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Sunday Jan 01, 2023
Sunday Jan 01, 2023
You thought we were going to do a major end-of-year review of telecom trends and leave out all things WAN? No, no. Not on our watch.
Host and Senior Manager of Enterprise Research Greg Bryan broke out the data for this bonus New Years episode of TeleGeography Explains the Internet.
Fans of our annual WAN Manager Survey will enjoy getting a peek at our 2022 results. We've also got intel on NaaS, SASE, MPLS, and all the other acronyms that mattered to the WAN world in 2022.
Happy 2023, listeners. We're looking forward to exploring the global business of connectivity with you in the year ahead. Cheers to that.
From This Episode:
- Episode 406 | Unraveling the Fabric Providers of Reality
- Episode 405 | Unpacking Network Observability
- Episode 402 | Data Centers and the Opportunity at the Edge
- Episode 315 | How Enterprises Are Implementing NaaS (And Leaving MPLS)
- Episode 312 | SASE Isn't Revolutionary. It's Evolutionary.
- Key Findings From Our Latest WAN Market Size Report
- Learn more about the WAN Manager Survey
- Explore the WAN Forum
Tuesday Dec 27, 2022
Tuesday Dec 27, 2022
We're looking back at all things telecom in 2022. And we're doing it the best way we know how: rounding up our analysts and inviting them to discuss major findings in their areas of research on TeleGeography Explains the Internet.
If you want to dive in from the very beginning, you can listen to part one over here. And if you're ready for more, keep scrolling.
Part two takes us on a journey through the last 12 months of submarine cable news, SD-WAN, security, and major world events that intersected with telecom infrastructure.
We we thrilled to have TeleGeography's own Alan Mauldin, Brianna Boudreau, and Tim Stronge in the hot seat.
Not only did they bring data on the year that was, but they brought a wealth of insight on what we might expect to see across the industry in 2023. The perfect way to toast the New Year, if we do say so.
From This Episode:
- Episode 404 | What Role Do Satellites Play in Global Communication?
- Episode 312 | SASE Isn't Revolutionary. It's Evolutionary.
- Episode 310 | How Global Events Impact the Internet
- Episode 212 | Submarine Cables: It's Not Bitcoin
- Gloomy Economic Indicators… Scary Future for the Subsea Cable Industry?
- What to Know About Fiber’s Role in Ukraine’s Information War
- Zeroing in on the Trans-Atlantic Submarine Corridor
- Explore our Submarine Cable Map
- Download the 2022 SD-WAN Guide
- Read the Hypothetical Network Blog Series
Tuesday Dec 20, 2022
Tuesday Dec 20, 2022
Greg Bryan kicks off the first of a two-part telecom year in review, welcoming experts Patrick Christian, Rob Schult, and Jon Hjembo to highlight the major trends they saw in their principal research areas.
Part one takes us through the year in wholesale internet, cloud services, transport pricing, data centers, and lots more.
We talk inflation, we talk energy, we talk geography. And we're only just getting started.
From This Episode:
- Episode 301 | Wholesale Pricing and the WAN
- Episode 205 | Putting The Data Center Geography in TeleGeography
- Episode 308 | Data Centers and Digital Transformation
- Explore the Hypothetical Network Blog Series
- Price Erosion Remains the Universal Norm
- A 2022 Update on African Network Geography
- A 2022 Update on Interconnection Geography
- The Data Center Sector: An Uncertain Juncture
- Content Providers Binge on Global Bandwidth
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
James “Jim” Capuano has logged over 30 years in the telecommunications industry. And he's the CEO of Horizon, a service provider with more than 125 years of telecommunications experience.
We recently asked Jim to share some of his knowledge on TeleGeography Explains the Internet. In this episode, we view middle mile problems and solutions from a provider perspective and discuss how the middle mile is developing in the current WAN environment.
Then we turn our focus to the digital divide. Why do we need to bridge it—and how?
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Tuesday Dec 06, 2022
Tuesday Dec 06, 2022
Last year, MEF CTO Pascal Menezes walked us through the work MEF is doing on standardizing the enterprise network.
Nearly a year and a half later, Pascal is back on the pod to discuss what MEF has been doing since then.
Our first topic: Lifecycle Service Orchestration. What is it, how has it progressed, and what does it do for the carrier community?
We also get into enterprise automation, operational APIs, new SASE and ZT standards, and more.
This episode of TeleGeography Explains the Internet ties in perfectly with last week's, where Orchest's Jeremy Villalobos—who I actually met at a MEF event—helped us tackle why automation is so important from a carrier perspective.
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Tuesday Nov 29, 2022
Tuesday Nov 29, 2022
This week, with the help of Jeremy Villalobos, COO of Orchest (formerly known as GoldConnect), TeleGeography Explains the Internet tackles automation from a carrier perspective.
What is it? How is it being used in telecom? And why is it crucial that carriers move toward automation?
Of course, we had to tie in the impact on the enterprise WAN, as well as the future of automation—including practical uses for blockchain telecom.
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Tuesday Nov 22, 2022
Tuesday Nov 22, 2022
This week, we're talking about NaaS.
We've covered NaaS in various contexts on TeleGeography Explains the Internet, but this episode focuses on fabric providers and where they're headed.
For that, we're so glad to have on our outspoken and knowledgeable friend Michael Wynston, Director of Network Security Architecture & Automation at Fiserv.
Michael has now been on TeleGeography's podcast not once, not twice, but three times—and it's safe to say that he really knows his stuff.
What are fabric providers doing and how do they fit into the context of the traditional WAN? Alongside your typical MPLS-Internet hybrid network? As a replacement for some of that WAN? Listen to our conversation to find out.
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Tuesday Nov 15, 2022
Tuesday Nov 15, 2022
If you want to review the state of the corporate WAN—in light of digital transformation, the cloud, SD-WAN adoption, and MPLS utilization—there's no one better to talk to than Phil Gervasi, Director of Technical Evangelism at Kentik.
Lucky for us, he was this week's guest on TeleGeography Explains the Internet.
We covered the state of lift-and-shift into the cloud, the perseverance of MPLS, real use cases of SD-WAN, and, of course, lots on how network changes have impacted the visualization of network performance and security. (And how that needs to evolve.)
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Tuesday Oct 18, 2022
Tuesday Oct 18, 2022
Let's do it. Let's talk satellites!
And we have the perfect person to help us out. We're thrilled to welcome Dr. Peter Wood—TeleGeography analyst and resident satellite guy—to the pod.
We discuss how—while wires still reign supreme—satellite is having a bit of a resurgence. And maybe even the potential to disrupt the wireline market? Listen to our conversation to find out.
It was also a great opportunity to get Alan Mauldin on the line to talk more about his latest blog post, which is all too relevant to our satellite chat.
From This Episode:
- Cutting off Europe? A Look at How the Continent Connects to the World
- How LEO Satellite Connectivity Might Change Enterprise Networks
- How Will Broadband Prices Fare Against a Satellite Boom?
- The International Satellite Broadband Battle Intensifies
- Will New Satellites End the Dominance of Submarine Cables?
Tuesday Oct 11, 2022
Tuesday Oct 11, 2022
Our guest today is Waheed Adam, Global Board Director of the Mobile Ecosystem Forum and Executive Chairperson at iTouch Messaging Service.
He was a fantastic guest who brought a wealth of knowledge—and some really excellent stories—about mobile adoption as infrastructure in Africa. Senior Research Manager Patrick Christian joined in to discuss mobile-first economies, the role of hyperscalers/data centers in Africa, and the future of African telecoms.
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