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Dec 18, 2025

What to Know About Pricing and...

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Dec 17, 2025

What to Know About Transport Networks...

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Dec 11, 2025

How Great ISPs Nail Their Net Promoter...

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Oct 9, 2025

Building Network Resiliency with...

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Jun 5, 2025

An FCC Commissioner Explains Spectrum...

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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...

Blog

Feb 6, 2025

The Podcast Goes Dark! (Dark Fiber,...

We haven't been getting enough fiber here at TeleGeography Explains the Internet, but we're...

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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...

Blog

Dec 20, 2024

2024: A Telecom Year in Review

Happy holidays, TeleGeography Explains the Internet listeners. We hope you're savoring the...

Blog

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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Mar 14, 2024

Explaining the Internet Through the...

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

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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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Nov 7, 2023

Why 4G Is Still Relevant for Enterprise...

This week on TeleGeography Explains the Internet, we welcome SmartCIC CEO Toby Forman to the...

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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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Oct 10, 2023

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

Live from Ohio, it's Tuesday night. We're sneaking in a LIVE episode of TeleGeography Explains...

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Oct 3, 2023

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

Tuesday is podcast day here at TeleGeography. This time, we welcome William Collins, the...

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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 19, 2023

The Total Transformation of Latin...

Luis Fiallo has been in the telecom industry for over 25 years. And for the majority of that...

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Sep 12, 2023

Why Telecom Service Providers Need To...

In 2021 and 2022, MEF CTO Pascal Menezes joined us on TeleGeography Explains the Internet to...

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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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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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Apr 4, 2023

AI Meets The Corporate Network

Today’s episode of TeleGeography Explains the Internet is about artificial intelligence. And...

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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 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....

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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 31, 2023

Unpacking Telecom Predictions of the...

It's one thing to make predictions, but it's another to assess how those predictions turned...

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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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Jan 1, 2023

The WAN That Was: What We Learned From...

You thought we were going to do a major end-of-year review of telecom trends and leave out all...

Blog

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:...

Blog

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...

Blog

Dec 13, 2022

The Digital Divide Episode

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

Blog

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 22, 2022

Unraveling the Fabric Providers of...

This week, we're talking about NaaS. Sure, we've covered NaaS in various contexts on...

Blog

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...

Blog

Oct 11, 2022

Mobile as Infrastructure in Africa

Hello podcast listeners. It's Tuesday, which means there's a new episode of TeleGeography...

Blog

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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Sep 27, 2022

Simply Illuminating: Considering the...

Welcome back, podcast listeners. We're thrilled to dive into a new season of telecom tech...

Blog

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...

Blog

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...

Blog

Jun 7, 2022

Untying the Gordian Knot, Unlocking...

The TeleGeography team began benchmarking networks almost a decade ago. Back then, the big use...

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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...

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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...

Blog

Apr 12, 2022

Running a Network for a Healthcare...

WAN managers had to scramble to accommodate massive changes when the world shut down during...

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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...

Podcast Episode

Mar 22, 2022

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Middle...

Blog

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...

Blog

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...

Blog

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...

Blog

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...

Blog

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...

Blog

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...

Blog

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...

Blog

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...

Blog

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...

Blog

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...

Blog

Jul 6, 2021

The Very Definition of SD-WAN

When TeleGeography started tracking the SD-WAN market in 2017, we found dozens of vendors...

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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...

Blog

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...

Blog

Jun 14, 2021

Managing Multinational Network...

It's another case study episode of the podcast. Today, we welcome Ian Calderbank, Enterprise...

Podcast Episode

Jun 7, 2021

Citing Our WAN Sources

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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...

Blog

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...

Podcast Episode

May 10, 2021

I'm Just the Middle Mile Man

Blog

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%...

Blog

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...

Blog

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...

Blog

Mar 29, 2021

SmartNICs, Explained

Most of our listeners are probably familiar with network interface cards (NICs, if you're...

Blog

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

Blog

Feb 1, 2021

SFW: Safe for WANs

What do you think of when you think of integrating security into the WAN? WAN Dynamics' Jason...

Blog

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...

Blog

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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...