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Greg Bryan

Greg Bryan

Greg is Senior Manager, Enterprise Research at TeleGeography. He's spent the last decade and a half at TeleGeography developing many of our pricing products and reports about enterprise networks. He is a frequent speaker at conferences about corporate wide area networks and enterprise telecom services. He also hosts our podcast, TeleGeography Explains the Internet.

Greg Bryan

Features articles by Greg Bryan

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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?...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Jun 20, 2024

How Are Network Pros Integrating Cloud...

As cloud adoption becomes increasingly necessary for multinational enterprises, networks are...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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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:...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Mar 29, 2023

Real Talk: Are WAN Managers Adopting...

As cloud adoption becomes increasingly necessary for multinational enterprises, backend...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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....

Podcast Episode

Feb 21, 2023

Preparing the Next Generation of...

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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...

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Jan 24, 2023

SASE and Secure

This week on TeleGeography Explains the Internet we welcome Jeremiah Ginn, Software Defined...

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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....

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Dec 13, 2022

The Digital Divide Episode

James “Jim” Capuano has logged over 30 years in the telecommunications industry. And he's the...

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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...

Podcast Episode

Nov 29, 2022

Embracing Carrier Service Automation

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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