Jan 21, 2026
TeleGeography at PTC 2026
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Oct 22, 2025
Global Connectivity Update: a European...
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Telecom Mythbusters - TeleGeography at...
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Jan 2, 2026
Middle East Connectivity Update
Download Paul Brodsky's presentation slides about global and Middle Eastern connectivity.
Jan 20, 2026
TeleGeography at Capacity LATAM 2025
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May 2, 2025
Download TeleGeography's State of the...
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Jan 30, 2026
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TeleGeography’s resource center is your hub for telecom intelligence and analysis from the industry’s...
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Jan 21, 2026
Read This Before Your Next Subsea...
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Jan 13, 2026
Building Network Resiliency with...
Network resilience is a critical concern for every business, regardless of size or industry....
By Greg Bryan
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May 20, 2025
Customers Are Consuming More Bandwidth...
New data from TeleGeography’s Transport Networks Research Service tells a story about changing...
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May 15, 2025
Building Tomorrow’s Internet: A 2025...
A steady stream of investment has driven tremendous growth in subsea cable infrastructure to...
By Paul Brodsky
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May 12, 2025
International Bandwidth Demand...
According to new data from TeleGeography’s Transport Networks Research Service, global...
By Alan Mauldin
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May 8, 2025
The Submarine Cable Boom as Told by a...
There's been lots of conversation about the recent boom in submarine cable construction. This...
By Jayne Miller
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Apr 21, 2025
Finding a Rhythm at Capacity LATAM:...
Industry conferences are like orchestras: they bring together many sounds which may be hard...
By Peter Wood
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Apr 17, 2025
Automate or Bust: What's the Real...
Today on TeleGeography Explains the Internet, we welcome Michael Martin, formerly a global...
By Greg Bryan
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Apr 14, 2025
Fabulous, Unforgiving, Ever-Changing:...
Carl Roberts is feeling energized. The senior ICT executive and advisor to a myriad of C-suite...
By Jayne Miller
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Apr 10, 2025
Mobile Market Overview: Still Buoyant...
At the end of 2024, the global mobile subscription total stood at 8.8 billion, according to...
By Pete Bell
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Apr 7, 2025
Two Decades of Datacloud Global Congress
Datacloud Global Congress returns June 3-5, 2025, in Cannes. And we have a birthday to...
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Apr 3, 2025
One Patent to Rule Them All?...
My family has probably watched Lord of the Rings a dozen times or more1. We can (and sometimes...
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Apr 2, 2025
Bandwidth Demand is Strong in Latin...
It's true. The localization of content, applications, and compute in local hubs like São...
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Mar 31, 2025
What Are CDNs, and What Do They Have To...
Content delivery networks (CDNs) are a geographically distributed network of servers (caches)...
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Mar 26, 2025
Exit Strategy: Telefonica’s Latin...
Back in early 2019, after months of speculation linking Telefonica to a sale of its Central...
By Tom Leins
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Mar 24, 2025
The Lay of the Land (of Local Zones)
In early 2022, AWS announced a new element to its cloud network infrastructure: the local...
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Mar 20, 2025
New on the Pod: Lightyear Considers the...
We're pumped to have Dennis Thankachan, Co-Founder and CEO of Lightyear, back on TeleGeography...
By Greg Bryan
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Mar 17, 2025
What's the Difference Between Lit...
When discussing submarine cable bandwidth, it’s crucial to distinguish between lit capacity...
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Mar 13, 2025
A Significant Slowdown in Cloud Region...
In 2024, 13 new cloud regions were launched globally. This marks a significant slowdown in the...
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Mar 12, 2025
Data Centers 101: Technical Terms You...
From cross connects to PUE, the data center industry is packed with technical jargon. Today,...
By Jon Hjembo
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Mar 6, 2025
The Rise of Fiber
Fiber broadband is now by far the most common means of fixed broadband connectivity worldwide,...
By Pete Bell
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Mar 4, 2025
It’s Time To Learn About Latency
Latency is a term that’s frequently cited when discussing long-haul networks. But what is it...
By Paul Brodsky
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Feb 26, 2025
Mother Earth, Motherboard
A few weeks ago, I returned to sunny Honolulu for TeleGeography’s annual telecom trends...
By Alan Mauldin
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Feb 19, 2025
Evaluating Interconnection Market Health
What makes a city a hub? And what makes a hub healthy? Before we answer these questions, we...
By Jon Hjembo
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Feb 17, 2025
The State of the Network: Your 2025...
Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to the 2025 State of the Network Report—our eighth edition....
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Feb 12, 2025
From Clickbait to Reality: A Deep Dive...
In 2024, we saw many telecom headlines in the mainstream media. There were stories on the...
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Feb 11, 2025
How Do Wholesale Carriers Fit In the...
Broadly speaking, telecom service providers have two ways of connecting traffic to a...
By Paul Brodsky
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Feb 10, 2025
Data Assurance in the Age of AI
What do you envision when you think of data in motion? It's a beautiful, abstract idea. Vinay...
By Greg Bryan
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Feb 5, 2025
An Interconnectivity Expert's Take on...
Digital Infrastructure Industry Expert Maya Glick has two decades in the digital...
By Jayne Miller
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Feb 3, 2025
New Regional Map Depicts 77 Cable...
Make some space on your wall. The 2025 Africa Telecommunications Map is out—and it pairs...
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Feb 3, 2025
Is It Sabotage? Unraveling the Mystery...
Lately, I've been thinking about the movie director Alfred Hitchcock. One of his first big...
By Tim Stronge
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Feb 3, 2025
What's the Difference Between...
If you’ve checked out our International Voice Report, you probably noticed that the data...
By Paul Brodsky
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Jan 29, 2025
Peering Into the European Bandwidth...
The European telecommunications market has been a global trailblazer in terms of innovation,...
By Rob Schult
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Jan 22, 2025
The Impact of AI on Submarine Cable...
Submarine networks enable uninterrupted connectivity among geographically dispersed physical...
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Jan 20, 2025
What You Need to Know About Network as...
Welcome back, TeleGeography Explains the Internet listeners. We took a nice long break for the...
By Jayne Miller
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Jan 20, 2025
Futuristic 2025 Submarine Cable Map...
Happy New Year? Now it is, because we just dropped our 2025 Submarine Cable Map. Sponsored by...
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Jan 15, 2025
5G Comes to Vietnam
Vietnamese military-run telecom operator Viettel reports impressive uptake figures since...
By Pete Bell
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Jan 10, 2025
The Subsea Cables Connecting LATAM and...
Ah, São Paulo. A critical market for Latin American connectivity (just ask our Market...
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Jan 9, 2025
A Bit Over-The-Top: What Is OTT Traffic?
The international voice market's trajectory is an inexorable downward spiral, and...
By Paul Brodsky
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Dec 20, 2024
2024: A Telecom Year in Review
Happy holidays, TeleGeography Explains the Internet listeners. We hope you're savoring the...
