Feb 4, 2026
TeleGeography at PTC 2026
Download the presentation slides from TeleGeography's PTC Telecom Workshop.
Networks
Feb 3, 2026
TeleGeography at Capacity LATAM 2025
Senior Research Analyst Juan Velandia recently ventured to Capacity LATAM 2025 to highlight the state of...
Feb 3, 2026
Telecom Mythbusters - TeleGeography at SubOptic Conference 2025
The Telecom Mythbusters are back. Download the SubOptic conference presentation slides from...
Feb 3, 2026
TeleGeography at Platform Global 2025
Get Jon Hjembo's presentation slides from Platform Global 2025.
Podcast Episode
Feb 5, 2026
AI Adoption in Networking
Podcast Episode
Jan 29, 2026
The Impact of AI on the Network
Podcast Episode
Jan 13, 2026
Building Network Resiliency with Transparency and Smart Strategy
Podcast Episode
Dec 22, 2025
What to Know About the Cloud and Data Centers in 2026
Podcast Episode
Dec 17, 2025
What to Know About Transport Networks in 2026
Podcast Episode
Dec 11, 2025
How Great ISPs Nail Their Net Promoter Score Surveys
Blog
Dec 8, 2025
Prep for PTC With Our Experts
What will everyone be talking about at PTC'26, and what headlines do you need to brush up on to make the...
Blog
Nov 20, 2025
Securing Global Communications: An Examination of Foreign Adversary Threats to Subsea Cable...
Governments around the world are asking critical questions about national security and submarine cables,...
Blog
Nov 4, 2025
Key Telecom Trends in Brazil for 2026
If you're looking for a snapshot of the Latin American telecommunications landscape going into 2026,...
Blog
Oct 14, 2025
Starlink Expanding in Africa
Starlink, the satellite broadband provider operated by SpaceX, is growing its presence in Africa—and we...
Podcast Episode
Oct 9, 2025
Building Network Resiliency with Transparency and Smart Strategy
Blog
Oct 6, 2025
Creating an AI-Ready Network with Hub and Spoke WAN
We're breaking down how AI might impact enterprise networks in data-driven deep dives. Using...
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
Blog
Sep 23, 2025
Total International Bandwidth Now Sits at 1,835 Tbps
Global internet bandwidth increased by 23% in 2025, maintaining its consistent pace of steady growth....
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
Sep 8, 2025
IP Transit Pricing in 2025: More Competition, More Price Erosion
Providers’ shift to predominantly 100 Gbps internet backbones continues to reduce the average cost of...
Podcast Episode
Sep 4, 2025
The Economics of Submarine Cables
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...
Blog
Jul 24, 2025
You've Read About Submarine Cable Breaks. Now Read About the Repairs.
There is no shortage of headlines about high-profile cable breaks, particularly around the Baltic Sea...
Blog
Jul 18, 2025
The Regulatory and Geopolitical Environment of Cable Faults and Maintenance
Undersea cables are crucial to the global economy and national security. It's no surprise, then, that...
Blog
Jun 30, 2025
It’s Going to Take $3 Billion to Ensure Submarine Cable Repair Ships Can Keep the World Connected
A new report details what is needed to sustain current service levels and reduce repair delays for the...
Podcast Episode
Jun 5, 2025
An FCC Commissioner Explains Spectrum Allocation + Broadband Expansion
Blog
May 29, 2025
OceanIQ on Cable Faults, Climate Change, and Collaboration
Can you stop a cable break before it happens? We know how and why cable faults occur, but could damage...
Blog
May 27, 2025
The Key Trends Shaping Long-Haul Capacity Demand
What's shaping the trajectory of the global bandwidth market? To answer that question, we identified...
Blog
May 20, 2025
Customers Are Consuming More Bandwidth Than Ever: What That Means for Wholesale Pricing
New data from TeleGeography’s Transport Networks Research Service tells a story about changing bandwidth...
Blog
May 15, 2025
Building Tomorrow’s Internet: A 2025 Update on Cable Investment
A steady stream of investment has driven tremendous growth in subsea cable infrastructure to keep pace...
Blog
May 12, 2025
International Bandwidth Demand Surpasses 6.4 Pbps
According to new data from TeleGeography’s Transport Networks Research Service, global bandwidth demand...
Blog
May 8, 2025
The Submarine Cable Boom as Told by a Decade of TeleGeography Maps
There's been lots of conversation about the recent boom in submarine cable construction. This flurry of...
