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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

Podcast Episode

Feb 5, 2026

AI Adoption in Networking

Podcast Episode

Jan 29, 2026

The Impact of AI on the Network

Podcast Episode

Jan 22, 2026

All About AI Ops

Podcast Episode

Jan 13, 2026

Building Network Resiliency with Transparency and Smart Strategy

Podcast Episode

Dec 11, 2025

How Great ISPs Nail Their Net Promoter Score Surveys

Podcast Episode

Oct 9, 2025

Building Network Resiliency with Transparency and Smart Strategy

Podcast Episode

Oct 2, 2025

Protecting Internet Infrastructure with Submarine Cable Sensing

Podcast Episode

Sep 25, 2025

Submarine Cable Routing on an Increasingly Crowded Seafloor

Podcast Episode

Sep 18, 2025

Current State and Forecasts for Submarine Cable Maintenance

Podcast Episode

Sep 11, 2025

Cybersecurity Challenges in Submarine Cable Systems

Blog

Aug 30, 2025

Bandwidth and Price for an AI-Ready, Internet-First Network

How AI will impact enterprise networks is a huge topic that we're tackling in a multi-part series. In...

Blog

Aug 25, 2025

How to Make Your Hybrid Network AI-Ready Without Increasing Costs

How will AI impact enterprise networks? That's the huge topic I'm tackling with data from...

Blog

Aug 13, 2025

Predicting How AI Will Impact Enterprise Networks

Predicting the future is hard. As an analyst, that is exactly what people hope I can do. Of course, no...

Podcast Episode

Jun 5, 2025

An FCC Commissioner Explains Spectrum Allocation + Broadband Expansion

Podcast Episode

Apr 17, 2025

Automate or Bust: What's the Real Benefit of Network Automation?

Podcast Episode

Mar 20, 2025

New on the Pod: Lightyear Considers the State of Connectivity

Podcast Episode

Feb 10, 2025

Data Assurance in the Age of AI

Podcast Episode

Dec 16, 2024

When Networking and Security Collide

Podcast Episode

Dec 5, 2024

Internet Sourcing, as Explained by an Internet Aggregator

Podcast Episode

Nov 21, 2024

A Guide to Calculating the World's Next Interconnectivity Hub (According to You)

Podcast Episode

Nov 15, 2024

Who Orchestrates the Orchestrators?

Podcast Episode

Oct 31, 2024

What Network Managers Should Know About AI and Machine Learning

Podcast Episode

Oct 24, 2024

What to Know About Direct-to-Device Satellite Communications

Podcast Episode

Oct 17, 2024

The History of U.S. Telecom Policy (in Under 60 Minutes)

Blog

Jun 20, 2024

How Are Network Pros Integrating Cloud and Networking-as-a-Service?

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

Blog

Jun 17, 2024

We Asked WAN Managers About SD-WAN + SASE

With the release of our new WAN Manager Survey intel, it was only a matter of time before we got to the...

Blog

Jun 13, 2024

Pssst. What Does Your Network Configuration Look Like?

Enterprises have embraced hybrid networks. The expansion of SD-WAN, the benefits of having local...

Blog

Jun 6, 2024

Seven Findings From Our Latest WAN Manager Survey

With a new normal of hybrid work established, trends in network services are once again changing. But...

Blog

Apr 25, 2024

Are You Paying the Right Price for Global Connectivity?

The enterprise wide area network (WAN) market is in a state of flux, forcing multinational corporations...

Blog

Mar 28, 2024

Let’s Get Physical: Where Do Carriers Offer Network Services to Enterprises?

The geographic coverage of carriers’ enterprise network services varies significantly. Not every carrier...

Blog

Mar 14, 2024

Explaining the Internet Through the Lifecycle of a YouTube Video

Last week, we wrapped up a five-part podcast special that literally explains how the internet works....

Podcast Episode

Mar 7, 2024

What is a WAN?

Podcast Episode

Feb 29, 2024

What is the Cloud?

Podcast Episode

Feb 22, 2024

What Are Data Centers?

Podcast Episode

Feb 15, 2024

What is a Transport Network?

Podcast Episode

Feb 8, 2024

What is the Internet?

Podcast Episode

Jan 23, 2024

Wi-Fi 6 Afraid of 7?

Podcast Episode

Nov 21, 2023

Head in the Cloud, Toes at the Edge

Podcast Episode

Nov 7, 2023

Why 4G Is Still Relevant for Enterprise Connectivity

Podcast Episode

Oct 31, 2023

How Geography Influences Network Security

Podcast Episode

Oct 17, 2023

How Do Targeted Ads Work? Is My Phone Listening In?

Podcast Episode

Oct 10, 2023

Born in the (US)NUA: LIVE from Ohio!

Podcast Episode

Oct 3, 2023

It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Super Cloud

Podcast Episode

Sep 26, 2023

How NaaS Relates to SDN and Automation

Podcast Episode

Sep 19, 2023

The Total Transformation of Latin American Telecom

Blog

Sep 14, 2023

New Network Security Analysis Tracks SASE Pricing Strategies

We recently surveyed a mixture of carriers and MSPs, SD-WAN vendors, and pure-play security vendors...

Podcast Episode

Sep 12, 2023

Why Telecom Service Providers Need To Automate

Podcast Episode

Sep 5, 2023

Are These WAN Sourcing Trends Real or Just Hype?

Blog

Aug 31, 2023

How Common SASE Products Are Being Offered

Our Cloud and WAN Research Service just unveiled a fourth WAN analysis module, and it's all about...

Podcast Episode

Apr 25, 2023

Surveying the WANscape

Podcast Episode

Apr 18, 2023

What Happens to Cables When The Earth Moves Under Our Feet?