By Jayne Miller
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Dec 16, 2024
When Networking and Security Collide
There's a common theme we encounter here at TeleGeography Explains the Internet. The...
By Greg Bryan
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Dec 12, 2024
More Cables, More Redundancy, and...
Last month, I had the pleasure of speaking at Cairo ICT about colocation and connectivity...
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Dec 5, 2024
Internet Sourcing, as Explained by an...
For TeleGeography Explains the Internet to truly explain the internet, sometimes we have to...
By Greg Bryan
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Nov 27, 2024
Three Interconnection Hubs To Keep an...
ICYMI: we recently launched a dynamic new tool called the Market Connectivity Score (MCS). The...
By Jon Hjembo
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Nov 21, 2024
What To Know About Submarine Cable...
Earlier this week, operators of two communications cables—C-Lion 1 and BCS East-West...
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Nov 21, 2024
A Guide to Calculating the World's Next...
Where are we building data centers? Why? What markets are primed for interconnectivity glory?...
By Greg Bryan
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Nov 20, 2024
Data Center Capacity Growth: The Haves...
Our Data Center Research Service estimates that there are 24 metropolitan markets that have...
By Jon Hjembo
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Nov 15, 2024
Who Orchestrates the Orchestrators?
Last week on the pod, we shared what network managers need to know about AI and machine...
By Greg Bryan
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Nov 13, 2024
Data Centers: That’s a Lot of Power!
The data center market is in the midst of an unprecedented shift that started—publicly at...
By Jon Hjembo
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Nov 12, 2024
Reach for the Stars: How Starlink...
Starlink, the satellite broadband provider operated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX unit, is making...
By Tom Leins
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Nov 5, 2024
Mobile Monsters: The World’s Biggest...
Earlier this year, China Mobile hit one billion mobile subscriptions. In a country of more...
By Pete Bell
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Nov 1, 2024
The Fastest-Growing City for Data...
Many of the world’s top data center markets face issues such as rising energy costs,...
By Jon Hjembo
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Oct 31, 2024
What Network Managers Should Know About...
It's 2024. We obviously had to do an AI episode of the pod. And for that, we welcome our guest...
By Greg Bryan
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Oct 30, 2024
The 2025 Internet Provider Connectivity...
Our IP Networks Research Service—which recently underwent its big annual update—includes an...
By Paul Brodsky
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Oct 24, 2024
What to Know About Direct-to-Device...
For our next episode of TeleGeography Explains the Internet, we look to the sky. Our guest is...
By Greg Bryan
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Oct 23, 2024
Six Insights from Our 2024 Business...
The role of business broadband in WAN architecture is evolving. It’s no longer just a backup...
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Oct 17, 2024
Chinese vs. U.S. Network Infrastructure...
Competition between the United States and China continues to be a hot topic. Take The...
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Oct 17, 2024
The History of U.S. Telecom Policy (in...
TeleGeography Explains the Internet is back from summer break. We return a little older, a...
By Greg Bryan
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Oct 16, 2024
Mapping African Network Geography at...
Another year, another African Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF) keynote presentation...
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Oct 10, 2024
Ethernet in the WAN
Carrier-grade Ethernet is a critical piece of today’s enterprise WAN, and carriers continue to...
Blog
Oct 2, 2024
Escaping the Matrix: AI and Submarine...
We are now moving from sci-fi to reality with the launch of many AI services that are poised...
By Alan Mauldin
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Sep 26, 2024
Once a Builder of the Internet, Now an...
Sylvie LaPerrière, one of TeleGeography's esteemed partners, is a known tech leader in the...
By Rob Schult
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Sep 24, 2024
The Man With a Golden Interconnectivity...
Many locations around the world are clamoring to become the next great hub. But before we can...
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Sep 12, 2024
5G Potential in Europe
The first commercial 5G mobile networks were launched in Europe in mid-2019. Roughly one year...
By Pete Bell
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Sep 5, 2024
Hey, Who’s Using the Bandwidth?
To many people, the concepts of global network infrastructure and bandwidth markets are...
By Paul Brodsky
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Aug 15, 2024
SD-WAN vs MPLS: Battling for Network...
Grab your headphones, we've got a podcast recommendation. TeleGeography Senior Manager of...
By Jayne Miller
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Aug 12, 2024
Business Broadband in Africa: Notes...
As our summer internship session winds down, TeleGeography welcomes summer pricing intern Zar...
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Jul 23, 2024
The Altnets Spearheading the UK’s...
British telecom regulator Ofcom recently published its Connected Nations report for 2023. The...
By Tom Leins
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Jul 10, 2024
6G in Six Years?
In May 2021, TeleGeography reviewed the early stages of development of 6G mobile technology....
By Pete Bell
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Jun 20, 2024
How Are Network Pros Integrating Cloud...
As cloud adoption becomes increasingly necessary for multinational enterprises, networks are...
By Greg Bryan
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Jun 17, 2024
We Asked WAN Managers About SD-WAN +...
With the release of our new WAN Manager Survey intel, it was only a matter of time before we...
By Greg Bryan
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Jun 13, 2024
Pssst. What Does Your Network...
Enterprises have embraced hybrid networks. The expansion of SD-WAN, the benefits of having...
By Greg Bryan
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Jun 11, 2024
Mike Constable Considers Infrastructure...
Mike Constable has logged many hours in digital infrastructure. He's the mind behind...
By Jayne Miller
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Jun 6, 2024
Seven Findings From Our Latest WAN...
With a new normal of hybrid work established, trends in network services are once again...
By Greg Bryan
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May 30, 2024
Where Are All the Internet Exchanges?
If you’re a regular on this blog, you're probably familiar with our submarine cable and cloud...
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May 28, 2024
Why Does Diversity Matter for Submarine...
Last week, I joined Ciena’s Brian Lavallée and Colt’s Laurent Taieb for a live webinar all...
By Alan Mauldin
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May 17, 2024
Dr. Steve Grubb Looks Forward to the...
Dr. Steve Grubb’s fascination with subsea cable technology began in the 1990s. Thirty years...
By Jayne Miller
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May 10, 2024
Hervé Février Wants to Troubleshoot the...
Dr. Hervé Février has an engineer's brain. (His colleagues have actually used the term...
By Jayne Miller
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May 3, 2024
Philip Low Plans for AI Deployment and...
Philip Low, Chairman of Platform Markets Group and Managing Director of Headwinds Consultants,...
By Jayne Miller
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Apr 25, 2024
Are You Paying the Right Price for...
The enterprise wide area network (WAN) market is in a state of flux, forcing multinational...
By Greg Bryan
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Apr 18, 2024
Mobile and Fixed Broadband Sectors...
According to TeleGeography’s GlobalComms Database, the global mobile subscription total stood...
By Pete Bell
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Apr 11, 2024
How an Unlikely Spanish Merger...
Last month saw the conclusion of the long-running mega-merger between Orange España and Grupo...
By Tom Leins
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Apr 9, 2024
What Did Our Submarine Cable Map Look...