Blog
Apr 14, 2025
Fabulous, Unforgiving, Ever-Changing: Carl Roberts on His Career in Telecom and Tech
Carl Roberts is feeling energized. The senior ICT executive and advisor to a myriad of C-suite teams—who...
Blog
Apr 3, 2025
One Patent to Rule Them All? Demystifying China’s “Terrifying” Cable-Cutting Tech
My family has probably watched Lord of the Rings a dozen times or more1. We can (and sometimes will)...
Blog
Apr 2, 2025
Bandwidth Demand is Strong in Latin America, But It's Slowing
It's true. The localization of content, applications, and compute in local hubs like São Paulo, paired...
Podcast Episode
Mar 20, 2025
New on the Pod: Lightyear Considers the State of Connectivity
Blog
Mar 17, 2025
What's the Difference Between Lit Capacity and Potential Capacity?
When discussing submarine cable bandwidth, it’s crucial to distinguish between lit capacity and...
Blog
Mar 12, 2025
Data Centers 101: Technical Terms You Should Know
From cross connects to PUE, the data center industry is packed with technical jargon. Today, we’re...
Blog
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 really?...
Blog
Feb 27, 2025
How Many Submarine Cables Are There, Anyway?
Subsea cables power the internet under oceans all over the world. But how many cables are there? As...
Blog
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 must...
Blog
Feb 17, 2025
The State of the Network: Your 2025 Update on the Telecom Industry
Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to the 2025 State of the Network Report—our eighth edition. The...
Podcast Episode
Feb 6, 2025
The Podcast Goes Dark! (Dark Fiber, That is)
Blog
Feb 5, 2025
An Interconnectivity Expert's Take on Emerging Hubs, AI, and Network Resilience in 2025
Digital Infrastructure Industry Expert Maya Glick has two decades in the digital infrastructure and...
Blog
Feb 3, 2025
Is It Sabotage? Unraveling the Mystery of Undersea Cable Breaks
Lately, I've been thinking about the movie director Alfred Hitchcock. One of his first big hits was a...
Blog
Jan 22, 2025
The Impact of AI on Submarine Cable Networks
Submarine networks enable uninterrupted connectivity among geographically dispersed physical data...
Blog
Jan 6, 2025
The Fastest-Growing Cities for Data Center Connectivity (As of Q1 2025)
In November, we unveiled our new Market Connectivity Score (MCS) and dropped our first public rankings...
Podcast Episode
Dec 20, 2024
2024: A Telecom Year in Review
Blog
Dec 12, 2024
More Cables, More Redundancy, and Better Performance in Africa and the Middle East
Last month, I had the pleasure of speaking at Cairo ICT about colocation and connectivity trends. I...
Podcast Episode
Dec 5, 2024
Internet Sourcing, as Explained by an Internet Aggregator
Blog
Nov 21, 2024
What To Know About Submarine Cable Breaks
Earlier this week, operators of two communications cables—C-Lion 1 and BCS East-West Interlink—reported...
Blog
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 least—five...
Blog
Nov 12, 2024
Reach for the Stars: How Starlink Conquered Latin America
Starlink, the satellite broadband provider operated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX unit, is making rapid inroads...
Blog
Nov 1, 2024
The Fastest-Growing City for Data Center Connectivity
Many of the world’s top data center markets face issues such as rising energy costs, connectivity, and...
Blog
Oct 30, 2024
The 2025 Internet Provider Connectivity Rankings Are In
Our IP Networks Research Service—which recently underwent its big annual update—includes an analysis...
Blog
Oct 17, 2024
Chinese vs. U.S. Network Infrastructure in Asia, From Cloud to Cables
Competition between the United States and China continues to be a hot topic. Take The Economist, which...
Blog
Oct 16, 2024
Mapping African Network Geography at AfPIF 2024
Another year, another African Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF) keynote presentation for Senior...
Blog
Sep 26, 2024
Once a Builder of the Internet, Now an Adviser to Future Builders
Sylvie LaPerrière, one of TeleGeography's esteemed partners, is a known tech leader in the digital...
Blog
Sep 5, 2024
Hey, Who’s Using the Bandwidth?
To many people, the concepts of global network infrastructure and bandwidth markets are difficult to...
Blog
Aug 12, 2024
Business Broadband in Africa: Notes From My Summer as a Research Intern
As our summer internship session winds down, TeleGeography welcomes summer pricing intern Zar Adisuryo...
