Jan 21, 2026
TeleGeography at PTC 2026
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Jan 21, 2026
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Oct 22, 2025
Download TeleGeography Research Analyst Stacey Parker's presentation slides about global connectivity...
Sep 16, 2025
The Telecom Mythbusters are back. Download the SubOptic conference presentation slides from...
Jan 2, 2026
Download Paul Brodsky's presentation slides about global and Middle Eastern connectivity.
Jan 20, 2026
Senior Research Analyst Juan Velandia recently ventured to Capacity LATAM 2025 to highlight the state of...
May 2, 2025
TeleGeography's State of the Network is a free annual report highlighting what you need to know about...
Jan 30, 2026
Networks | TeleGeography’s resource center is your hub for telecom intelligence and analysis from the...
Jan 13, 2026
Network resilience is a critical concern for every business, regardless of size or industry....
By Greg Bryan
Dec 8, 2025
What will everyone be talking about at PTC'26, and what headlines do you need to brush up on...
By Jayne Miller
Nov 20, 2025
Governments around the world are asking critical questions about national security and...
By Tim Stronge
Nov 4, 2025
If you're looking for a snapshot of the Latin American telecommunications landscape going into...
By Peter Wood
Oct 14, 2025
Starlink, the satellite broadband provider operated by SpaceX, is growing its presence in...
By Pete Bell
Oct 6, 2025
We're breaking down how AI might impact enterprise networks in data-driven deep dives. Using...
Sep 23, 2025
Global internet bandwidth increased by 23% in 2025, maintaining its consistent pace of steady...
By Paul Brodsky
Sep 8, 2025
Providers’ shift to predominantly 100 Gbps internet backbones continues to reduce the average...
Aug 30, 2025
How AI will impact enterprise networks is a huge topic that we're tackling in a multi-part...
By Greg Bryan
Aug 25, 2025
How will AI impact enterprise networks? That's the huge topic I'm tackling with data from...
By Greg Bryan
Aug 13, 2025
Predicting the future is hard. As an analyst, that is exactly what people hope I can do. Of...
By Greg Bryan
Jul 24, 2025
There is no shortage of headlines about high-profile cable breaks, particularly around the...
By Alan Mauldin
Jul 18, 2025
Undersea cables are crucial to the global economy and national security. It's no surprise,...
Jun 30, 2025
A new report details what is needed to sustain current service levels and reduce repair delays...
May 20, 2025
New data from TeleGeography’s Transport Networks Research Service tells a story about changing...
May 15, 2025
A steady stream of investment has driven tremendous growth in subsea cable infrastructure to...
By Paul Brodsky
May 12, 2025
According to new data from TeleGeography’s Transport Networks Research Service, global...
By Alan Mauldin
May 8, 2025
There's been lots of conversation about the recent boom in submarine cable construction. This...
By Jayne Miller
Apr 14, 2025
Carl Roberts is feeling energized. The senior ICT executive and advisor to a myriad of C-suite...
By Jayne Miller
Apr 3, 2025
My family has probably watched Lord of the Rings a dozen times or more1. We can (and sometimes...
By Tim Stronge
Apr 2, 2025
It's true. The localization of content, applications, and compute in local hubs like São...
Mar 20, 2025
We're pumped to have Dennis Thankachan, Co-Founder and CEO of Lightyear, back on TeleGeography...
By Greg Bryan
Mar 17, 2025
When discussing submarine cable bandwidth, it’s crucial to distinguish between lit capacity...
Mar 12, 2025
From cross connects to PUE, the data center industry is packed with technical jargon. Today,...
By Jon Hjembo
Mar 4, 2025
Latency is a term that’s frequently cited when discussing long-haul networks. But what is it...
By Paul Brodsky
Feb 19, 2025
What makes a city a hub? And what makes a hub healthy? Before we answer these questions, we...
By Jon Hjembo
Feb 17, 2025
Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to the 2025 State of the Network Report—our eighth edition....
Feb 6, 2025
We haven't been getting enough fiber here at TeleGeography Explains the Internet, but we're...
By Jayne Miller
Feb 5, 2025
Digital Infrastructure Industry Expert Maya Glick has two decades in the digital...
By Jayne Miller
Feb 3, 2025
Lately, I've been thinking about the movie director Alfred Hitchcock. One of his first big...
By Tim Stronge
Jan 22, 2025
Submarine networks enable uninterrupted connectivity among geographically dispersed physical...
Dec 20, 2024
Happy holidays, TeleGeography Explains the Internet listeners. We hope you're savoring the...
By Jayne Miller
Dec 12, 2024
Last month, I had the pleasure of speaking at Cairo ICT about colocation and connectivity...