The TeleGeography Submarine Cable Map is our longest-running map project. We started producing...
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Apr 4, 2024
All About Cloud Regions, Zones, and...
Today, I'm breaking down three fundamental components of cloud networks. Cloud Regions....
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Apr 3, 2024
The Reality of Latin American...
A few weeks ago, TeleGeography headed back to São Paulo to participate in the Capacity Latin...
By Peter Wood
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Mar 28, 2024
Let’s Get Physical: Where Do Carriers...
The geographic coverage of carriers’ enterprise network services varies significantly. Not...
By Greg Bryan
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Mar 25, 2024
Nigeria: Africa’s Mobile Giant
Nigeria is home to Africa’s biggest mobile market by some distance, with 217.5 million...
By Pete Bell
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Mar 21, 2024
This Region Added the Most New Cloud...
Globally, 23 new cloud regions were launched in 2023. Let’s break that down by region. Which...
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Mar 15, 2024
Beyond the Red Sea Blues: West Africa...
As if three cable faults in the Red Sea weren’t enough of a headache, a series of West African...
By Alan Mauldin
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Mar 7, 2024
What is a WAN?
Welcome back to TeleGeography Explains the Internet. We've reached the finale of our five-part...
By Greg Bryan
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Mar 5, 2024
What We Know (And Don't) About Multiple...
We recently wrote about how Houthi attacks in the Red Sea are causing headaches for the...
By Tim Stronge
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Feb 29, 2024
What is the Cloud?
Welcome back to our five-part podcast special that seeks to demystify the internet. Our last...
By Greg Bryan
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Feb 22, 2024
What Are Data Centers?
We're back with episode three of our five-part podcast special, which explains the nuts and...
By Greg Bryan
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Feb 15, 2024
What is a Transport Network?
Welcome back to our five-part podcast special that literally explains how the internet you...
By Greg Bryan
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Feb 8, 2024
What is the Internet?
If you've caught TeleGeography's podcast, you'll know that we endeavor to explain the business...
By Greg Bryan
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Feb 6, 2024
China: The World’s Biggest 5G Market
With an estimated 750 million active subscriptions at the end of September 2023, China has the...
By Pete Bell
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Jan 23, 2024
Wi-Fi 6 Afraid of 7?
On TeleGeography Explains the Internet, we often focus on the long-haul, zeroing in on the...
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Jan 17, 2024
The Red Sea: A Key Subsea Cable...
The Red Sea is a global hot spot at the moment due to repeated attacks by Yemeni Houthi rebels...
By Alan Mauldin
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Jan 11, 2024
Ranking the World’s Largest...
Many retail service providers, such as mobile operators, MVNOs, and cable broadband providers,...
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Jan 10, 2024
How Is the Global Network Keeping Up...
By any measure, the global bandwidth market is thriving. International bandwidth demand has...
By Jon Hjembo
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Jan 4, 2024
Where Did the Minutes Go?
The year 2014 represents the peak for international voice traffic. International call minutes...
By Paul Brodsky
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Dec 27, 2023
Iliad and Vodafone: More Consolidation...
French telco group Iliad has submitted a proposal to UK-based Vodafone Group regarding the...
By Pete Bell
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Dec 18, 2023
Colocation Pricing Trends To Watch
The pressures of supply chain disruptions, electricity price volatility, and government...
By Jon Hjembo
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Dec 11, 2023
Where in the World Is the Largest Data...
By our 2023 estimates, the Washington metropolitan area—or more specifically Northern Virginia...
By Jon Hjembo
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Dec 4, 2023
The Data Center Industry Faces New...
Recently, we’ve been closely monitoring the intensifying pressures of insatiable demand and...
By Jon Hjembo
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Nov 30, 2023
Want To Retire in Your 20s? Become a...
Wouldn't it be great to be fully retired before your 30th birthday? Because they are...
By Alan Mauldin
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Nov 21, 2023
Head in the Cloud, Toes at the Edge
I'm back with a new episode of TeleGeography Explains the Internet. In the hot seat this time:...
By Greg Bryan
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Nov 15, 2023
All Change in Ethiopia
Until recently, Ethiopia was one of the few telecom markets in the world that was still a...
By Pete Bell
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Nov 13, 2023
Beware of Deep Fake TeleGeography
The age of generative AI is certainly exciting. The ability to quickly access answers to...
By Alan Mauldin
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Oct 31, 2023
How Geography Influences Network...
Today’s TeleGeography Explains the Internet guest comes to the security world with a deep...
By Greg Bryan
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Oct 25, 2023
Do Svidaniya: VEON Exits Russia
Following the sale of its local operations on October 9, 2023, Amsterdam-based multinational...
By Pete Bell
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Oct 19, 2023
These Factors Will Influence the...
While artificial intelligence (AI) has been the most hyped demand driver in recent years, its...
By Paul Brodsky
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Oct 17, 2023
How Do Targeted Ads Work? Is My Phone...
Why am I getting ads for this toothpaste? How could my devices possibly know I'm in the market...
By Greg Bryan
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Oct 12, 2023
Tracking International Internet Traffic...
Three years after the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the internet seems to have achieved a state of...
By Paul Brodsky
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Oct 11, 2023
Inside Asia’s Increasing Demand for...
In a recent interview with Asian Telecom, I was asked to shed light on Asia’s prominence in...
By Marvin Tan
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Sep 26, 2023
How NaaS Relates to SDN and Automation
The newest member of the TeleGeography Explains the Internet club is telecom industry veteran...
By Greg Bryan
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Sep 14, 2023
New Network Security Analysis Tracks...
We recently surveyed a mixture of carriers and MSPs, SD-WAN vendors, and pure-play security...
By Greg Bryan
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Sep 5, 2023
Are These WAN Sourcing Trends Real or...
Season 5 of TeleGeography Explains the Internet is here, and we're kicking things off with...
By Greg Bryan
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Aug 31, 2023
How Common SASE Products Are Being...
Our Cloud and WAN Research Service just unveiled a fourth WAN analysis module, and it's all...
By Greg Bryan
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Aug 24, 2023
Eight Enterprise Products, Explained
The geographic coverage of carriers’ enterprise network services varies significantly. Not...
By Paul Brodsky
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Aug 22, 2023
Fiber Fever: Meet the ISPs Driving FTTH...
Earlier this month, South African ISP Vumatel announced that its fiber-to-the-home (FTTH)...
By Tom Leins
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Aug 17, 2023
These Two Regions Account For About 65%...
Cloud services have become a critical component of many enterprises' data management. And how...
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Aug 15, 2023
Target Acquired: e& Sets Its Sights on...
United Arab Emirates (UAE) telco e&—formerly known as Etisalat Group—is slowly but surely...
By Pete Bell
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Aug 8, 2023
How the Cost of Network Ownership Can...
In case you missed it, we’re looking back at some previous hypothetical network scenarios to...
By Rob Schult
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Aug 3, 2023
How the Cost of Network Ownership Can...
