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Explore the global business of connectivity with TeleGeography’s Greg Bryan.
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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.
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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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Tuesday Feb 15, 2022
Tuesday Feb 15, 2022
One of the earliest and most persistent use cases for SD-WAN has been the ability to utilize alternative connectivity options like internet and fixed wireless. And our WAN Manager Survey data has shown us that, since 2018, MPLS has been losing ground to other wireline alternatives like DIA and broadband.
Over that same period, wireless grew as a percentage of sites in our study—but it still represents fewer than one in ten sites, on average.
That said, we might expect to see that increase significantly over the next few years, particularly as fixed wireless 5G plans emerge.
Founder and CEO of Blue Wireless Ivan Landen joins Greg to discuss how that transition might look.
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Tuesday Feb 08, 2022
Tuesday Feb 08, 2022
Network automation pops up often on the WAN Manager Podcast.
But—you know what's under-discussed? The HR aspect of upskilling IT workers and/or acquiring the right talent to make this transformation and manage it going forward.
To get into it, Greg welcomes Michael Martin, Senior Expert of Networking and Network Security at McKinsey & Co.
The pair covers the basics of network automation, getting engineers/network architects up to speed in this area, and attracting the right new talent for these network transformations.
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Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
We're going to talk about the cloud. More specifically, cloud outages and how to avoid them and mitigate their impacts.
There's no way we can dig into this topic without touching on multicloud strategies.
Even back in 2019—when we surveyed WAN managers about their organization’s cloud infrastructure—we found that three in four enterprises had already gone multicloud, with at least two IaaS providers. We also found that the majority of enterprises were in hybrid cloud situations, with some mix of public, private, and on-premises data centers.
And to help us get deeper into all things cloud, we're thrilled to have CEO of Go Cloud Careers Mike Gibbs on deck.
From This Episode
- About Go Cloud Careers
- What Problem is the Middle Mile Trying to Solve?
- Corporate Data Center Geography, Explained
- Trends in Cloud Infrastructure and Global Networks
- SFW: Safe for WANs
- About TeleGeography's Cloud and WAN Infrastructure Research
- About the WAN Manager Survey
- Discover the WAN Cost Benchmark
- Join the WAN Forum
Tuesday Dec 21, 2021
Tuesday Dec 21, 2021
If you caught last week's special episode of the WAN Manager Podcast, you must be waiting on the edge of your seat for the second installment.
To recap, Greg Bryan and Elizabeth Thorne are keeping up their tradition of decking the halls with an end-of-year WAN review. And since 2021 was such a big year, we couldn't fit everything into just one episode.
To make up for the cliffhanger, we've packed part two with enough data and lively conversation to knock your stockings off their mantel. We're talking 5G deployment trends, the rising popularity of multi-cloud, new backbone/transport services from your friendly neighborhood CSP, and more.
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Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
In this WAN Manager Podcast holiday special, we're shaking the snow globe that is the 2021 WANscape. Greg welcomes back TeleGeography Analyst Elizabeth Thorne to present another year in review.
To keep the conversation on track, Elizabeth made a list (and checked it twice), but we couldn't fit everything into one episode.
Part 1 covers SASE adoption, SD-WAN maturation, how remote work is changing the face of corporate networking, the evolving MPLS vs. DIA matchup, and more.
We'll be back next week with Part 2, covering 5G deployment trends, the rising popularity of multi-cloud, and the new backbone/transport services that CSPs are starting to provide.
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