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Explore the global business of connectivity with TeleGeography’s Greg Bryan.
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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 gets 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.
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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 podcast. The pair chatted about 5G as a local access game-changer, got into some use cases, and looked to the future of wireless in the WAN.
The WAN Manager Podcast is now TeleGeography Explains the Internet. Hosted by Greg Bryan.
- Podcast HQ: https://www2.telegeography.com/telegeography-explains-the-internet-podcast
- TeleGeography Blog: https://blog.telegeography.com/
- Our Research: https://www2.telegeography.com/en/our-research
Tuesday Jun 14, 2022
Tuesday Jun 14, 2022
While NaaS and the middle mile are fairly new concepts, they're not new to the 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.
The WAN Manager Podcast is now TeleGeography Explains the Internet. Hosted by Greg Bryan.
- Podcast HQ: https://www2.telegeography.com/telegeography-explains-the-internet-podcast
- TeleGeography Blog: https://blog.telegeography.com/
- Our Research: https://www2.telegeography.com/en/our-research
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.
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).
The WAN Manager Podcast is now TeleGeography Explains the Internet. Hosted by Greg Bryan.
- Podcast HQ: https://www2.telegeography.com/telegeography-explains-the-internet-podcast
- TeleGeography Blog: https://blog.telegeography.com/
- Our Research: https://www2.telegeography.com/en/our-research
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 podcast.
The WAN Manager Podcast is now TeleGeography Explains the Internet. Hosted by Greg Bryan.
- Podcast HQ: https://www2.telegeography.com/telegeography-explains-the-internet-podcast
- TeleGeography Blog: https://blog.telegeography.com/
- Our Research: https://www2.telegeography.com/en/our-research
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 episode 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 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.
The WAN Manager Podcast is now TeleGeography Explains the Internet. Hosted by Greg Bryan.
- Podcast HQ: https://www2.telegeography.com/telegeography-explains-the-internet-podcast
- TeleGeography Blog: https://blog.telegeography.com/
- Our Research: https://www2.telegeography.com/en/our-research
Tuesday Apr 05, 2022
Tuesday Apr 05, 2022
Although WAN managers have always had to be aware of internet performance and outages, this is increasingly crucial in the internet-first WAN era.
To explore how 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 show. 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.
The pair had much to talk about, 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 WAN Manager Podcast is now TeleGeography Explains the Internet. Hosted by Greg Bryan.
- Podcast HQ: https://www2.telegeography.com/telegeography-explains-the-internet-podcast
- TeleGeography Blog: https://blog.telegeography.com/
- Our Research: https://www2.telegeography.com/en/our-research
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.
The WAN Manager Podcast is now TeleGeography Explains the Internet. Hosted by Greg Bryan.
- Podcast HQ: https://www2.telegeography.com/telegeography-explains-the-internet-podcast
- TeleGeography Blog: https://blog.telegeography.com/
- Our Research: https://www2.telegeography.com/en/our-research