Enterprise customers have embraced hybrid networks that employ multiple underlay technologies...
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Jul 26, 2023
Deal or No Deal? Meet the Regional ISPs...
Earlier this month, Brazilian regional ISPs Vero Internet and AmericaNet agreed to merge their...
By Tom Leins
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Jul 20, 2023
Content Providers Are Still Hungry for...
Earlier this week, I joined Ciena and Telstra for a live webinar highlighting Asia-Pacific...
By Marvin Tan
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Jul 13, 2023
How Telefonica Embraced Strategic...
Earlier this month, international telecom group Telefonica entered into its fourth Latin...
By Tom Leins
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Jul 12, 2023
SD-What? A Quick Explanation of What...
Corporate traffic patterns continue to change. And static, single technology transport...
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Jul 6, 2023
What’s the Difference Between FTTC,...
There are a lot of acronyms used in the telecommunications space, and it can be tough to keep...
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Jun 28, 2023
Chinese Checkers: Will the EU Block...
In the last few years, Huawei, ZTE, and other Chinese equipment suppliers have come under...
By Pete Bell
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Jun 22, 2023
Satellite Mergers, Acquisitions, and...
Connectivity by satellite is not new, but expanding networks via low earth orbit (LEO) is a...
By Peter Wood
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Jun 20, 2023
5G Frequency Frenzy: A Guide to Latin...
In sharp contrast to other regions, only a handful of Latin American telecom markets have seen...
By Tom Leins
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Jun 14, 2023
Get Acquainted With Our Cloud...
If you're not familiar with TeleGeography’s Cloud Infrastructure Map—a free tool that tracks...
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Jun 12, 2023
2023 Update: Industry Practices and...
In 2019, my colleague Alan Mauldin and I busted the myth that the submarine cable industry’s...
By Tim Stronge
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Jun 7, 2023
Latin American Pricing Takeaways From...
Last month, the TeleGeography team joined scores of ICT infrastructure professionals in...
By Peter Wood
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May 18, 2023
Is This the Greatest Shortcoming of the...
At SubOptic 2023, my colleague Tim Stronge and I brought back the Telecom Mythbusters to test...
By Alan Mauldin
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May 10, 2023
Shaw Thing: Canadian Merger Finally a...
A long-running telecom saga came to an end last month with the conclusion of the C$25 billion...
By Pete Bell
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May 4, 2023
Do Submarine Cables Account For Over...
“Submarine cables account for over 99% of intercontinental data traffic” is regularly quoted...
By Alan Mauldin
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Apr 25, 2023
Surveying the WANscape
This week, Season 4 of TeleGeography Explains the Internet ends on a high note with Junior...
By Greg Bryan
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Apr 20, 2023
Is the Lifespan of a Submarine Cable...
“The lifespan of a submarine cable is 25 years.” We’ve all heard that, right? Is this...
By Alan Mauldin
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Apr 18, 2023
What Happens to Cables When The Earth...
How are submarine cables impacted by tectonic shifts beneath the seafloor? This week's guests...
By Greg Bryan
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Apr 13, 2023
The Rise and Fall of a Caribbean...
Earlier this year, it was revealed that Denis O’Brien—the Irish businessman who founded...
By Tom Leins
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Apr 12, 2023
The Inspiration Behind Our 2023...
While our interactive submarine cable map is updated on a rolling basis, printed editions are...
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Apr 11, 2023
Staying a Step Ahead of Mobile...
I think this is a milestone. This might be the first episode of TeleGeography Explains the...
By Greg Bryan
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Apr 6, 2023
Do $10 Trillion of Financial...
The press regularly reports that $10 trillion of financial transactions flow over submarine...
By Tim Stronge
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Mar 29, 2023
Real Talk: Are WAN Managers Adopting...
As cloud adoption becomes increasingly necessary for multinational enterprises, backend...
By Greg Bryan
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Mar 28, 2023
What Makes a WAN Truly Secure?
I've always known Aryaka Networks as service provider with a different approach to enterprise...
By Greg Bryan
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Mar 27, 2023
Tracking 5G Deployments in the Middle...
According to the latest data from TeleGeography’s GlobalComms Database Service, as of March...
By Pete Bell
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Mar 15, 2023
WAN Configurations Are Shifting
Network underlays have been in transition as more enterprises install SD-WAN services and...
By Greg Bryan
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Mar 14, 2023
Confessions of a Telecom Investor
On TeleGeography Explains the Internet, I typically interview guests who work in the telecom...
By Greg Bryan
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Mar 9, 2023
Behind the Seas: Making Our Famous...
There's a good chance that you first heard about TeleGeography through one of our maps....
By Greg Bryan
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Feb 7, 2023
The Death of Voice Has Been Greatly...
Why has it taken us this long to welcome Senior Research Manager Paul Brodsky—an A+ podcast...
By Greg Bryan
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Jan 24, 2023
SASE and Secure
This week on TeleGeography Explains the Internet we welcome Jeremiah Ginn, Software Defined...
By Greg Bryan
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Jan 23, 2023
The Panama Paper Trail: Tracking Five...
Back in 2018, the Panamanian government rubber-stamped long-gestating plans to reduce the...
By Tom Leins
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Jan 17, 2023
A Brief History of Networking as a...
This week's guest on TeleGeography Explains the Internet has a deep history in networking....
By Greg Bryan
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Jan 12, 2023
Shake-up in Hungary as Vodafone Exits
U.K.-based Vodafone Group has agreed to leave the Hungarian telecom market after more than 20...
By Pete Bell
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Jan 10, 2023
Protected vs. Unprotected Circuits
You’ve always been told to hope for the best and prepare for the worst. Telecommunications...
By Jayne Miller
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Jan 4, 2023
AI vs. TeleGeography: The Submarine...
The TG team is enjoying OpenAI's new ChatGPT—an artificial intelligence assistant trained to...
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Dec 27, 2022
Feeling '22: A Telecom Year in Review,...
We're looking back at all things telecom in 2022. And we're doing it the best way we know how:...
By Jayne Miller
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Dec 20, 2022
2022 in Telecom: A Year in Review
Another December, another opportunity to reflect on the year that was. And that's exactly what...
By Jayne Miller
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As telecom analysts, my TeleGeography colleagues and I have been busy attending conferences...
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The Digital Divide Episode
James “Jim” Capuano has logged over 30 years in the telecommunications industry. And he's the...
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Hypothetical Network Series #5: Let’s...
So far, we’ve looked at several more conservative approaches to constructing a hybrid WAN. But...
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Dec 6, 2022
Orchestrating the Service Lifecycle
In 2021, MEF CTO Pascal Menezes walked us through the work MEF is doing on standardizing the...
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Dec 5, 2022
Turkcell Unsuccessful With Iran Lawsuit
South Africa’s MTN Group has announced the end of a decade-long legal battle centered on its...
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Nov 30, 2022
Sizing the WAN Market
As the WAN continues to evolve at warp speed, carriers, vendors, and enterprise IT...
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Nov 28, 2022
Hypothetical Network Series #4:...
The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed the way we work. And our next scenario illustrates...
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Nov 23, 2022
Key Findings From Our Latest WAN Market...
After tracking the WAN market size in 2020 and 2021 with our WAN Market Size Report, we began...
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Nov 22, 2022
Unraveling the Fabric Providers of...
This week, we're talking about NaaS. Sure, we've covered NaaS in various contexts on...
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Nov 21, 2022
Hypothetical Network Series #3: BYOB...
So far, we’ve looked at integrating DIA and business broadband into a hybrid WAN. But there...
By Greg Bryan
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Nov 15, 2022
Unpacking Network Observability
If you want to do a proper review of the state of the corporate WAN—in light of digital...
By Greg Bryan
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Nov 14, 2022
Hypothetical Network Series #2: Tiered...
Use of the internet in corporate WANs is quickly growing. And for good reason. Not only are...
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Nov 7, 2022
Hypothetical Network Series #1: High...
Back in 2019, we built a hypothetical network to illustrate how different network...
By Greg Bryan
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Oct 20, 2022
The Data Center Sector: An Uncertain...
There’s a remarkable sense of uncertainty in the data center sector right now. Some of the...
By Jon Hjembo
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Oct 19, 2022
A Passage to India: 5G Finally Arrives
The second most populous nation in the world, India, also boasts the world’s second-largest...
By Pete Bell
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Oct 5, 2022
Price Erosion Remains the Universal Norm
Our latest Global Internet Geography Research Service refresh came with new pricing data. And...
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Oct 4, 2022
Data Centers and the Opportunity at the...
When I reached out to today's podcast guest—Jim Poole, Vice President of Business Development...
By Greg Bryan
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Oct 3, 2022
Gloomy Economic Indicators… Scary...
Some pretty ominous headlines have been circulating around the world lately regarding the risk...
By Alan Mauldin
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Sep 27, 2022
Simply Illuminating: Considering the...
Welcome back, podcast listeners. We're thrilled to dive into a new season of telecom tech...
By Jayne Miller
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Sep 21, 2022
Africa’s Mobile Sector: Still Room for...
Africa’s mobile communications market continues to grow at a steady pace. And take up shows no...
By Pete Bell
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Sep 7, 2022
How MTN Hung Up on the Middle East
Last month, it was revealed that South Africa’s MTN Group received a $31 million offer from an...
By Tom Leins
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Aug 24, 2022
There’s No Comparison to Fiber
If you've ever made a “telephone” with a pair of tin cans and a string, you have an idea of...
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Aug 11, 2022
A is for Autonomous System: The Telecom...
Let's face it—there are a lot of definitions to memorize in the telecom space. And if you've...
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Aug 4, 2022
The Global SD-WAN Market for Large...
The results are in. According to our research, the global SD-WAN market for large...
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Aug 3, 2022
How LEO Satellite Connectivity Might...
Endeavors like SpaceX’s Starlink and Amazon’s Project Kuiper have brought lots of attention to...
By Peter Wood
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Jul 20, 2022
Expectations for India’s Used...
Here's a headline you might have caught recently. Our research indicates that India’s used...
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Jul 18, 2022
How a Complete SD-WAN Overlay Can...
To provide insight into how a complete SD-WAN overlay can impact total network spend, it’s...
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Jul 14, 2022
China’s New Arrival: Say Hello to...
China has a new player in the 5G mobile market. We’re talking about China Broadnet—but it’s...
By Pete Bell
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Jul 5, 2022
A Spanish Sub-Brand Squeeze Out
The last year has seen a number of well-known sub-brands withdraw from the Spanish mobile...
By Tom Leins
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Jun 30, 2022
New Cables Are Coming to Africa
While used international bandwidth has significantly increased in Africa in recent years, the...
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Jun 21, 2022
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...
By Jayne Miller
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Jun 14, 2022
How Enterprises Are Implementing NaaS...
NaaS and middle mile are fairly new concepts in the industry, but they're old hat on...
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Jun 13, 2022
Ukraine’s Inbound Voice Traffic Is...
You already know that Ukrainians are taking to platforms like Twitter, Telegram, and TikTok to...
By Tim Stronge
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Jun 8, 2022
Meet the Cellcos Serving Rural America:...
Welcome to Part 2 of our analysis of the regional cellular scene in the United States! In this...
By Tom Leins
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Jun 7, 2022
Untying the Gordian Knot, Unlocking...
The TeleGeography team began benchmarking networks almost a decade ago. Back then, the big use...
By Jayne Miller
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May 16, 2022
Africell off to a Strong Start in Angola
The pan-African telecom group Africell has broken Angola’s long-standing mobile market duopoly...
By Pete Bell
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May 3, 2022
The Need for NaaS
Our readers likely know about NaaS: cloud-based network architecture that allows a WAN manager...
By Jayne Miller
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Apr 21, 2022
Considering Cloud Connectivity Providers
If you’re an enterprise network manager in need of a dedicated cloud connection service,...
By Greg Bryan
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Apr 19, 2022
SASE Isn't Revolutionary. It's...
Here's a hot take: the networking hype cycle has moved on from SD-WAN in favor of SASE and now...
By Jayne Miller
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Apr 13, 2022
Meet the Cellcos Serving Rural America:...
The U.S. mobile market is notoriously ultra-competitive, and household names like Sprint...
By Tom Leins
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Apr 12, 2022
Running a Network for a Healthcare...
WAN managers had to scramble to accommodate massive changes when the world shut down during...
By Jayne Miller
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Apr 5, 2022
How Global Events Impact the Internet
We've discussed the ways in which the WAN is moving away from private networks and MPLS in...
By Jayne Miller
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Mar 30, 2022
Ukrainian Telcos: Communicating Through...
We recently took a look at Ukrainian operators and their relative positions in the country’s...
By Pete Bell
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Mar 29, 2022
Mobile Merger Season: Examining M&A...
Recent months have seen an unprecedented level of M&A activity across Asia’s mobile markets,...
By Tom Leins
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Mar 28, 2022
SD-WAN's Shift to Security
While the key SD-WAN transformation use case was built around network cost and resiliency, its...
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Mar 21, 2022
Unpacking SD-WAN Prices
Unlike network services, SD-WAN is not a commodity, and pricing strategies are still in flux....
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Mar 8, 2022
Data Centers and Digital Transformation
When it comes to the cloud and digital transformation of the enterprise, it's always useful to...
By Jayne Miller
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Mar 7, 2022
Sanctions Start to Hit Russia’s Tech...
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24 has spurred a raft of sanctions from Western...
By Pete Bell
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Feb 23, 2022
Scandinavian Skirmishes & Baltic...
Last year, we investigated how major Scandinavian telecom groups Telenor, Telia, and Tele2...
By Tom Leins
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Feb 22, 2022
The WAN Managers Have Spoken (For Now)
We've crunched the numbers from our 2021 survey of WAN managers, and our new analysis is ready...