Blog
Jun 27, 2024
A (Refreshed) List of Content Providers' Submarine Cable Holdings
We've posted submarine cables owned by content providers for nearly a decade. When we first published...
Blog
Jun 11, 2024
Mike Constable Considers Infrastructure from Every Angle
Mike Constable has logged many hours in digital infrastructure. He's the mind behind Infra-Analytics Pte...
Blog
May 28, 2024
Why Does Diversity Matter for Submarine Cables?
Last week, I joined Ciena’s Brian Lavallée and Colt’s Laurent Taieb for a live webinar all about...
Blog
May 17, 2024
Dr. Steve Grubb Looks Forward to the Next Wave of Technology Drivers
Dr. Steve Grubb’s fascination with subsea cable technology began in the 1990s. Thirty years later, now...
Blog
May 10, 2024
Hervé Février Wants to Troubleshoot the Industry's Biggest Challenges
Dr. Hervé Février has an engineer's brain. (His colleagues have actually used the term "technical...
Blog
May 3, 2024
Philip Low Plans for AI Deployment and Decarbonization
Philip Low, Chairman of Platform Markets Group and Managing Director of Headwinds Consultants, has a lot...
Blog
Apr 4, 2024
All About Cloud Regions, Zones, and On-Ramps
Today, I'm breaking down three fundamental components of cloud networks. Cloud Regions. Regions are...
Blog
Apr 3, 2024
The Reality of Latin American Connectivity
A few weeks ago, TeleGeography headed back to São Paulo to participate in the Capacity Latin America...
Blog
Mar 15, 2024
Beyond the Red Sea Blues: West Africa Faces Fresh Cable Faults
As if three cable faults in the Red Sea weren’t enough of a headache, a series of West African cables...
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....
Blog
Mar 12, 2024
The Data Center Market Blazes a New Trail
When it comes to the nature of exploration, there are typically a number of underlying forces at play,...
Blog
Mar 5, 2024
What We Know (And Don't) About Multiple Cable Faults in the Red Sea
We recently wrote about how Houthi attacks in the Red Sea are causing headaches for the undersea cable...
Blog
Feb 23, 2024
Flashback Friday: Submarine Cable Repair in the 1980s
If you've read over our Submarine Cable Frequently Asked Questions, you know that cable faults are...
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?
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Blog
Jan 17, 2024
The Red Sea: A Key Subsea Cable Crossroads Under Siege
The Red Sea is a global hot spot at the moment due to repeated attacks by Yemeni Houthi rebels against...
Blog
Jan 10, 2024
How Is the Global Network Keeping Up With Demand?
By any measure, the global bandwidth market is thriving. International bandwidth demand has nearly...
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Blog
Dec 4, 2023
The Data Center Industry Faces New Obstacles
Recently, we’ve been closely monitoring the intensifying pressures of insatiable demand and supply...
Blog
Nov 30, 2023
Want To Retire in Your 20s? Become a Submarine Cable
Wouldn't it be great to be fully retired before your 30th birthday? Because they are engineered with a...
Podcast Episode
Nov 21, 2023
Head in the Cloud, Toes at the Edge
Blog
Nov 13, 2023
Beware of Deep Fake TeleGeography
The age of generative AI is certainly exciting. The ability to quickly access answers to complex...
Blog
Nov 9, 2023
How Satellite Operators and Telcos Are Teaming Up
The Latin American Satellite Congress held in Rio de Janeiro at the end of September provided a great...
Podcast Episode
Nov 7, 2023
Why 4G Is Still Relevant for Enterprise Connectivity
Podcast Episode
Oct 31, 2023
How Geography Influences Network Security
Blog
Oct 19, 2023
These Factors Will Influence the Development of the Global Internet
While artificial intelligence (AI) has been the most hyped demand driver in recent years, its impact on...
Blog
Oct 12, 2023
Tracking International Internet Traffic by Region
Three years after the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the internet seems to have achieved a state of normalcy....
Podcast Episode
Sep 19, 2023
The Total Transformation of Latin American Telecom
Blog
Aug 24, 2023
Eight Enterprise Products, Explained
The geographic coverage of carriers’ enterprise network services varies significantly. Not every carrier...
Blog
Aug 8, 2023
How the Cost of Network Ownership Can Change Over Time, Part 2
In case you missed it, we’re looking back at some previous hypothetical network scenarios to see how the...
Blog
Aug 3, 2023
How the Cost of Network Ownership Can Change Over Time
Enterprise customers have embraced hybrid networks that employ multiple underlay technologies combined...