Dec 5, 2024
For TeleGeography Explains the Internet to truly explain the internet, sometimes we have to...
By Greg Bryan
Nov 21, 2024
Earlier this week, operators of two communications cables—C-Lion 1 and BCS East-West...
Nov 13, 2024
The data center market is in the midst of an unprecedented shift that started—publicly at...
By Jon Hjembo
Nov 12, 2024
Starlink, the satellite broadband provider operated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX unit, is making...
By Tom Leins
Nov 1, 2024
Many of the world’s top data center markets face issues such as rising energy costs,...
By Jon Hjembo
Oct 30, 2024
Our IP Networks Research Service—which recently underwent its big annual update—includes an...
By Paul Brodsky
Oct 17, 2024
Competition between the United States and China continues to be a hot topic. Take The...
Oct 16, 2024
Another year, another African Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF) keynote presentation...
Sep 26, 2024
Sylvie LaPerrière, one of TeleGeography's esteemed partners, is a known tech leader in the...
By Rob Schult
Sep 5, 2024
To many people, the concepts of global network infrastructure and bandwidth markets are...
By Paul Brodsky
Aug 12, 2024
As our summer internship session winds down, TeleGeography welcomes summer pricing intern Zar...
Jun 27, 2024
We've posted submarine cables owned by content providers for nearly a decade. When we first...
By Alan Mauldin
Jun 11, 2024
Mike Constable has logged many hours in digital infrastructure. He's the mind behind...
By Jayne Miller
May 28, 2024
Last week, I joined Ciena’s Brian Lavallée and Colt’s Laurent Taieb for a live webinar all...
By Alan Mauldin
May 17, 2024
Dr. Steve Grubb’s fascination with subsea cable technology began in the 1990s. Thirty years...
By Jayne Miller
May 10, 2024
Dr. Hervé Février has an engineer's brain. (His colleagues have actually used the term...
By Jayne Miller
May 3, 2024
Philip Low, Chairman of Platform Markets Group and Managing Director of Headwinds Consultants,...
By Jayne Miller
Apr 4, 2024
Today, I'm breaking down three fundamental components of cloud networks. Cloud Regions....
Apr 3, 2024
A few weeks ago, TeleGeography headed back to São Paulo to participate in the Capacity Latin...
By Peter Wood
Mar 15, 2024
As if three cable faults in the Red Sea weren’t enough of a headache, a series of West African...
By Alan Mauldin
Mar 5, 2024
We recently wrote about how Houthi attacks in the Red Sea are causing headaches for the...
By Tim Stronge
Feb 23, 2024
If you've read over our Submarine Cable Frequently Asked Questions, you know that cable faults...
Feb 22, 2024
We're back with episode three of our five-part podcast special, which explains the nuts and...
By Greg Bryan
Feb 15, 2024
Welcome back to our five-part podcast special that literally explains how the internet you...
By Greg Bryan
Feb 8, 2024
If you've caught TeleGeography's podcast, you'll know that we endeavor to explain the business...
By Greg Bryan
Jan 23, 2024
On TeleGeography Explains the Internet, we often focus on the long-haul, zeroing in on the...
By Greg Bryan
Jan 17, 2024
The Red Sea is a global hot spot at the moment due to repeated attacks by Yemeni Houthi rebels...
By Alan Mauldin
Jan 10, 2024
By any measure, the global bandwidth market is thriving. International bandwidth demand has...
By Jon Hjembo
Dec 4, 2023
Recently, we’ve been closely monitoring the intensifying pressures of insatiable demand and...
By Jon Hjembo
Nov 30, 2023
Wouldn't it be great to be fully retired before your 30th birthday? Because they are...
By Alan Mauldin
Nov 21, 2023
I'm back with a new episode of TeleGeography Explains the Internet. In the hot seat this time:...
By Greg Bryan
Nov 13, 2023
The age of generative AI is certainly exciting. The ability to quickly access answers to...
By Alan Mauldin
Oct 31, 2023
Today’s TeleGeography Explains the Internet guest comes to the security world with a deep...
By Greg Bryan
Oct 19, 2023
While artificial intelligence (AI) has been the most hyped demand driver in recent years, its...
By Paul Brodsky
Oct 12, 2023
Three years after the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the internet seems to have achieved a state of...
By Paul Brodsky
Aug 24, 2023
The geographic coverage of carriers’ enterprise network services varies significantly. Not...
By Paul Brodsky
Aug 8, 2023
In case you missed it, we’re looking back at some previous hypothetical network scenarios to...
By Rob Schult
Aug 3, 2023
Enterprise customers have embraced hybrid networks that employ multiple underlay technologies...