By Jayne Miller
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Feb 15, 2022
Integrating Wireless into the WAN
One of the earliest and most persistent use cases for SD-WAN has been the ability to utilize...
By Jayne Miller
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Feb 10, 2022
Prices Are Falling in Colombia. Here’s...
Anyone familiar with our Pricing Suite knows that São Paulo is Latin America’s de facto center...
By Peter Wood
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Feb 9, 2022
Iliad Takes the Fight to Italy's...
French-owned telecom group Iliad has begun the next phase of its expansion in Italy, moving...
By Pete Bell
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Feb 8, 2022
Upskilling Network Architects for the...
Network automation pops up often on our podcast. But—you know what's under-discussed? The HR...
By Jayne Miller
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Feb 4, 2022
Global DIA Prices and Trends
In a recent analysis, we highlighted how DIA has gained ground as an integral part of the...
By Greg Bryan
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Jan 26, 2022
Meet the Acquisition-Hungry ICT Firm...
The telecom landscape in Eastern Europe has changed dramatically over the last decade, with...
By Tom Leins
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Jan 25, 2022
Understanding the Multicloud-Verse of...
We're going to talk about the cloud. More specifically, cloud outages and how to avoid them...
By Jayne Miller
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Jan 13, 2022
Greece Lightning: Greek Plans for...
In December, Greece's OTE Group announced a major broadband investment plan. The group...
By Pete Bell
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Jan 3, 2022
Wireless Broadband in WAN
Business broadband is no longer a connection of last resort. In fact, it is an integral part...
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Dec 27, 2021
What Problem is the Middle Mile Trying...
As global enterprises become more reliant on cloud—and start to break away or reduce their...
By Greg Bryan
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Dec 21, 2021
2021 WAN in Review: Part 2
If you caught last week's special episode of the WAN Manager Podcast, you must be waiting on...
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Dec 14, 2021
2021 WAN in Review
If you've been a loyal listener of the WAN Manager Podcast, you might remember that Greg Bryan...
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Dec 7, 2021
Moa Capital Acquires TeleGeography
A quick bit of news from the TeleGeography team. TeleGeography has been acquired by Moa...
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Nov 23, 2021
Wholesale Pricing and the WAN
While a fifteen-year friendship with Greg is not a prerequisite for guests on the pod, it sure...
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Nov 22, 2021
WAN Pricing Over Time
We've written before about how prices vary by geography. It almost goes without saying that...
By Greg Bryan
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Nov 8, 2021
Underlay Changes: MPLS vs. DIA Pricing
In the past few decades, the corporate WAN has undergone a few massive reformations. Early on,...
By Greg Bryan
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Oct 27, 2021
What's the Difference Between Traffic...
If you find yourself questioning the difference between traffic and bandwidth, here's an...
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Oct 25, 2021
Out of this World: The International...
Starlink—the satellite broadband venture established by Elon Musk’s SpaceX business—has...
By Tom Leins
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Oct 19, 2021
Who Really Cares About Latency?
Specifically, which applications and network operators have latency on their minds? Well,...
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Sep 7, 2021
Global Internet Traffic and Capacity...
Here's the headline: global internet bandwidth rose by 29% in 2021. You could consider this a...
By Alan Mauldin
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Aug 12, 2021
3G’s Sun is Setting in Europe
More and more wireless operators in Europe are announcing plans to switch off their 3G...
By Pete Bell
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Aug 4, 2021
Would an SD-WAN by Any Other Name Smell...
As we dig into technical standards and definitions, MEF has come up several times on this...
By Jayne Miller
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Jul 30, 2021
The Blue and Raman Cable Systems Stand...
It's likely that you've read the news by now. Google is teaming up with Telecom Italia Sparkle...
By Paul Brodsky
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Jul 12, 2021
NaaS, Cloud, and the Future of 5G
Listeners know that we've covered middle mile and NaaS on this show. We've also touched on the...
By Jayne Miller
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Jul 6, 2021
The Very Definition of SD-WAN
When TeleGeography started tracking the SD-WAN market in 2017, we found dozens of vendors...
By Jayne Miller
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Jun 28, 2021
BorgWarner's Big SD-WAN Adventure
Are you like the (approximately) half of our survey respondents who have not yet adopted...
By Jayne Miller
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Jun 21, 2021
To the Edge and Back
Today we're living on the edge! Whether we're talking security and SASE, NaaS, or cloud...
By Jayne Miller
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Jun 14, 2021
Managing Multinational Network...
It's another case study episode of the podcast. Today, we welcome Ian Calderbank, Enterprise...
By Jayne Miller
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Jun 1, 2021
Nailing Down Network-as-a-Service
Our data shows that most enterprises have more than one IaaS provider. For SaaS, that number...
By Jayne Miller
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May 27, 2021
Behind the Madagascan Company in the...
Last month Luxembourg-based Millicom International Cellular sealed a pair of deals that will...
By Tom Leins
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May 20, 2021
Trans-Pacific Cable Chaos, Shifting...
It’s been a year since the U.S. government denied a cable license to the Pacific Light Cable...
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May 17, 2021
Submarine Cables: It's Not Bitcoin
We often say that we'll be taking a "deep dive" into an issue at the beginning of our...
By Jayne Miller
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Apr 27, 2021
What Role Will MPLS Play in the Future...
The average enterprise network had MPLS running at 82% of sites in 2018. That fell to just 58%...
By Jayne Miller
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Apr 26, 2021
Tracking TracFone: Meet the Prepaid...
In September 2020, U.S. telecom giant Verizon announced the surprise takeover of prepaid MVNO...
By Tom Leins
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Apr 23, 2021
How Will Broadband Prices Fare Against...
Despite the expanding role satellite providers have in delivering connectivity, the vast...
By Peter Wood
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Apr 19, 2021
WAN Manager Survey Data: Let's Do The...
In today's episode of the WAN Manager Podcast, Greg is joined by Analyst Elizabeth Thorne to...
By Jayne Miller
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Apr 5, 2021
The Art of Zen and Network Monitoring
The latest episode of the podcast is all about network monitoring. Most of the enterprises we...
By Jayne Miller
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Mar 29, 2021
SmartNICs, Explained
Most of our listeners are probably familiar with network interface cards (NICs, if you're...
By Jayne Miller
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Mar 24, 2021
Deal-Making Down Under: Oceania's Wave...
Earlier this month, Australian telecom group Vocus accepted a $2.7 billion (AUD3.5 billion)...
By Tom Leins
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Mar 8, 2021
A Very Special Episode About a Very...
It's a case study episode! Greg is joined by Johan Ihse, product owner of global connectivity...
By Jayne Miller
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Mar 5, 2021
What is Internet Middle Mile?
With the middle mile emerging as one of the next major topics of interest for global...
By Jayne Miller
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Mar 1, 2021
Putting The Data Center Geography in...
When our new WAN Geography Benchmark got a bit of buzz earlier this year, we thought it'd be...
By Jayne Miller
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Feb 23, 2021
Designing a Network for Now (And Five...