Blog
Jul 20, 2023
Content Providers Are Still Hungry for Bandwidth
Earlier this week, I joined Ciena and Telstra for a live webinar highlighting Asia-Pacific market...
Blog
Jul 6, 2023
What’s the Difference Between FTTC, FTTN, and FTTP?
There are a lot of acronyms used in the telecommunications space, and it can be tough to keep them...
Blog
Jun 22, 2023
Satellite Mergers, Acquisitions, and Market Consolidation
Connectivity by satellite is not new, but expanding networks via low earth orbit (LEO) is a recent...
Blog
Jun 7, 2023
Latin American Pricing Takeaways From ITW
Last month, the TeleGeography team joined scores of ICT infrastructure professionals in National Harbor,...
Podcast Episode
Apr 18, 2023
What Happens to Cables When The Earth Moves Under Our Feet?
Podcast Episode
Mar 14, 2023
Confessions of a Telecom Investor
Blog
Mar 1, 2023
Disruptions in the Data Center Market
The global data center market is under an unprecedented squeeze as we move into 2023. On one hand, we...
Podcast Episode
Feb 21, 2023
Preparing the Next Generation of Infrastructure Professionals
Podcast Episode
Jan 31, 2023
Unpacking Telecom Predictions of the Past
Blog
Jan 10, 2023
Protected vs. Unprotected Circuits
You’ve always been told to hope for the best and prepare for the worst. Telecommunications professionals...
Blog
Jan 4, 2023
AI vs. TeleGeography: The Submarine Cable Showdown
The TG team is enjoying OpenAI's new ChatGPT—an artificial intelligence assistant trained to answer...
Podcast Episode
Jan 1, 2023
The WAN That Was: What We Learned From Enterprise Networking in 2022
Podcast Episode
Dec 27, 2022
Feeling '22: A Telecom Year in Review, Part 2
Podcast Episode
Dec 20, 2022
2022 in Telecom: A Year in Review
Blog
Dec 15, 2022
Latin American Market Trends: Brazil and Mexico
As telecom analysts, my TeleGeography colleagues and I have been busy attending conferences and...
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...
Blog
Oct 13, 2022
Cutting off Europe? A Look at How the Continent Connects to the World
With the recent damage to the Nord Stream gas pipeline, there's been lots of talk about the potential...
Blog
Oct 5, 2022
Price Erosion Remains the Universal Norm
Our latest Global Internet Geography Research Service refresh came with new pricing data. And if you'd...
Blog
Oct 3, 2022
Gloomy Economic Indicators… Scary Future for the Subsea Cable Industry?
Some pretty ominous headlines have been circulating around the world lately regarding the risk of a...
Podcast Episode
Sep 27, 2022
Simply Illuminating: Considering the Future of Optical Transport
Blog
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 how the...
Blog
Aug 11, 2022
A is for Autonomous System: The Telecom Glossary of Your Dreams
Let's face it—there are a lot of definitions to memorize in the telecom space. And if you've ever racked...
Blog
Aug 3, 2022
How LEO Satellite Connectivity Might Change Enterprise Networks
Endeavors like SpaceX’s Starlink and Amazon’s Project Kuiper have brought lots of attention to the...
Blog
Jul 20, 2022
Expectations for India’s Used International Bandwidth
Here's a headline you might have caught recently. Our research indicates that India’s used international...
Blog
Jun 30, 2022
New Cables Are Coming to Africa
While used international bandwidth has significantly increased in Africa in recent years, the region has...
Podcast Episode
Apr 5, 2022
How Global Events Impact the Internet
Podcast Episode
Mar 8, 2022
Data Centers and Digital Transformation
Blog
Mar 1, 2022
What to Know About Fiber’s Role in Ukraine’s Information War
With all eyes on Kyiv, videos like this one from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy have made a...
Blog
Jan 13, 2022
Greece Lightning: Greek Plans for Broadband Expansion
In December, Greece's OTE Group announced a major broadband investment plan. The group revealed that its...
Blog
Oct 27, 2021
What's the Difference Between Traffic and Bandwidth?
If you find yourself questioning the difference between traffic and bandwidth, here's an analogy that...
Blog
Oct 19, 2021
Who Really Cares About Latency?
Specifically, which applications and network operators have latency on their minds? Well, content...
Blog
Sep 7, 2021
Global Internet Traffic and Capacity Return to Regularly Scheduled Programming
Here's the headline: global internet bandwidth rose by 29% in 2021. You could consider this a return to...