Podcast Episode

Apr 11, 2023

Staying a Step Ahead of Mobile Fraudsters

Podcast Episode

Apr 4, 2023

AI Meets The Corporate Network

Blog

Mar 29, 2023

Real Talk: Are WAN Managers Adopting NaaS?

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

Podcast Episode

Mar 28, 2023

What Makes a WAN Truly Secure?

Blog

Mar 15, 2023

WAN Configurations Are Shifting

Network underlays have been in transition as more enterprises install SD-WAN services and attempt to...

Podcast Episode

Mar 14, 2023

Confessions of a Telecom Investor

Podcast Episode

Mar 9, 2023

Behind the Seas: Making Our Famous Submarine Cable Map

Podcast Episode

Feb 21, 2023

Preparing the Next Generation of Infrastructure Professionals

Podcast Episode

Feb 7, 2023

The Death of Voice Has Been Greatly Exaggerated

Podcast Episode

Jan 31, 2023

Unpacking Telecom Predictions of the Past

Podcast Episode

Jan 24, 2023

SASE and Secure

Podcast Episode

Jan 17, 2023

A Brief History of Networking as a Service

Blog

Jan 16, 2023

Understand Secure Access Service Edge

If you've been involved in the WAN/IT infrastructure space for the past few years, you've probably heard...

Podcast Episode

Dec 13, 2022

The Digital Divide Episode

Podcast Episode

Dec 6, 2022

Orchestrating the Service Lifecycle

Podcast Episode

Nov 29, 2022

Embracing Carrier Service Automation

Blog

Nov 23, 2022

Key Findings From Our Latest WAN Market Size Report

After tracking the WAN market size in 2020 and 2021 with our WAN Market Size Report, we began to think...

Podcast Episode

Nov 22, 2022

Unraveling the Fabric Providers of Reality

Blog

Nov 21, 2022

Hypothetical Network Series #3: BYOB Internet WAN

So far, we’ve looked at integrating DIA and business broadband into a hybrid WAN. But there are a host...

Podcast Episode

Nov 15, 2022

Unpacking Network Observability

Blog

Nov 7, 2022

Hypothetical Network Series #1: High Bandwidth MPLS

Back in 2019, we built a hypothetical network to illustrate how different network configurations might...

Blog

Oct 18, 2022

What Role Do Satellites Play in Global Communication?

It's kind of an inside joke among telecom insiders. We've all had that conversation with a friend or...

Podcast Episode

Oct 4, 2022

Data Centers and the Opportunity at the Edge

Blog

Apr 21, 2022

Considering Cloud Connectivity Providers

If you’re an enterprise network manager in need of a dedicated cloud connection service, you’re in luck;...

Blog

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 global...

Blog

Dec 27, 2021

What Problem is the Middle Mile Trying to Solve?

As global enterprises become more reliant on cloud—and start to break away or reduce their traditional...

Blog

Nov 22, 2021

WAN Pricing Over Time

We've written before about how prices vary by geography. It almost goes without saying that they also...

Blog

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, many...

Blog

Nov 19, 2020

Three Facts From Our New WAN Market Size Report

If you've perused our research catalog lately, you'll know that we have a new WAN Market Size Report. In...

Blog

Oct 13, 2020

New WAN Market Size Report Shows a Global WAN Market Worth $75.9 Billion

There’s no question that the enterprise wide area network (WAN) market is in a state of flux. We’ve seen...

Blog

May 19, 2020

WAN Pricing Mythbusters: Do Tier 1 Carriers Charge More for DIA?

My colleague Elizabeth Thorne and I have been working on busting–or confirming–WAN pricing myths that...

Blog

Apr 21, 2020

WAN Pricing Mythbusters: Is MPLS Priced Like DIA?

In case you missed my previous post, we here at TeleGeography love busting telecom myths. But we haven’t...

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Apr 7, 2020

WAN Pricing Mythbusters: Is Local Access 50% or More of the WAN?

We have a years-long tradition of Mythbusting here at TeleGeography. But it occurred to me that we’ve...

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Mar 30, 2020

Schrodinger's MPLS and Why Predicting the Future is Hard

Predicting the future is hard, especially when it comes to complex markets with disruptive variables...

Blog

Mar 23, 2020

On TEMs: You Can't Benchmark Your Network if You Don't Understand What You're Buying

Let's talk about telecom expense management, better known as TEM. TEMs are designed to make untangling...

Blog

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 nerd like...

Blog

Aug 28, 2019

WAN Wargaming: What Happens When You Leave MPLS Behind?

Welcome back to our blog series on “wargaming” WAN configurations to see how product choice can affect...

Blog

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 decided it...

Blog

Aug 1, 2019

Wargaming Your WAN: MPLS-Broadband Edition

Hello and welcome to the third entry in our series about wargaming WAN configuration scenarios. We’ve...

Blog

Jul 22, 2019

Adopting Local Internet Breakouts in an MPLS-DIA Hybrid WAN

Welcome to the second entry in this series on “wargaming” WAN scenarios to make sure you’re getting the...

Blog

Jul 18, 2019

Why Should You Model WAN Costs? Our New Blog Series Will Show You.

I recently finished Seveneves by science fiction author and telecom enthusiast Neal Stephenson. This...

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Apr 8, 2019

Picking Your Provider: How Carrier Selection Affects Your WAN Costs

My grandfather told stories about his days as a milkman in the 50s. To a kid growing up 30 years later,...

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May 24, 2017

Growing Your WAN to Meet the Demands of the Modern Workplace

As a WAN manager, how do you ensure your business has an available, reliable, and secure network when...

Blog

May 2, 2016

The Network That Ensures Your Inflight Meals are On Time

Looking back on a couple of intensive days at the New York WAN Summit, one of the highlights for me was...

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