Podcasts by TeleGeography Explains the Internet

510: Head in the Cloud, Toes at the Edge from 2023-11-21T08:00

Today we welcome Nokia's Paul Unbehagen to the pod.

Paul has a deep history in the networking world, so he approaches his role at Nokia—NE Americas CTO—from the perspective of a network e...

509: Why 4G Is Still Relevant for Enterprise Connectivity from 2023-11-07T08:00

This week on TeleGeography Explains the Internet, we welcome SmartCIC CEO Toby Forman to the show.

508: How Geography Influences Network Security from 2023-10-31T08:00

Today’s TeleGeography Explains the Internet guest comes to the security world with a deep background in cloud and networks.

Joe DePalo is Chief Platform Officer at Netskope, and the ideal...

507: How Do Targeted Ads Work? Is My Phone Listening In? from 2023-10-17T08:00

Today on TeleGeography Explains the Internet, we're asking the big questions about mobile advertising. Luckily, Ross Flynn of the Mobile Ecosystem Forum is with us to explain, which is exactly w...

506: Born in the (US)NUA: LIVE from Ohio! from 2023-10-10T08:00

In August we were pumped to join a meeting of the OH Network User Group at the fabulous BrewDog hotel and brewery in Columbus, Ohio. (If you're not familiar with the

We asked William to talk us through the history of enterprise cloud and highlight a few of the ...

504: How NaaS Relates to SDN and Automation from 2023-09-26T08:02

The newest member of the TeleGeography Explains the Internet club is telecom industry veteran  Listen

501: Are These WAN Sourcing Trends Real or Just Hype? from 2023-09-05T08:00

Season 5 of TeleGeography Explains the Internet is here, and we're kicking things off with Dennis Thankac...

425: Surveying the WANscape from 2023-04-25T08:00

This week, Season 4 of TeleG...

423: Staying a Step Ahead of Mobile Fraudsters from 2023-04-11T08:00

Our guest today is Dario Betti, CEO of the Mobile Ecosystem Forum. 

It's always nice to have industry association folks on the show. I've f...

422: AI Meets The Corporate Network from 2023-04-04T08:00

Today’s episode of TeleGeography Explains the Internet is about artificial intelligence. And ...

421: What Makes a WAN Truly Secure? from 2023-03-28T08:00

I've always known Aryaka Networks as service provider with a different approach to enterprise networks—they don’t neatly fit into categories like facilities-based carrier or managed service prov...

420: When Carriers Collaborate from 2023-03-21T08:00

Wanna look at some cool voice data?

The recent expansion of the i3forum's  Listen

419: Confessions of a Telecom Investor from 2023-03-14T08:00

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 circles—Aaron has something of an out...

418: Behind the Seas—Making Our Famous Submarine Cable Map from 2023-03-09T08:00

There's a good chance that you first heard about TeleGeography through one of our maps.

Our own Research Analyst Lane Burdette wa...

417: Preparing the Next Generation of Infrastructure Professionals from 2023-02-21T08:00

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 he's been involved in networking f...

416: The Death of Voice Has Been Greatly Exaggerated from 2023-02-07T08:00

Why has it taken us this long to welcome Senior Research Manager Paul Brodsky—an A+ podcast guest—to TeleGeography Explains the Internet?

We...

415: Unpacking Telecom Predictions of the Past from 2023-01-31T08:00

It's one thing to make predictions. It's another to go back and assess how those predictions shook out.

One month into 2023, Mattias Fridström, Chief Evangelist at Arelion, very kindly ag...

414: SASE and Secure from 2023-01-24T08:00

This week on TeleGeography Explains the Internet we welcome Jeremiah Ginn, Software Defined Cybersecurity Evangelist at AT&T and author of Diving into SASE.

In this episode you'll learn h...

413: A Brief History of Networking as a Service from 2023-01-17T08:00

This week's guest on TeleGeography Explains the Internet has a deep history in networking.

Khalid Raza was involved in some of the earliest ...

Bonus Episode: The WAN in 2022 from 2023-01-01T08:00

You thought we were going to do a major end-of-year review of telecom trends and leave out all things WAN? No, no. Not on our watch.

Host and Senior Manager of Enterprise Research Greg Br...

411: 2022 in Review (Part 2) from 2022-12-27T08:00

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 major findings in their areas of research on ...

410: 2022 in Review (Part 1) from 2022-12-20T08:00

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 trends they saw in their principal res...

409: The Digital Divide Episode from 2022-12-13T08:00

James “Jim” Capuano has logged over 30 years in the telecommunications industry. And he's the CEO of Horizon, a service provider with more than 125 years of telecommunications experience.

408: Orchestrating the Service Lifecycle from 2022-12-06T08:00

Last year, MEF CTO Pascal Menezes walked us through the work MEF is doing on standardizing the enterprise network.

Nearly a year and a half later, Pascal is back on the pod to discuss wha...