Our resident podcaster Greg Bryan recently sat down with Daniel Remarc Bognár—the Head of...
By Jayne Miller
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Feb 8, 2021
Stuck in the Middle Mile With You
A new class of network provider has emerged, optimizing connectivity between the office and...
By Jayne Miller
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Feb 1, 2021
SFW: Safe for WANs
What do you think of when you think of integrating security into the WAN? WAN Dynamics' Jason...
By Jayne Miller
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Jan 26, 2021
Tower Talk: Meet the Companies Buying...
Latin America has been a hotbed of M&A activity in recent years. And it isn’t just telecom...
By Tom Leins
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Jan 25, 2021
Open Minds, Open Source SD-WAN
What is open source SD-WAN, and how is it different from other "open" platforms we've already...
By Jayne Miller
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Jan 14, 2021
Data Center Matchmaking: Finding Your...
🎶Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make me a match, Find a facility That's a real catch Matchmaker,...
By Jayne Miller
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Jan 11, 2021
Wholesale Carriers Terminated...
Many retail service providers—such as mobile operators, MVNOs, and cable broadband...
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Dec 17, 2020
Ponder the Future of the WAN With a...
We're back with a bonus holiday episode of the podcast! In this special episode, Greg invites...
By Jayne Miller
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Nov 19, 2020
Three Facts From Our New WAN Market...
If you've perused our research catalog lately, you'll know that we have a new WAN Market Size...
By Greg Bryan
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Sep 15, 2020
Carriers Are Restructuring Across Latin...
Market patterns aren’t the only forces impacting carriers. Shifts in strategy, corporate...
By Peter Wood
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Aug 19, 2020
Sprint Reaches the Finish Line: The...
On April 1, T-Mobile US and Sprint Corporation completed their long-awaited merger. It was the...
By Tom Leins
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Jul 23, 2020
How to Connect to the Cloud
A simple broadband connection to the internet remains one of the most common ways to access...
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Jul 16, 2020
What to Know About Connecting to Your...
Around three in four enterprises that responded to our latest WAN Manager Survey reported...
By Jayne Miller
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Jul 6, 2020
The WAN and Working From Home
For several months now, much of the world has transitioned to remote work. Where possible,...
By Jayne Miller
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Jul 1, 2020
Telia and Turkcell Part Company
Sweden’s Telia Company is one step closer to concentrating operations on its core Scandinavia...
By Pete Bell
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Jun 29, 2020
A Changing WAN, Benchmarked
"In previous iterations of the WAN, you might have seen one large MPLS cloud, but with core...
By Jayne Miller
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Jun 22, 2020
Everything You Wanted to Know About...
The first challenge in sourcing internet is deciding what you need. Finding a balance between...
By Jayne Miller
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May 28, 2020
Liberty vs Security: The Battle Over...
Would you be happy to have your fingerprints taken or get a facial scan to access phone...
By Pete Bell
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May 19, 2020
WAN Pricing Mythbusters: Do Tier 1...
My colleague Elizabeth Thorne and I have been working on busting–or confirming–WAN pricing...
By Greg Bryan
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Apr 21, 2020
WAN Pricing Mythbusters: Is MPLS Priced...
In case you missed my previous post, we here at TeleGeography love busting telecom myths. But...
By Greg Bryan
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Apr 7, 2020
WAN Pricing Mythbusters: Is Local...
We have a years-long tradition of Mythbusting here at TeleGeography. But it occurred to me...
By Greg Bryan
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Mar 30, 2020
Schrodinger's MPLS and Why Predicting...
Predicting the future is hard, especially when it comes to complex markets with disruptive...
By Greg Bryan
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Mar 23, 2020
On TEMs: You Can't Benchmark Your...
Let's talk about telecom expense management, better known as TEM. TEMs are designed to make...
By Greg Bryan
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Mar 2, 2020
Finns Lead the Way in Mobile Data Usage
Mobile data usage continues to boom worldwide. Here’s just one example. Following Super Bowl...
By Pete Bell
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Feb 11, 2020
About That PLCN Delay: Four...
There's been a lot of press about delayed approval for the Pacific Light Cable Network (PLCN)...
By Alan Mauldin
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Jan 23, 2020
Tracking the 4G Decade
December 2019 marked the tenth anniversary of the world’s first commercial LTE network launch....
By Pete Bell
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Jan 21, 2020
Telecom Training: Voice Jargon 101
It's a new year, which means we've refreshed the data in our International Voice Report. If...
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Dec 10, 2019
TeleGeography's Business Broadband...
The telecom space is loaded with acronyms. (Take this from the people who recently published a...
By Mike Bisaha
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Nov 22, 2019
Understanding Peering
Today we answer the burning question "what is peering and how does it work?" First, some...
By Jon Hjembo
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Oct 18, 2019
SD-WAN Management Costs, Wargamed
In house or outsourced? This is an age-old question for many firms. If you’re a big economics...
By Greg Bryan
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Oct 8, 2019
Is Your Planned Submarine Cable Doomed?
Anyone who follows the submarine cable sector knows that a lot of cables have been built in...
By Alan Mauldin
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Oct 3, 2019
Signals of Success: What to Look for in...
I'm a cynic and you can be one, too! This was the title of Tim Stronge's presentation during a...
By Jayne Miller
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Aug 28, 2019
WAN Wargaming: What Happens When You...
Welcome back to our blog series on “wargaming” WAN configurations to see how product choice...
By Greg Bryan
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Aug 6, 2019
Adding SD-WAN, Keeping MPLS
My wife has a brutal Northern Virginia commute; she drives about 80 miles a day. Recently, we...
By Greg Bryan
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Aug 1, 2019
Wargaming Your WAN: MPLS-Broadband...
Hello and welcome to the third entry in our series about wargaming WAN configuration...
By Greg Bryan
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Jul 22, 2019
Adopting Local Internet Breakouts in an...
Welcome to the second entry in this series on “wargaming” WAN scenarios to make sure you’re...
By Greg Bryan
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Jul 18, 2019
Why Should You Model WAN Costs? Our New...
I recently finished Seveneves by science fiction author and telecom enthusiast Neal...
By Greg Bryan
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Jul 9, 2019
Building and Managing Security...
The benefits of SD-WAN are apparent: more bandwidth, local breakouts, flexibility, etc. That...
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Jul 3, 2019
How Telefonica Hung Up on Central...
After months of speculation linking Spanish telecom giant Telefonica to a sale of its Central...
By Tom Leins
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Jun 25, 2019
Will Bandwidth Prices Eventually be the...
I call this one the price parity myth—the notion that one day bandwidth prices will be the...
By Alan Mauldin
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Jun 13, 2019
Are New Cables Avoiding Landing in the...
Is it true that new cables are avoiding landing in the UK because of the Brexit vote? I was...
By Alan Mauldin
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Jun 11, 2019
Do Human Senses Provide the Ultimate...
Our thirst for bandwidth must have a ceiling. It just must. In our first-ever user-submitted...
