Sprint Business: Products and Services: IP Services: IP VPN Services: Benefits

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Virtual private networking = tangible business benefits

With Sprint IP VPN solutions, it's not what you're connecting, but whom. Open the doors to secure, reliable wide-area connectivity, and you'll open your business to process-enabling changes that could have a very real impact on your bottom line.

Sprint IP VPN solutions can help you:

Boost financial performance — Our solution enables you to outsource the management of transport, equipment, and security to Sprint, helping you avoid the expense and time associated with self-management.
Increase employee productivity — With worldwide access to information and people within and outside your organization, you give your employees a set of powerful tools for improving their productivity on a daily basis.
Improve customer relations — With Sprint IP VPN Solutions, it's not only easier to stay in touch with your customers, but you are also open to new ways of doing business. You can provide customers simple access to pricing, points of contact, ordering, and bill tracking .
Expand distribution of products and services — Your IP VPN extends your marketing presence and communications reach to customers, partners, distributors, and suppliers. So now you can get your communications, products, and services to more people — faster than ever before.
Streamline business processes — We help build a communications infrastructure that lets you do more for your business, from improving your ability to collaborate on budgets and managing your inventory, to speeding products to market, and so much more.

Technical Benefits

Technical Benefits of Sprint's VPN
Flexible	Allows customers to securely access their corporate networks using a variety of access options including Dedicated IP, Frame Relay, ATM, DSL, and wireless.
Secure	Provides high levels of security through multiple levels of authentication and encryption.
Global Reach	Provides access to corporate data or the Internet in over 150 countries using Sprint-provided Dial Access, or virtually everywhere, since Sprint supports non-Sprint Dial Access.
High Performance/QoS/CoS	Leverages Sprint's award winning IP backbone whose congestion-free design supports industry leading performance SLA's, and multiple classes of service.
Network Integration	Utilizes a single dedicated connection to support multiple data applications. Utilizes one connection to provide intranet, extranet and Internet access.
Strong Authentication and Encryption	Offers strong encryption, ensuring that information remains a secret to non-intended users. Encryption is achieved through use of the IPSec protocol. Offers strong authentication to users, ensuring that the person with whom they share a secret is the person they claim to be. Allows users to be confident that the message they received was the same message that was sent, avoiding manipulation while in transit.
Optimal Network Performance	Utilize comprehensive SLAs that communicate consistent network quality. Leverage a Tier 1 Internet network with world's fastest OC-192 backbone.
Affordable Management	Outsource its management of VPN devices, authentication services, routers, and firewalls to Sprint's fully redundant 24x7 operations centers. Leverage Sprint's trained Operations personnel to scale customer IP VPNs.