407: Embracing Carrier Service Automation from 2022-11-29T08:00

This week, with the help of Jeremy Villalobos, COO of Orchest (formerly known as GoldConnect), TeleGeography Explains the Internet tackles automati...

406: Unraveling the Fabric Providers of Reality from 2022-11-22T08:00

This week, we're talking about NaaS.

We've covered NaaS in various contexts on TeleGeography Explains the Internet, but this episode focuses...

405: Unpacking Network Observability from 2022-11-15T08:01

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 to talk to than Phil Gervasi, Dire...

404: What Role Do Satellites Play in Global Communication? from 2022-10-18T08:00

Let's do it. Let's talk satellites!

And we have the perfect person to help us out. We're thrilled to welcome Dr. Peter Wood—TeleGeography analyst and resident satellite guy—to the pod. Listen

403: Mobile as Infrastructure in Africa from 2022-10-11T08:00

Our guest today is Waheed Adam, Global Board Director of the Mobile Ecosystem Forum and Executive Chairperson at iTouch Messaging Service.

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402: Data Centers and the Opportunity at the Edge from 2022-10-04T08:00

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 to dig into NaaS or edge data cente...

401: Simply Illuminating from 2022-09-27T08:00

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 get into making a better mousetrap for the light-switchi...

Introducing TeleGeography Explains the Internet from 2022-09-23T13:41:34

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...

WAN Manager Podcast 316: What’s Wireless Got to Do With It? from 2022-06-21T08:00

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...

WAN Manager Podcast 315: How Enterprises Are Implementing NaaS (And Leaving MPLS) from 2022-06-14T08:00

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 product...

WAN Manager Podcast 314: Untying the Gordian Knot, Unlocking Your Future Network from 2022-06-07T08:00

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 ...

WAN Manager Podcast 313: Very NaaS! from 2022-05-03T08:00

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.

WAN Manager Podcast 312: SASE Isn’t Revolutionary. It’s Evolutionary. from 2022-04-19T08:00

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—espe...

WAN Manager Podcast 311: Running a Network for a Healthcare Company. During a Pandemic. from 2022-04-12T08:00

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...

WAN Manager Podcast 310: How Global Events Impact the Internet from 2022-04-05T08:00

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.

WAN Manager Podcast 309: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Middle Mile? from 2022-03-22T08:00

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 l...

WAN Manager Podcast 308: Data Centers and Digital Transformation from 2022-03-08T08:00

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 ...

WAN Manager Podcast 307: The WAN Managers Have Spoken (For Now) from 2022-02-22T08:00

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 e...

WAN Manager Podcast 306: Integrating Wireless into the WAN from 2022-02-15T08:00

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 ha...

WAN Manager Podcast 306: Integrating Wireless into the WAN from 2022-02-15T08:00

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 ha...

WAN Manager Podcast 305: Upskilling Network Architects for the Automated Network from 2022-02-08T08:00

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 tra...

WAN Manager Podcast 304: The Multicloud-Verse of Madness from 2022-01-25T08:00

We're going to talk about the cloud. More specifically, cloud outages and how to avoid them and mitigate their impacts.

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WAN Manager Podcast 303: 2021 in Review | Part 2 from 2021-12-21T08:00

If you caught last week's special episode of the WAN Manager Podcast, you must be waiting on the edge of your seat f...

WAN Manager Podcast 302: 2021 in Review | Part 1 from 2021-12-14T08:00

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. ...

WAN Manager Podcast 301: Wholesale Pricing and the WAN from 2021-11-23T07:30

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 WAN Manager Po...

WAN Manager Podcast 220: Would an SD-WAN by Any Other Name Smell as Sweet? from 2021-08-04T07:00

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...

WAN Manager Podcast 219: NaaS, Cloud, and the Future of 5G from 2021-07-12T07:00

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 ...

WAN Manager Podcast 218: The Very Definition of SD-WAN from 2021-07-06T08:41:27

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...

WAN Manager Podcast 217: BorgWarner's Big SD-WAN Adventure from 2021-06-28T07:00

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'...

WAN Manager Podcast 216: To the Edge and Back from 2021-06-21T07:15

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 int...

WAN Manager Podcast 215: Managing Multinational Network Modifications from 2021-06-14T07:00

It's another case study episode of the WAN Manager Podcast. Today we welcome Ian Calderbank, Enterprise Network Architect at PageGroup, to the hot seat.

In his conversation with Greg, Ian...

WAN Manager Podcast 214: Citing Our Sources from 2021-06-07T07:00

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 ...

WAN Manager Podcast 213: Nailing Down Network-as-a-Service from 2021-06-01T07:00

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 o...

WAN Manager Podcast 212: Submarine Cables—It's Not Bitcoin from 2021-05-17T07:30

We often say that we'll be taking a "deep dive" into an issue at the beginning of our WAN Manager Podcasts. Today we almost mean that literally, as Greg welcomes TeleGeography Research Director ...

WAN Manager Podcast 211: I'm Just the Middle Mile Man from 2021-05-10T07:00

We're going back to the middle. The middle mile, that is.

Like many telecom terms, this is one that you might have to follow up with “what exactly do you mean by that?”

Greg dives ...

WAN Manager Podcast 210: MPLS is Dead. Long Live MPLS. from 2021-04-27T08:00

The average enterprise network had MPLS running at 82% of sites in 2018. That fell to just 58% in 2020. About one-third have active backups—and a quarter have passive backups—for their MPLS serv...

WAN Manager Podcast 209: Survey Says from 2021-04-19T11:00

Greg is joined by Analyst Elizabeth Thorne to dig into TeleGeography's latest WAN Manager Survey data.

From SD-WAN adoption stats to network configuration preferences and MPLS trends, the...

WAN Manager Podcast 208: The Art of Zen and Network Monitoring from 2021-04-05T07:30

Our latest episode of the WAN Manager Podcast is all about network monitoring.

Greg is joined by Kentik Co-founder and CEO Avi Freedman; they discuss the history of network monitoring, wh...

WAN Manager Podcast 207: SmartNICs, Explained from 2021-03-29T07:00

Most of our listeners are probably familiar with network interface cards (NICs, if you're savvy). But what about SmartNICs?

Fiserv's Michael Wynston is back with a full explainer on what ...

WAN Manager Podcast 206: A Very Global Network from 2021-03-08T07:00

It's a case study episode!

Greg is joined by Johan Ihse, product owner of global connectivity at H&M. As with previous WAN manager interviews, we'll focus on the story behind the network....

WAN Manager Podcast 205: Putting The Data Center Geography in TeleGeography from 2021-03-01T07:00

When our new WAN Geography Benchmark got a bit of buzz earlier this year, we thought it'd be cool ...

WAN Manager Podcast 204: If I Could Turn Back Time from 2021-02-23T11:00

Greg sits down with Daniel Remarc Bognár—the Head of Network Architecture at Norsk Hydro. In this episode, you'll go behind the scenes of a network and walk through the main considerations and m...

WAN Manager Podcast 203: Stuck in the Middle Mile With You from 2021-02-08T07:00

A new class of network provider has emerged, optimizing connectivity between the office and the cloud. What do they offer? How do they do it? And what’s happening between the core backbone and l...

WAN Manager Podcast 202: SFW (Safe for WANs) from 2021-02-01T07:00

What do you think of when you think of integrating security into the WAN? WAN Dynamics' Jason Gintert sees a changing connectivity landscape that presents no shortage of challenges to security t...

WAN Manager Podcast 201: Open Minds, Open Source SD-WAN from 2021-01-25T07:00

What is open source SD-WAN and how is it different from other "open" platforms we've already seen? This was the right question for flexiWAN CEO Amir Zmora, who wanted to get into the SD-WAN spac...

The WAN Manager Podcast Holiday Special: New Year, New WAN from 2020-12-17T07:00

We're back with a bonus holiday episode of the WAN Manager Podcast!

In this special pod, Greg invites TeleGeography Analyst Elizabeth Thorne to look back at the WAN in 2020. (And what a y...

The WAN Manager Podcast 006: Cloudy With a Chance of IaaS from 2020-07-16T08:00

In this week's pod, Greg sits down with Principal Analyst Patrick Christian to talk about TeleGeography's latest cloud and WAN infrastructure research. Patrick brings intel on the physical geogr...

The WAN Manager Podcast 005: The WAN and Working from Home from 2020-07-06T00:01

Greg is joined by Fiserve's Michael Wynston for a COVID-19 update on the impact of remote work on WAN managers.

From This Episode 

COVID-19 and t...

The WAN Manager Podcast 004: Benchmarkers Anonymous from 2020-06-29T00:05

Greg asks an analyst about all things benchmarking. TeleGeography Senior Analyst and Data Science Manager Mike Bisaha steps in to explain best practices in measuring your wide area network again...

The WAN Manager Podcast 003: Going to the Source from 2020-06-22T00:05

Globalinternet Chief Portfolio Officer Mike Lloyd joins Greg to talk about, naturally, sourcing internet.

They zero in on the biggest challenges in internet sourcing and the most efficien...

The WAN Manager Podcast 002: The SD-WAN Marketplace of Ideas from 2020-06-12T17:35:58

Here at the WAN Manager Podcast, it's time to ask an analyst. That means we've invited an expert from TeleGeography to discuss the data behind wide area networking.

Today, Senior Research...

The WAN Manager Podcast 001: A Zero Trust State of Mind from 2020-06-12T15:41:13

Welcome to the first episode of the WAN Manager Podcast. In this special summer series, TeleGeography's Greg Bryan dives into all things wide area networking. He's bringing data, he's calling ne...

Coming Soon: The WAN Manager Podcast from 2020-06-12T14:55:22

TeleGeography's Greg Bryan has a microphone, a seemingly endless supply of data, and the phone numbers of some prominent WAN experts.

Join him for this special series on the world of wide...