Sprint announced the expansion of its global IP network to Taiwan. The company has secured a telecommunications business license in Taiwan and begun offering network-based and CPE-based VPNs, IP VPNs, Frame Relay, ATM, Private Lines, Security and Managed Network Services. Sprint also provides SprintLink Frame Relay, Packet Private Line and Virtual LAN services based on L2TPv3 technology. Sprint’s regional headquarters is in Hong Kong. It also has a presence in Tokyo, Seoul, mainland China, Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland.
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- In January 2003, Sprint introduced three new services based on Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol Version 3 (L2TPv3): SprintLink Frame Relay, SprintLink Packet Private Line and SprintLink Virtual LAN Services. L2TPv3 supports IP encapsulation of numerous Layer 2 protocols and provides authenticated tunneling to allow Layer 2 traffic to securely traverse a native IP core. Sprint has implemented L2TPv3 across its entire IP network without having to re-engineer the network or change its architecture. The capability is supported in Cisco IOS. In the new Frame Relay service the packets ride over the SprintLink native IP core, versus a statically switched ATM network.