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Explore the global business of connectivity with TeleGeography’s Greg Bryan.
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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
Tuesday Apr 12, 2022
Tuesday Apr 12, 2022
Two years ago—when the world shut down—WAN managers had to scramble to accommodate massive changes. Offices transitioned to remote work and navigated brand new traffic patterns.
Our guest on this week's WAN Manager Podcast navigated the added challenge of running a network within the healthcare industry, where business needs were changing in real-time.
Carl Flaherty, Manager of Network Services at Main Line Health, shares his network story in our latest WAN Manager Pod.
Greg and Carl talk about pre-pandemic networking, as well as how Carl's team solved the many COVID-related problems thrown their way. This includes setting up pop-up COVID testing sites, preparing radiologists for remote work, and putting out infrastructure fires while social distancing.
From This Episode
- About Our Sponsor: The WAN Summit
- The Home Office Isn't Going Away. What Does That Mean for WAN Managers?
- Get the Slides: Adjusting to Your New Hybrid Workforce
- Five Network Managers, Five Network Management Stories
- Episode 215: Managing Multinational Network Modifications
- About the WAN Manager Survey
- About Our WAN Cost Benchmark
- Explore the WAN Forum
Tuesday Apr 05, 2022
Tuesday Apr 05, 2022
We've discussed the ways in which the WAN is moving away from private networks and MPLS in favor of reliance on the public internet. Not to mention the costs and benefits of that evolution.
Although it's certainly always been the case that WAN managers must stay on top of internet performance and outages, this is increasingly crucial in the internet-first WAN era in which we find ourselves.
To get into the ways in which global events, natural or human, impact the internet—and how to stay on top of those headlines—we welcome a leading expert on this topic to the WAN Manager Podcast.
Doug Madory, Director of Internet Analysis at Kentik, sits with Greg to get into recent world events that have had real, consequential impacts on the internet.
From the volcanic eruption and subsequent tsunami that knocked out internet access in Tonga, to Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine and the corresponding information war, the pair had much to talk about.
From This Episode
- What to Know About Fiber’s Role in Ukraine’s Information War
- Internet Provider to Ukrainian Military Hit With Major Cyberattack
- New blocks emerge in Russia: An OONI network measurement analysis
- Ukraine’s Telecom Market, Explained
- Ukrainian Telcos: Communicating Through the Conflict
- Sanctions Start to Hit Russia’s Tech Sector
- TeleGeography's Submarine Cable Map
- Episode 212: Submarine Cables: It's Not Bitcoin
- Episode 208: The Art of Zen and Network Monitoring
Tuesday Mar 22, 2022
Tuesday Mar 22, 2022
Coevolve CTO Ciaran Roche is back on the pod. And he's in the hot seat to discuss how middle mile solutions are selected to solve real-world enterprise WAN issues.
When Ciaran joined us last year, we spent lots of time talking about cloud adoption and SD-WAN. You might remember that we discussed how freeing up the transport layer from single-source carrier WANs had created a brand new challenge: how to manage the middle mile.
Almost a year on from that conversation, Greg and Ciaran delve into what we've seen from enterprises who are solving this middle mile problem. The pair get into the use cases for implementing a middle mile solution, related products, and the adoption cycle for middle mile services.
From This Episode
- What is Internet Middle Mile?
- Episode 211: I'm Just the Middle Mile Man
- Episode 203: Stuck in the Middle Mile With You
- Watch Our Panel Discussion on Middle Mile
- TeleGeography's Cloud Infrastructure Map
- How to Connect to the Cloud
- About the WAN Manager Survey
- About Our Internet Middle Mile research
- About Cloud and WAN Infrastructure
- Explore the WAN Forum
Tuesday Mar 08, 2022
Tuesday Mar 08, 2022
When it comes to the cloud and digital transformation of the enterprise, it's always useful to come back to the fact that physical geography matters to our digital world.
Moving the data center off-premises or shifting data and workloads to the cloud doesn’t dematerialize this fact. You still need wires that connect to servers that sit in a rack at a hyperscaler or neutral data center facility.
More than ever, enterprises need to understand the market landscape and pricing structure at what were once “colocation” facilities. (Which were once only interesting to service providers and ISPs.)
To help us navigate the world of data center operators and pricing, Greg welcomes TeleGeography's resident interconnection expert Jon Hjembo.
From This Episode
Tuesday Feb 22, 2022
Tuesday Feb 22, 2022
We've crunched the numbers from our survey of WAN managers in 2021 and our new analysis is ready and waiting.
What'd we find?
To start, the extended effects of COVID-related remote work have accelerated WAN trends like migration to the cloud, SD-WAN adoption, and incorporating alternative access technologies into the underlay.
Network managers at large multinational corporations are now faced with accommodating a remote-friendly, bring-your-own-device, work-from-anywhere environment. Many will likely be rethinking their network architecture in the coming years, moving closer to internet-first networks and further away from MPLS.
Greg welcomes TeleGeography Senior Analyst Elizabeth Thorne back to the pod to break it all down.
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