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TeleGeography Explains the Internet
Explore the global business of connectivity with TeleGeography’s Greg Bryan.
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- TeleGeography Explains the Internet
419: Confessions of a Telecom Investor
Meet Aaron Chan, Founder and Managing Partner at Recurve Capital. As an investor in the “technology media and telecom” space—or “TMT” as they say in finance…
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418: Behind the Seas—Making Our Famous Submarine Cable Map
There's a good chance that you first heard about TeleGeography through one of our maps. Our own Research Analyst Lane Burdette was introduced to TeleGeography…
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417: Preparing the Next Generation of Infrastructure Professionals
Rohan Singh knew his future was in networking and communication when he saw his first network diagram at around 12 years old. That's probably why he feels like…
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416: The Death of Voice Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
We brought Senior Research Manager Paul Brodsky on to discuss our most recent voice report, but we couldn’t help getting into much more. We talk about the…
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415: Unpacking Telecom Predictions of the Past
It's one thing to make predictions, but it's another to assess how those predictions turned out. One month into 2023, Mattias Fridström, Chief Evangelist at…
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414: SASE and Secure
This week we welcome Jeremiah Ginn, Software Defined Cybersecurity Evangelist at AT&T and author of Diving into SASE. In this episode, you'll learn how to…
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413: A Brief History of Networking as a Service
This week's guest on TeleGeography Explains the Internet has a deep history in networking. Khalid Raza was involved in some of the earliest large-scale MPLS…
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Bonus Episode: The WAN in 2022
Host and Senior Manager of Enterprise Research Greg Bryan broke out the data for this bonus New Year's episode. Fans of our annual WAN Manager Survey will…
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411: 2022 in Review (Part 2)
We're looking back at all things telecom in 2022. And we're doing it the best way we know how: rounding up our analysts and inviting them to discuss…
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410: 2022 in Review (Part 1)
Greg Bryan kicks off the first of a two-part telecom year in review, welcoming experts Patrick Christian, Rob Schult, and Jon Hjembo to highlight the major…
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409: The Digital Divide Episode
James “Jim” Capuano has over 30 years of experience in the telecommunications industry and is the CEO of Horizon, a more than 125-year-old service provider. We…
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408: Orchestrating the Service Lifecycle
MEF CTO Pascal Menezes is back on the pod to discuss what MEF has been up to. Our first topic: Lifecycle Service Orchestration. What is it, how has it…
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407: Embracing Carrier Service Automation
This week, with the help of Jeremy Villalobos, COO of Orchest (formerly known as GoldConnect) we tackle automation from a carrier perspective. What is it? How…
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406: Unraveling the Fabric Providers of Reality
This week, we're talking about NaaS. We've covered NaaS in various contexts on this show, but this episode focuses on fabric providers and where they're…
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405: Unpacking Network Observability
If you want to review the state of the corporate WAN—in light of digital transformation, the cloud, SD-WAN adoption, and MPLS utilization—there's no one better…
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404: What Role Do Satellites Play in Global Communication?
Let's talk satellites! We have the perfect person to help us out. We're thrilled to welcome Dr. Peter Wood, TeleGeography analyst and resident satellite guy…
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403: Mobile as Infrastructure in Africa
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…
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402: Data Centers and the Opportunity at the Edge
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…
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401: Simply Illuminating
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…
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Introducing TeleGeography Explains the Internet
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…
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WAN Manager Podcast 316: What’s Wireless Got to Do With It?
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…
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WAN Manager Podcast 315: How Enterprises Are Implementing NaaS (And Leaving MPLS)
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…
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WAN Manager Podcast 314: Untying the Gordian Knot, Unlocking Your Future Network
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…
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WAN Manager Podcast 313: Very NaaS!
Our readers likely know about NaaS: cloud-based network architecture that allows a WAN manager to stitch together different enterprise network components in a…
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WAN Manager Podcast 312: SASE Isn’t Revolutionary. It’s Evolutionary.
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…
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WAN Manager Podcast 311: Running a Network for a Healthcare Company. During a Pandemic.
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…
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WAN Manager Podcast 310: How Global Events Impact the Internet
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…
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WAN Manager Podcast 309: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Middle Mile?
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…
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WAN Manager Podcast 308: Data Centers and Digital Transformation
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…
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WAN Manager Podcast 307: The WAN Managers Have Spoken (For Now)
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…
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WAN Manager Podcast 306: Integrating Wireless into the WAN
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…
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WAN Manager Podcast 305: Upskilling Network Architects for the Automated Network
Network automation pops up often on the pod. But, you know what's under-discussed? The HR aspect of upskilling IT workers and/or acquiring the right talent to…
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WAN Manager Podcast 304: The Multicloud-Verse of Madness
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…
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WAN Manager Podcast 303: 2021 in Review | Part 2
If you caught last week's special episode of the pod, you must be waiting on the edge of your seat for the second installment. To recap, Greg Bryan and…
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WAN Manager Podcast 302: 2021 in Review | Part 1
In this podcast holiday special, we're shaking the snow globe that is the 2021 WANscape. Greg welcomes back TeleGeography Analyst Elizabeth Thorne to present…
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WAN Manager Podcast 301: Wholesale Pricing and the WAN
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…
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WAN Manager Podcast 220: Would an SD-WAN by Any Other Name Smell as Sweet?
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…
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WAN Manager Podcast 219: NaaS, Cloud, and the Future of 5G
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…
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WAN Manager Podcast 218: The Very Definition of SD-WAN
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…
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WAN Manager Podcast 217: BorgWarner's Big SD-WAN Adventure
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…
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WAN Manager Podcast 216: To the Edge and Back
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…
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WAN Manager Podcast 215: Managing Multinational Network Modifications
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…
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WAN Manager Podcast 214: Citing Our Sources
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…
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WAN Manager Podcast 213: Nailing Down Network-as-a-Service
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…