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Explore the global business of connectivity with TeleGeography’s Greg Bryan.
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Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
While a fifteen-year friendship with Greg is not a prerequisite for guests on the pod, it sure makes for good conversation.
To kick off Season 3 of the pod, Greg calls on longtime colleague Rob Schult, who also happens to be a Research Director here at TeleGeography, to draw a connection between the wholesale and enterprise retail markets.
What should IT infrastructure and sourcing teams pay attention to in the wholesale market? You’ll also hear about IP transit and why the vast majority of enterprises are not buying it (even though the internet is increasingly a primary—or at least secondary—method of site connectivity in the enterprise 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
Wednesday Aug 04, 2021
Wednesday Aug 04, 2021
As we dig into technical standards and definitions, MEF has come up several times on this show. It was only a matter of time before we put them in the hot seat.
In our latest conversation, Greg welcomes MEF CTO Pascal Menezes to walk us through the work the MEF is doing on standardizing the enterprise network.
Why is SD-WAN certification a good idea? How is the WAN developing? What is MEF doing in the Zero Trust Security and SASE space? Listen in to find out.
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
Monday Jul 12, 2021
Monday Jul 12, 2021
Listeners know that we've covered middle mile and NaaS on this show. And we've touched on the various companies that are emerging around these issues. Today we're getting extra perspective from one of those companies.
Greg welcomes Dave Ward, CEO of PacketFabric, to talk through the bigger picture of how these services are emerging in the enterprise network market.
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 Jul 06, 2021
Tuesday Jul 06, 2021
When TeleGeography started tracking the SD-WAN market in 2017, we found dozens of vendors with a service they were calling "SD-WAN."
But are all of these services created equal? What does it take for your solution to qualify as SD-WAN?
Today we pull back and discuss SD-WAN definitions and certification. Greg aims to better understand the exact definition of SD-WAN and how related certification can benefit both end-users and managed service providers. And for that, we're so glad to welcome a true expert on this topic: Marc Cohn, Principal Technology Strategist at Spirent.
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
Monday Jun 28, 2021
Monday Jun 28, 2021
Are you like the (approximately) half of our survey respondents who have not yet adopted SD-WAN? Or perhaps you're in the midst of deployment and want to know what to look out for. Or maybe you're working out whether or not to keep MPLS?
Today we'll share some perspective on these questions with another case study, this time with Mark Williams, Sr. Manager of Global Networks at BorgWarner.
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
Monday Jun 21, 2021
Monday Jun 21, 2021
Today we're living on the edge!
Whether we're talking security and SASE, NaaS, or cloud computing—or many other topics, honestly—edge networks and edge computing are likely to make it into the conversation.
Greg welcomes two experts from Catchpoint to help us dig in: CEO Medhi Daoudi and VP of Operations Tony Ferrelli. Medhi's recent blog post Monitoring at the Edge of the Third Act of the Internet sets the tone for a great conversation, spanning enterprise apps, network monitoring, and the geography of the internet.
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
Monday Jun 14, 2021
Monday Jun 14, 2021
It's another case study episode of the pod. Today, we welcome Ian Calderbank, Enterprise Network Architect at PageGroup, to the hot seat.
In his conversation with Greg, Ian details the network transformation process for a multinational staffing agency. An environment packed with knowledge workers and downtown office space sounds like an enviable position to be in as a WAN manager, right? But there's no shortage of lessons learned as the pair gets into pre-SD-WAN solutions, organizing major network transitions, overlay/underlay troubleshooting, and security strategy.
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
Monday Jun 07, 2021
Monday Jun 07, 2021
In this episode, we dig into sourcing. Our listeners know that we often discuss the migration of large enterprises away from one or two global suppliers for a mostly MPLS network to a novel mix of transport types and suppliers. This is especially true due to changing trends in cloud migration, SD-WAN, and security.
May it be local internet breakouts from a variety of ISPs alongside MPLS or sourcing a backbone between data center nodes, many enterprises have taken on a “telco-like” role in buying connectivity directly.
For more on the state of sourcing, Greg welcomes Steve Rome, Chief Revenue Officer and co-founder of Advantage. The pair wastes no time cutting through the complexity of sourcing the modern 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 01, 2021
Tuesday Jun 01, 2021
Our data shows that a majority of enterprises have more than one IaaS provider. For SaaS, that number can be dozens, hundreds, even more. And most have moved the majority of their data centers off corporate premises to some kind of shared facility.
This means most companies are dealing with multi-cloud connectivity in some shape or form; WAN managers of course have to handle that from a performance and cost perspective.
Today we hear from a data center insider, diving into network-as-a-service models, multi-cloud connectivity, data center interconnectivity, and the intersection of these topics.
We're joined by Christian Koch, Senior Director of Interconnection at DataBank.
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
Monday May 17, 2021
Monday May 17, 2021
We often say we'll " deep-dive" into an issue at the beginning of our pods. Today, we almost mean that literally, as Greg welcomes TeleGeography Research Director Alan Mauldin to discuss submarine cables.
Whether you're joining us from the vendor or enterprise side, you might want to know why submarine cables—usually considered a wholesale telecom issue—are relevant to the corporate 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