The WAN Manager Podcast 004: Benchmarkers Anonymous

Greg asks an analyst about all things benchmarking. TeleGeography Senior Analyst and Data Science Manager Mike Bisaha steps in to explain best practices in measuring your wide area network against your goals.

So who benchmarks? How does this make life easier for a WAN manager? What has benchmarking taught us about networks? And how have the goals of WAN managers shifted over the last five to ten years?

From This Episode 

• On TEMs: You Can't Benchmark Your Network if You Don't Understand What You're Buying
• Schrodinger's MPLS and Why Predicting the Future is Hard
• Five Years of SD-WAN Migration Stories, Five Takeaways
• WAN Pricing Mythbusters
• Wargaming Your WAN
• Get the WAN Manager Newsletter
• About the WAN Cost Benchmark
• About the WAN Manager Survey
• Take the WAN Manager Survey (And then take this related, even shorter COVID-19 impact survey)
• About Our Sponsor: All About Benchmarking