Convergence is happening and IP is quickly becoming the default network protocol. Stratecast's recent market research on Frame Relay and ATM confirms that these traditional WAN technologies are declining at accelerating rates. MPLS, with its proven ability to support multiple and diverse simultaneous application flows, separate and secure subscriber traffic, scale from narrowband to gigabit levels, and support partially to fully meshed network topologies, has become the WAN technology of choice. At the center of this transformation to convergence is the Communication Service Provider. Effective convergence providers, as described in this paper, have designed their convergence solutions to meet the business objectives of their customers. Sprint is such a convergence provider.