and customer support and it's clear that we at Sprint stand behind our world-class network team of professionals.

Choose from pre-packaged and custom solutions

No matter what size your business, or its unique networking needs, managing data network connections and the equipment associated with them should not take time away from your other business priorities. That's why Sprint offers a range of services, and bundled services to choose from, including: