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Explore the global business of connectivity with TeleGeography’s Greg Bryan.
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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.
From this Episode:
Tuesday Oct 04, 2022
Tuesday Oct 04, 2022
When we reached out to today's podcast guest—Jim Poole, Vice President of Business Development at Equinix—about being on the show, we asked if he'd be willing to dig into NaaS or edge data centers.
But as we got to talking before our interview, we realized that these two topics are deeply interrelated. And Jim has lots of insight to share about where the market is headed.
We waded through how Equinix is approaching NaaS from a solutions standpoint and what it means to truly be an edge data center.
Join us for a conversation about NaaS, Equinix’s role in that market as a data center provider, how traditional telcos are positioned to provide NaaS, how Equinix is developing edge services in conjunction with emerging networking solutions, and much more.
Tuesday Sep 27, 2022
Tuesday Sep 27, 2022
To kick off Season 4, we're going deep into the supply chain as Greg welcomes Dr. Michael Lebby, CEO of Lightwave Logic.
The pair get into making a better mousetrap for the light-switching world. Listen up if you're into the technology that makes optical transport possible—and specifically how this technology fits into the telecom transport ecosystem.
Fasten your seatbelts. This episode has new tech talk, optical transport pricing intel, a big Shannon Limit shout-out, and lots more.
Friday Sep 23, 2022
Friday Sep 23, 2022
Get ready. There's a new season of the WAN Manager Podcast coming to your feeds next week.
This season will be our biggest yet. It’s so big, we couldn’t contain our conversations to just the WAN. That’s why the WAN Manager Podcast is now: TeleGeography Explains the Internet.
New name. More content. Same great show. See you next week.
Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
Anyone in the WAN business—from the carrier or end-user side—knows that local access can present some of the biggest challenges in corporate networks.
There's a physical geography problem that's not easy to overcome. We're talking about pulling and maintaining wires to all corporate sites, which is especially challenging when customers need physical diversity and protection.
Wireless has long been a backup of last resort for many users, but 5G has presented the promise of relieving this pain point.
Let's talk about it. Greg welcomes Inseego Senior VP and GM of Enterprise Ritesh Mukherjee to the WAN Manager Podcast. The pair chat about 5G as a local access game-changer, get into some use cases, and look to the future of wireless in the WAN.
From This Episode
- Episode 306 | Integrating Wireless into the WAN
- Episode 219 | NaaS, the Cloud, and the Future of 5G
- Over 100 5G Network Launches in 2020
- Wireless Broadband in WAN
- WAN Managers Weigh Greatest Challenges of Remote Working
- Why Do Internet Service Providers Need to Pay for Local Access?
- WAN Pricing Mythbusters: Is Local Access 50% or More of the WAN?
- About our WAN Cost Benchmark
- About our WAN Geography Benchmark
- Explore the WAN Forum
Tuesday Jun 14, 2022
Tuesday Jun 14, 2022
While NaaS and the middle mile are fairly new concepts, they're not new to the WAN Manager Podcast.
In episodes past, we've highlighted the framework, concept, market players, and products available. Now we consider things from another perspective.
Ameet Naik, Director of Product Marketing at Cloudflare, takes center stage to help us tackle some real-world NaaS use cases.
You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll ponder the post-MPLS SD-WAN network and the future of the WAN business.
From This Episode
- Episode 313 | The Need for NaaS
- Episode 219 | NaaS, the Cloud, and the Future of 5G
- Episode 203 | Stuck in the Middle Mile With You
- What is Internet Middle Mile?
- SD-WAN's Shift to Security
- TeleGeography's Cloud Infrastructure Map
- About our WAN Cost Benchmark
- About our WAN Geography Benchmark
- Explore the WAN Forum
Tuesday Jun 07, 2022
Tuesday Jun 07, 2022
The TeleGeography team began benchmarking networks almost a decade ago. (Time flies when you're having fun!)
Back then, the big use case was making sure that carrier and customer were on the same page about how much MPLS and access prices had fallen over the life of a contract—and how far prices would probably fall in the next several years.
We still do some benchmarks that look like this. But, more often than not, benchmarking is much more complicated these days.
Enterprises often have some idea of the network they need to accommodate changes in IT—but the path to get from here to there, and the costs of the journey—are far from clear.
To help us bring some order to the chaos, we're glad to welcome back Ian Calderbank of Calderbank Consulting. Ian chats with Greg about legacy networks, related pain points, evolving business needs, and contours of the "target state" network that WAN teams should work toward.
From This Episode
- Episode 215 | Managing Multinetwork Network Modifications
- Episode 308 | Data Centers and Digital Transformation
- What SD-WAN Features Do WAN Professionals Actually Want?
- Prominence of DIA in the WAN
- Global DIA Prices and Trends
- DIA Is Hot on the Heels of MPLS
- About our WAN Cost Benchmark
- About our WAN Geography Benchmark
- Explore the WAN Forum
Tuesday May 03, 2022
Tuesday May 03, 2022
Our readers likely know about NaaS: cloud-based network architecture that allows a WAN manager to stitch together different enterprise network components in a self-service, automated way.
At the WAN Manager Podcast, we've been watching the ways in which NaaS has emerged as specific products/solutions from vendors, as well as how it integrates with existing WAN strategies from the enterprise side.
Of course, there's a lot to cut through in terms of how vendors present their services to the market—and what enterprises can actually adopt right now to solve specific problems.
It only seemed fitting that we welcome back Jason Gintert, CTO and Co-Founder of WAN Dynamics, to the pod to break it all down.
Come for the network-as-a-service talk, stay for Greg's proposed new pronunciation of "NaaS" and the pair's take on if the private WAN is disappearing (gasp).
From This Episode
- About Our Sponsor: The WAN Summit
- Considering Cloud Connectivity Providers
- Episode 219 | NaaS, the Cloud, and the Future of 5G
- Episode 211: I'm Just the Middle Mile Man
- Episode 202 | SFW: Safe for WANs
- What is Internet Middle Mile?
- Watch Our Panel Discussion on Middle Mile
- TeleGeography's Cloud Infrastructure Map
- About our WAN Cost Benchmark
- About our WAN Geography Benchmark
- Explore the WAN Forum
Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
Here's a hot take: the networking hype cycle has moved on from SD-WAN in favor of SASE and now SSE.
To help us navigate how these changes are impacting the modern infrastructure team—especially with respect to SD-WAN—Greg welcomes Nav Chander, Head of Service Provider SD-WAN/SASE Product Marketing at Aruba, to the WAN Manager Podcast.
From This Episode
- E-book: Learn how to secure the WAN with SASE
- Managed SASE services: Does one size fit all?
- The Home Office Isn't Going Away. What Does That Mean for WAN Managers?
- Here's How You Should Remember the 2021 WAN
- Episode 216: To The Edge and Back
- Episode 202: Safe for WANs
- About the WAN Manager Survey
- About the WAN Cost Benchmark
- Explore the WAN Forum