Sprint Remote Access Solutions

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Sprint understands the needs of today's growing and evolving companies. No longer are employees bound to a single office. They are becoming more mobile in order to be responsive to customer needs, interfacing with clients, vendors, and partners—in order to efficiently deliver outstanding customer satisfaction. Improved connectivity has generated a whole new breed of teleworkers who have proven that productivity doesn't require them to be in the office. And when it comes to setting up workers in branch offices, you want them to experience the same quality of connectivity as your headquarters staff at a reasonable cost. Depending on the type of employees you're trying to support, Sprint has solutions that fit their unique business needs.

Mobile Workers

When employees are on the go, keeping business moving and responsive can be difficult. Sprint can help you manage your communication needs, real time with a number of flexible options. Our innovative portfolio of wireless messaging services tailor made for the mobile worker includes:

• Wireless email/PIM—Data-enabled mobile devices and laptops can be used to read and send messages via the Sprint PCS wireless network, as well as, access personal information including calendar and address books available on the desktop.
• Mobile messaging services—Two-way short messaging can assist mobile employees, customers, and suppliers with near real-time communication of text messages and data applications.
• Sprint PCS wireless voice—Only Sprint offers the largest all-digital, all-PCS nationwide network with advanced multimedia services reaching more than 99 percent of the largest cities and all major airports for clarity you can see and hear.
• Sprint PCS Ready Link(SM)—Based on two-way, walkie-talkie technology, it's a cost-effective way to quickly communicate with anyone within reach of the Sprint Nationwide PCS Network—whether in your building or nationwide.

You want your employees to be as productive as possible, regardless of where they are. When your enterprise applications like sales force automation, field force automation, and customer relationship management are readily accessible in the mobile environment, you gain a competitive edge on your competition. Utilizing Sprint PCS Connection Cards Sprint can help you extend access to corporate applications and databases the desktop to the laptop and other data-enabled mobile devices through:

• Sprint PCS Data Link(SM)—Brings your entire network on the road with secure wireless access via VPN or Frame Relay transport to the corporate intranet, the Internet, databases, email, and shared files as well as to corporate applications via a Sprint PCS Connection Card.
• Sprint Wi-Fi ZONES™—Airports, convention centers, and hotels are just some of the places where your mobile employees can get online and connect to the home office. Connect to Sprint Wi-Fi ZONES or wherever else Wi-Fi access is available.
• Sprint wireless local area networks (WLANs)—The same 802.11 technology used in Sprint Wi-Fi ZONES™ can be used to turn your building into a private enterprise hot spot. Sprint can package a total WLAN solution for your company, including design, equipment, installation, and ongoing technical support and maintenance.
• Optigo Enterprise Optimizer—A VPN friendly compression/optimization solution to give your remote workers LAN-like connectivity.

Teleworkers

Sprint knows there's more than one kind of teleworker. And for that reason, for each type, we've developed a package to fulfill their distinctive needs:

• At-home teleworkers—Perform most of their work at home. Benefit most from a broadband connection (like DSL), a desktop computer, and a PDA phone.
• Extended-hour workers—Take work home after hours or occasionally travel. Would best benefit from a dial-up or broadband connection along with a laptop outfitted with a Sprint PCS Connection Card™.
• Road warriors—Spend little time at the office. Would best benefit with access to Sprint Wi-Fi ZONES™, a dial-up or broadband connection, a laptop outfitted with a Sprint PCS Connection Card, and a PDA phone with wireless email capabilities.
• Field service—Similar to a road warrior but requires more rugged devices. Would best benefit from access to Sprint Wi-Fi ZONES™ and dial-up, a rugged laptop with a Sprint PCS Connection Card, and a Sprint PCS Ready Link walkie-talkie type phone.
• Executive teleworkers—Take work home after hours and require extensive need for mobility at home and on the road. Would best benefit with access to Sprint Wi-Fi ZONES and a dial-up or broadband connection, along with a laptop outfitted with a Sprint PCS Connection Card and wireless email via a PDA phone.

Connecting branch locations

Look to Sprint for cost-effective ways to provide the any-to-any connectivity that can make your remote office employees more effective in their jobs.

Sprint gives you choices such as:

• VPN type—Hardware and network based
• VPN Connection—Wireline: high-speed digital subscriber line (DSL), IP Dial; Wireless: PCS Data Link
• VPN Protocol: Internet protocol security (IP Sec), secure sockets layer (SSL), multi-protocol label switching (MPLS)
• Hybrid Networking
• Network Management

Sprint offers seamless connectivity between different technology platforms—IP, frame relay, asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), and private lines. That means you can easily implement a VPN solution at locations where it makes economic sense to do so and integrate those locations with other existing Sprint data network services. With a hybrid approach, you can preserve investments in existing frame relay and ATM networking equipment, minimize reconfigurations, and reduce access and administration costs. Sprint solutions have the scope and flexibility to meet your requirements. When your resources are stretched thin, let Sprint professional services help you design, develop, deploy, and support your comprehensive remote access strategy. Free your IT staff from the burden of managing disparate networks and multiple service providers.

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