Jul 20, 2023
Earlier this week, I joined Ciena and Telstra for a live webinar highlighting Asia-Pacific...
By Marvin Tan
Jul 6, 2023
There are a lot of acronyms used in the telecommunications space, and it can be tough to keep...
Jun 22, 2023
Connectivity by satellite is not new, but expanding networks via low earth orbit (LEO) is a...
By Peter Wood
Jun 12, 2023
In 2019, my colleague Alan Mauldin and I busted the myth that the submarine cable industry’s...
By Tim Stronge
Jun 7, 2023
Last month, the TeleGeography team joined scores of ICT infrastructure professionals in...
By Peter Wood
May 18, 2023
At SubOptic 2023, my colleague Tim Stronge and I brought back the Telecom Mythbusters to test...
By Alan Mauldin
May 4, 2023
“Submarine cables account for over 99% of intercontinental data traffic” is regularly quoted...
By Alan Mauldin
Apr 20, 2023
“The lifespan of a submarine cable is 25 years.” We’ve all heard that, right? Is this...
By Alan Mauldin
Apr 18, 2023
How are submarine cables impacted by tectonic shifts beneath the seafloor? This week's guests...
By Greg Bryan
Apr 6, 2023
The press regularly reports that $10 trillion of financial transactions flow over submarine...
By Tim Stronge
Mar 14, 2023
On TeleGeography Explains the Internet, I typically interview guests who work in the telecom...
By Greg Bryan
Jan 10, 2023
You’ve always been told to hope for the best and prepare for the worst. Telecommunications...
By Jayne Miller
Jan 4, 2023
The TG team is enjoying OpenAI's new ChatGPT—an artificial intelligence assistant trained to...
Dec 27, 2022
We're looking back at all things telecom in 2022. And we're doing it the best way we know how:...
By Jayne Miller
Dec 20, 2022
Another December, another opportunity to reflect on the year that was. And that's exactly what...
By Jayne Miller
Dec 15, 2022
As telecom analysts, my TeleGeography colleagues and I have been busy attending conferences...
By Peter Wood
Oct 5, 2022
Our latest Global Internet Geography Research Service refresh came with new pricing data. And...
Oct 3, 2022
Some pretty ominous headlines have been circulating around the world lately regarding the risk...
By Alan Mauldin
Sep 27, 2022
Welcome back, podcast listeners. We're thrilled to dive into a new season of telecom tech...
By Jayne Miller
Aug 24, 2022
If you've ever made a “telephone” with a pair of tin cans and a string, you have an idea of...
Aug 11, 2022
Let's face it—there are a lot of definitions to memorize in the telecom space. And if you've...
Aug 3, 2022
Endeavors like SpaceX’s Starlink and Amazon’s Project Kuiper have brought lots of attention to...
By Peter Wood
Jul 20, 2022
Here's a headline you might have caught recently. Our research indicates that India’s used...
Jun 30, 2022
While used international bandwidth has significantly increased in Africa in recent years, the...
Apr 5, 2022
We've discussed the ways in which the WAN is moving away from private networks and MPLS in...
By Jayne Miller
Mar 8, 2022
When it comes to the cloud and digital transformation of the enterprise, it's always useful to...
By Jayne Miller
Jan 13, 2022
In December, Greece's OTE Group announced a major broadband investment plan. The group...
By Pete Bell
Oct 27, 2021
If you find yourself questioning the difference between traffic and bandwidth, here's an...
By Paul Brodsky
Oct 19, 2021
Specifically, which applications and network operators have latency on their minds? Well,...
Sep 7, 2021
Here's the headline: global internet bandwidth rose by 29% in 2021. You could consider this a...
By Alan Mauldin
Jul 30, 2021
It's likely that you've read the news by now. Google is teaming up with Telecom Italia Sparkle...
By Paul Brodsky
Jun 21, 2021
Today we're living on the edge! Whether we're talking security and SASE, NaaS, or cloud...
By Jayne Miller
May 20, 2021
It’s been a year since the U.S. government denied a cable license to the Pacific Light Cable...
May 17, 2021
We often say that we'll be taking a "deep dive" into an issue at the beginning of our...
By Jayne Miller
Apr 23, 2021
Despite the expanding role satellite providers have in delivering connectivity, the vast...
By Peter Wood
Feb 11, 2020
There's been a lot of press about delayed approval for the Pacific Light Cable Network (PLCN)...
By Alan Mauldin
Dec 10, 2019
The telecom space is loaded with acronyms. (Take this from the people who recently published a...
By Mike Bisaha
Dec 5, 2019
Only a few of the world’s largest internet backbone providers get transit-free status,...