Blog
Jul 30, 2021
The Blue and Raman Cable Systems Stand Out. Here's Why.
It's likely that you've read the news by now. Google is teaming up with Telecom Italia Sparkle and...
Podcast Episode
Jun 21, 2021
To the Edge and Back
Blog
May 20, 2021
Trans-Pacific Cable Chaos, Shifting Asian Hubs
It’s been a year since the U.S. government denied a cable license to the Pacific Light Cable Network...
Podcast Episode
May 17, 2021
Submarine Cables: It's Not Bitcoin
Blog
Apr 23, 2021
How Will Broadband Prices Fare Against a Satellite Boom?
Despite the expanding role satellite providers have in delivering connectivity, the vast majority of...
Blog
Oct 22, 2020
We Asked Kids What They Know About Submarine Cables
Be honest: do you actually know how many kilometers of submarine cables live under the ocean? Do you...
Blog
Feb 11, 2020
About That PLCN Delay: Four Trans-Pacific Cable Market Facts to Consider
There's been a lot of press about delayed approval for the Pacific Light Cable Network (PLCN) cable,...
Blog
Dec 10, 2019
TeleGeography's Business Broadband Acronym Cheatsheet
The telecom space is loaded with acronyms. (Take this from the people who recently published a post...
Blog
Dec 5, 2019
What is IP Transit?
Only a few of the world’s largest internet backbone providers get transit-free status, exchanging all of...
Blog
Nov 25, 2019
IP VPN, DIA, and EVPN, Explained
What's the Difference Between VPN, DIA, and EVPN? Looking to set up your network? Here are some key...
Blog
Nov 22, 2019
Understanding Peering
Today we answer the burning question "what is peering and how does it work?" First, some history. The...
Blog
Oct 29, 2019
A Brief History of ARPANET: The Early Internet
When was the internet born? On October 29, 1969, Professor Len Kleinrock and his team of graduate...
Blog
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 recent...
Blog
Oct 3, 2019
Signals of Success: What to Look for in Submarine Cable Press Releases
I'm a cynic and you can be one, too! This was the title of Tim Stronge's presentation during a recent...
Blog
Jul 9, 2019
Building and Managing Security Empowered SD-WAN
The benefits of SD-WAN are apparent: more bandwidth, local breakouts, flexibility, etc. That being said,...
Blog
Jul 1, 2019
Will New Satellites End the Dominance of Submarine Cables?
There’s been a lot in the press recently about new low-orbit satellites. Rumors abound about content...
Blog
Jun 25, 2019
Will Bandwidth Prices Eventually be the Same on All Routes?
I call this one the price parity myth—the notion that one day bandwidth prices will be the same on all...
Blog
Jun 20, 2019
Are Content Providers The Biggest Investors in New Submarine Cables?
We’ve written quite a bit about content provider’s investments in new cables. And we’ve seen headlines...
Blog
Jun 13, 2019
Are New Cables Avoiding Landing in the UK Because of Brexit?
Is it true that new cables are avoiding landing in the UK because of the Brexit vote? I was curious to...
Blog
Jun 11, 2019
Do Human Senses Provide the Ultimate Cap on Bandwidth?
Our thirst for bandwidth must have a ceiling. It just must. In our first-ever user-submitted myth, Chief...
Blog
Jun 7, 2019
Will Fiber Pairs Become the New Coin of the Realm?
Have you heard that submarine cable fiber pairs will eventually become a standard unit of purchase? I...
Blog
Jun 4, 2019
Are Current Industry Practices Enough to Accommodate Future Capacity Requirements?
The submarine cable industry’s current practices will sustain our future capacity requirements. We...
Blog
May 30, 2019
Does 70% of the World’s Internet Traffic Flow Through Virginia?
Have you heard the one about 70% of the world’s internet traffic flowing through northern Virginia? This...
Blog
Apr 5, 2019
Are All These New Undersea Cables Really Giving Us Faster Internet? Not Exactly.
How many times have we heard that new undersea cables will bring consumers Internet speeds faster than a...
Blog
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 for ghost...
Blog
Oct 4, 2018
Is a Mass Extinction of Submarine Cables Looming?
The rapid pace of demand growth is only going to require more international bandwidth in the coming...
Blog
Sep 20, 2018
International Internet Capacity Growth Just Accelerated for the First Time Since 2015
It's true. International internet capacity growth defied long-term trends in 2018 and accelerated for...
Blog
Aug 9, 2018
The Ultimate Throwback Thursday: TeleGeography's First Map
TeleGeography started producing submarine cable maps in 1999, but we had been mapping the world of...