By Tim Stronge
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Jun 7, 2019
Will Fiber Pairs Become the New Coin of...
Have you heard that submarine cable fiber pairs will eventually become a standard unit of...
By Tim Stronge
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Jun 4, 2019
Are Current Industry Practices Enough...
The submarine cable industry’s current practices will sustain our future capacity...
By Tim Stronge
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May 30, 2019
Does 70% of the World’s Internet...
Have you heard the one about 70% of the world’s internet traffic flowing through northern...
By Tim Stronge
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Apr 8, 2019
Picking Your Provider: How Carrier...
My grandfather told stories about his days as a milkman in the 50s. To a kid growing up 30...
By Greg Bryan
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Apr 5, 2019
Are All These New Undersea Cables...
How many times have we heard that new undersea cables will bring consumers Internet speeds...
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Mar 26, 2019
How Nextel Disappeared from Latin...
Mexican telecom giant America Movil (AM) recently struck an agreement to acquire 100 percent...
By Tom Leins
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Mar 7, 2019
Our LatAm Telecom Map Explores the Sub...
Our regional maps have taken us to all corners of the globe. We've used them to explore...
By Lilian Lea
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Feb 27, 2019
You're Going to be Reading More About...
While independent SD-WAN vendors make their mark, traditional telecom service providers are...
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Jan 14, 2019
A Guide to 5G Spectrum Auctions in the...
As the telecom world prepares to enter the 5G era, our GlobalComms team has been tracking...
By Tom Leins
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Oct 31, 2018
The Spooky Future for Aging Cables
Halloween—a time when boundaries between the living and the dead are blurred. It's a season...
By Alan Mauldin
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Oct 4, 2018
Is a Mass Extinction of Submarine...
The rapid pace of demand growth is only going to require more international bandwidth in the...
By Alan Mauldin
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Sep 20, 2018
International Internet Capacity Growth...
It's true. International internet capacity growth defied long-term trends in 2018 and...
By Alan Mauldin
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Aug 9, 2018
The Ultimate Throwback Thursday:...
TeleGeography started producing submarine cable maps in 1999, but we had been mapping the...
By Jayne Miller
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Jul 10, 2018
Our New E-book Contains Nearly 50 Maps...
We’ve been making maps for a long time–since 1996, if you can believe it. Our maps don the...
By Jayne Miller
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Jun 12, 2018
Three Things Investors Should Know...
We get lots of questions about submarine cables. Where are they? Who owns them? What happens...
By Alan Mauldin
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Apr 10, 2018
Where Are the World's Cloud Data...
TeleGeography’s Cloud and WAN Infrastructure details the international wide area network (WAN)...
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Oct 30, 2017
Stranger Things: Why Netflix Isn’t...
Besides sharks eating undersea cables, one of the biggest myths that I’ve seen recently is...
By Alan Mauldin
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Oct 10, 2017
A Core Group of Specialists are Serving...
IP transit providers face a formidable mix of unrelenting price erosion, peering alternatives,...
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Oct 5, 2017
Optical Illusions: Content Providers...
This week TeleGeography VP of Research Tim Stronge made his way to San Jose to speak at NANOG...
By Jayne Miller
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Aug 16, 2017
Three Facts That Summarize the Current...
We've been tracking the market for long-haul networks and submarine cables since 1999. Our...
By Alan Mauldin
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Aug 10, 2017
The Jio Effect: How the Newcomer Made...
The second most populous nation in the world, India has the second largest mobile market...
By Pete Bell
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Jul 31, 2017
Three Colocation Pricing Facts Every...
We dug into the latest summary of key findings from our innovative Data Center Research...
By Jon Hjembo
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Jul 28, 2017
Shaping the Global Wholesale Bandwidth...
The global wholesale bandwidth market is influenced by many factors—some that change the face...
By Alan Mauldin
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Jul 25, 2017
We All Experience Latency. So Let's...
“The connectivity sort of festoons around the continent—it’s all structured to backhaul that...
By Jayne Miller
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Jul 14, 2017
A Timeline: How Europe's Altice Made...
The recent sale of shares by Altice USA has brought the company firmly into the spotlight,...
By Pete Bell
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Jul 10, 2017
The Speed of Light Never Changes—Except...
According to NASA, light travels at a constant, finite speed of 186,000 mi/sec. So the speed...
By Paul Brodsky
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Jun 15, 2017
Christian Koch on Local Networks,...
Christian Koch is passionate about the internet. He currently leads Core Network Planning and...
By Jayne Miller
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May 24, 2017
Growing Your WAN to Meet the Demands of...
As a WAN manager, how do you ensure your business has an available, reliable, and secure...
By Greg Bryan
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May 11, 2017
What is a VPN and Do I Need One?
VPN is a virtual private network that shares data through a public network like the internet....
By Jayne Miller
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May 3, 2017
Cable Breakage: When and How Cables Go...
Earlier this year we fielded some of the most frequently asked questions about submarine...
By Alan Mauldin
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Mar 27, 2017
Before FaceTime: When The Picturephone...
"From a booth set up in Grand Central Terminal, a person could talk to a friend in Chicago or...
By Jayne Miller
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Feb 28, 2017
What is the Internet of Things?
You may have seen the term Internet of Things thrown around on our site before. If you’ve...
By Jayne Miller
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Jan 27, 2017
In 1954, Popular Mechanics' Headlines...
Here's a good one from the archives. "America and Europe will soon be linked by the first...
By Jayne Miller
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Jan 26, 2017
Market Sees First Decline in...
With the TeleGeography Report hot off the press, it seems that this year's data contains more...
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Nov 28, 2016
Meet The Father of Fiber Optic...
Any good telecoms scholar has probably come across Charles K. Kao. But even if you aren’t...
By Jayne Miller
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Nov 21, 2016
Rise of the Machines: Narrowband...
The last few weeks have seen a flurry of announcements regarding trials and proposed...
By Pete Bell
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Nov 16, 2016
Understanding “The Last Mile”
One tiny data packet has traveled the world. It’s made its way from Sydney, Australia, all the...
By Jayne Miller
Blog
Nov 14, 2016
To Buy or Not to Buy: That is the...
A planned auction of spectrum in the 694MHz-790MHz (700MHz) band in Sweden has been postponed,...
By Pete Bell
Blog
Nov 8, 2016
The Trombone Effect, Explained
No. This effect has nothing to do with a big parade. The trombone effect, or just...
By Jayne Miller
Blog
Oct 25, 2016
The Dyn DDoS Attack, Explained
What happened during Friday’s massive internet outage on the East Coast? You know by now that...
By Jayne Miller
Blog
Oct 7, 2016
What is the Nyquist Theorem and Why...
It’s a good week to celebrate math and science. As the world celebrates a new batch of Nobel...
By Jayne Miller
Blog
Aug 24, 2016
4G Breaks Through That Great Chinese...
The popularity of 4G mobile services in China continues to take off and subscriber growth...
By Pete Bell
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