Nov 25, 2019
What's the Difference Between VPN, DIA, and EVPN? Looking to set up your network? Here are...
Nov 22, 2019
Today we answer the burning question "what is peering and how does it work?" First, some...
By Jon Hjembo
Oct 29, 2019
When was the internet born? On October 29, 1969, Professor Len Kleinrock and his team of...
By Jayne Miller
Oct 8, 2019
Anyone who follows the submarine cable sector knows that a lot of cables have been built in...
By Alan Mauldin
Oct 3, 2019
I'm a cynic and you can be one, too! This was the title of Tim Stronge's presentation during a...
By Jayne Miller
Jul 9, 2019
The benefits of SD-WAN are apparent: more bandwidth, local breakouts, flexibility, etc. That...
Jul 1, 2019
There’s been a lot in the press recently about new low-orbit satellites. Rumors abound about...
By Alan Mauldin
Jun 25, 2019
I call this one the price parity myth—the notion that one day bandwidth prices will be the...
By Alan Mauldin
Jun 20, 2019
We’ve written quite a bit about content provider’s investments in new cables. And we’ve seen...
By Alan Mauldin
Jun 13, 2019
Is it true that new cables are avoiding landing in the UK because of the Brexit vote? I was...
By Alan Mauldin
Jun 11, 2019
Our thirst for bandwidth must have a ceiling. It just must. In our first-ever user-submitted...
By Tim Stronge
Jun 7, 2019
Have you heard that submarine cable fiber pairs will eventually become a standard unit of...
By Tim Stronge
Jun 4, 2019
The submarine cable industry’s current practices will sustain our future capacity...
By Tim Stronge
May 30, 2019
Have you heard the one about 70% of the world’s internet traffic flowing through northern...
By Tim Stronge
Apr 5, 2019
How many times have we heard that new undersea cables will bring consumers Internet speeds...
Oct 31, 2018
Halloween—a time when boundaries between the living and the dead are blurred. It's a season...
By Alan Mauldin
Oct 4, 2018
The rapid pace of demand growth is only going to require more international bandwidth in the...
By Alan Mauldin
Sep 20, 2018
It's true. International internet capacity growth defied long-term trends in 2018 and...
By Alan Mauldin
Aug 9, 2018
TeleGeography started producing submarine cable maps in 1999, but we had been mapping the...
By Jayne Miller
Jul 10, 2018
We’ve been making maps for a long time–since 1996, if you can believe it. Our maps don the...
By Jayne Miller
Jun 12, 2018
We get lots of questions about submarine cables. Where are they? Who owns them? What happens...
By Alan Mauldin
May 30, 2018
Global bandwidth demand continues to grow, spurring terrestrial and submarine cable network...
By Alan Mauldin
Apr 10, 2018
TeleGeography’s Cloud and WAN Infrastructure details the international wide area network (WAN)...
Oct 30, 2017
Besides sharks eating undersea cables, one of the biggest myths that I’ve seen recently is...
By Alan Mauldin
Oct 5, 2017
This week TeleGeography VP of Research Tim Stronge made his way to San Jose to speak at NANOG...
By Jayne Miller
Aug 16, 2017
We've been tracking the market for long-haul networks and submarine cables since 1999. Our...
By Alan Mauldin
Jul 28, 2017
The global wholesale bandwidth market is influenced by many factors—some that change the face...
By Alan Mauldin
Jul 25, 2017
“The connectivity sort of festoons around the continent—it’s all structured to backhaul that...
By Jayne Miller
Jul 10, 2017
According to NASA, light travels at a constant, finite speed of 186,000 mi/sec. So the speed...
By Paul Brodsky
Jun 15, 2017
Christian Koch is passionate about the internet. He currently leads Core Network Planning and...
By Jayne Miller
May 11, 2017
VPN is a virtual private network that shares data through a public network like the internet....
By Jayne Miller
May 3, 2017
Earlier this year we fielded some of the most frequently asked questions about submarine...
By Alan Mauldin
Feb 28, 2017
You may have seen the term Internet of Things thrown around on our site before. If you’ve...
By Jayne Miller
Nov 28, 2016
Any good telecoms scholar has probably come across Charles K. Kao. But even if you aren’t...
By Jayne Miller
Nov 16, 2016
One tiny data packet has traveled the world. It’s made its way from Sydney, Australia, all the...
By Jayne Miller
Nov 8, 2016
No. This effect has nothing to do with a big parade. The trombone effect, or just...
By Jayne Miller
Oct 25, 2016
What happened during Friday’s massive internet outage on the East Coast? You know by now that...
By Jayne Miller
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