Blog
Jul 30, 2018
Happy Anniversary to the AC-1: A Twenty Year Retrospective at Subsea EMEA
Way back in 1998, a press release went out from Global Crossing about the first segment of their...
Blog
Jul 10, 2018
Our New E-book Contains Nearly 50 Maps and 20 Years of Telecom History
We’ve been making maps for a long time–since 1996, if you can believe it. Our maps don the walls of...
Blog
Jun 12, 2018
Three Things Investors Should Know About the Submarine Cable Market
We get lots of questions about submarine cables. Where are they? Who owns them? What happens when they...
Blog
May 30, 2018
Content, Capacity, and the Great, Growing Demand for International Bandwidth
Global bandwidth demand continues to grow, spurring terrestrial and submarine cable network operators to...
Blog
May 2, 2018
Submarine Cable Redundancy, Explained
You might have heard about a recent cable cut near Mauritania. The short version? On March 30, damage to...
Blog
Apr 10, 2018
Where Are the World's Cloud Data Centers and Who is Using Them?
TeleGeography’s Cloud and WAN Infrastructure details the international wide area network (WAN) services,...
Blog
Oct 30, 2017
Stranger Things: Why Netflix Isn’t Behind New Submarine Cable Builds
Besides sharks eating undersea cables, one of the biggest myths that I’ve seen recently is Netflix being...
Blog
Oct 5, 2017
Optical Illusions: Content Providers and the Impending Transformation of International Transport
This week TeleGeography VP of Research Tim Stronge made his way to San Jose to speak at NANOG 71. His...
Blog
Aug 16, 2017
Three Facts That Summarize the Current Global Wholesale Bandwidth Market
We've been tracking the market for long-haul networks and submarine cables since 1999. Our data...
Blog
Jul 28, 2017
Shaping the Global Wholesale Bandwidth Market
The global wholesale bandwidth market is influenced by many factors—some that change the face of the...
Blog
Jul 25, 2017
We All Experience Latency. So Let's Understand What it is.
“The connectivity sort of festoons around the continent—it’s all structured to backhaul that traffic to...
Blog
Jul 10, 2017
The Speed of Light Never Changes—Except When it Does
According to NASA, light travels at a constant, finite speed of 186,000 mi/sec. So the speed of light...
Blog
Jun 15, 2017
Christian Koch on Local Networks, Peering, and Bringing a Network Operators Group to NYC
Christian Koch is passionate about the internet. He currently leads Core Network Planning and...
Blog
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. There's no...
Blog
May 9, 2017
How Do IP Addresses Work?
What’s an IP address and how does it work? Good question. Here's a quick guide to help you understand...
Blog
May 3, 2017
Cable Breakage: When and How Cables Go Down
Earlier this year we fielded some of the most frequently asked questions about submarine cables. How do...
Blog
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 found yourself...
Blog
Feb 10, 2017
Staring into the Luminiferous Ether (Or How Ethernet Got its Name)
Since Ethernet was invented in 1973, it has remained one of the most widely-used local area network...
Blog
Nov 28, 2016
Meet The Father of Fiber Optic Communication
Any good telecoms scholar has probably come across Charles K. Kao. But even if you aren’t familiar with...
Blog
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 way to...
Blog
Nov 8, 2016
The Trombone Effect, Explained
No. This effect has nothing to do with a big parade. The trombone effect, or just "tromboning," attempts...
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 sites like...
Blog
Aug 30, 2016
The Case for the Hybrid Network or SD-WAN
Hybrid WANs that employ a combination of technologies—such as MPLS and internet connectivity—have become...
Blog
Aug 23, 2016
What's the Difference Between the World Wide Web and the Internet?
Happy Internaut Day! On August 23, 1991, users accessed the World Wide Web for the first time, paving...
Blog
Jul 14, 2016
Mythbusters: Revenge of the Cable Myths, Part III
In Part II of TeleGeography's Mythbusters presentation at SubOptic 2016, Alan Mauldin busted five myths...
Blog
Jul 7, 2016
Mythbusters: Revenge of the Cable Myths, Part II
In the first part of TeleGeography’s Mythbusters presentation at SubOptic 2016, Tim Stronge busted myths...
Blog
Jun 30, 2016
Mythbusters: Revenge of the Cable Myths, Part I
TeleGeography’s Tim Stronge and Alan Mauldin returned to the triennial SubOptic conference this year to...
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