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TeleGeography at Submarine Networks World 2025
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WAN Market Size: 2025-2030 Forecast
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Jun 23, 2025
Find the Right SD-WAN Vendor With Our Free 2025 Guide
It’s been almost a decade since SD-WAN burst onto the scene, and the service is undeniably a critical...
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Automate or Bust: What's the Real Benefit of Network Automation?
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New on the Pod: Lightyear Considers the State of Connectivity
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Data Assurance in the Age of AI
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The Podcast Goes Dark! (Dark Fiber, That is)
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What You Need to Know About Network as a Service in 2025
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2024: A Telecom Year in Review
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What Network Managers Should Know About AI and Machine Learning
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Oct 23, 2024
Six Insights from Our 2024 Business Broadband Analysis
The role of business broadband in WAN architecture is evolving. It’s no longer just a backup option—many...
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Oct 10, 2024
Ethernet in the WAN
Carrier-grade Ethernet is a critical piece of today’s enterprise WAN, and carriers continue to expand...
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Aug 15, 2024
SD-WAN vs MPLS: Battling for Network Dominance
Grab your headphones, we've got a podcast recommendation. TeleGeography Senior Manager of Enterprise...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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Why 4G Is Still Relevant for Enterprise Connectivity
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How Geography Influences Network Security
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Oct 17, 2023
How Do Targeted Ads Work? Is My Phone Listening In?
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Oct 11, 2023
Inside Asia’s Increasing Demand for Cloud Expansion
In a recent interview with Asian Telecom, I was asked to shed light on Asia’s prominence in global cloud...
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Born in the (US)NUA: LIVE from Ohio!
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It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Super Cloud
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Sep 26, 2023
How NaaS Relates to SDN and Automation
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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...
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Sep 12, 2023
Why Telecom Service Providers Need To Automate
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Sep 5, 2023
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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...
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Aug 24, 2023
Eight Enterprise Products, Explained
The geographic coverage of carriers’ enterprise network services varies significantly. Not every carrier...
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Aug 17, 2023
These Two Regions Account For About 65% of the World’s Cloud Data Centers
Cloud services have become a critical component of many enterprises' data management. And how...
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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...
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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...
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Jul 12, 2023
SD-What? A Quick Explanation of What SD-WAN Is and How It’s Deployed
Corporate traffic patterns continue to change. And static, single technology transport networks designed...
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Apr 25, 2023
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Apr 4, 2023
AI Meets The Corporate Network
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Mar 29, 2023
Real Talk: Are WAN Managers Adopting NaaS?
As cloud adoption becomes increasingly necessary for multinational enterprises, backend networks are...
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Mar 28, 2023
What Makes a WAN Truly Secure?
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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 attempt to...
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Mar 14, 2023
Confessions of a Telecom Investor
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Feb 21, 2023
Preparing the Next Generation of Infrastructure Professionals
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Jan 31, 2023
Unpacking Telecom Predictions of the Past
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Jan 24, 2023
SASE and Secure
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Jan 17, 2023
A Brief History of Networking as a Service
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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...
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Jan 1, 2023
The WAN That Was: What We Learned From Enterprise Networking in 2022
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Dec 27, 2022
Feeling '22: A Telecom Year in Review, Part 2
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Dec 13, 2022
The Digital Divide Episode
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Dec 7, 2022
Hypothetical Network Series #5: Let’s Throw Bandwidth at the Problem
So far, we’ve looked at several more conservative approaches to constructing a hybrid WAN. But what if...
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Dec 6, 2022
Orchestrating the Service Lifecycle
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Nov 30, 2022
Sizing the WAN Market
As the WAN continues to evolve at warp speed, carriers, vendors, and enterprise IT infrastructure teams...
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Nov 29, 2022
Embracing Carrier Service Automation
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Nov 28, 2022
Hypothetical Network Series #4: Adapting to Remote Work
The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed the way we work. And our next scenario illustrates the...
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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...
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Nov 22, 2022
Unraveling the Fabric Providers of Reality
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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...
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Nov 15, 2022
Unpacking Network Observability
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Nov 14, 2022
Hypothetical Network Series #2: Tiered Sites Approach
Use of the internet in corporate WANs is quickly growing. And for good reason. Not only are internet...
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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...
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Oct 4, 2022
Data Centers and the Opportunity at the Edge
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Sep 27, 2022
Simply Illuminating: Considering the Future of Optical Transport
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Aug 4, 2022
The Global SD-WAN Market for Large Multinational Enterprises Is Worth…
The results are in. According to our research, the global SD-WAN market for large multinational...
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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...
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Jul 18, 2022
How a Complete SD-WAN Overlay Can Impact Total Network Spend
To provide insight into how a complete SD-WAN overlay can impact total network spend, it’s useful to...
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Jun 21, 2022
What's Wireless Got to Do With It?
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Jun 14, 2022
How Enterprises Are Implementing NaaS (And Leaving MPLS)
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Jun 7, 2022
Untying the Gordian Knot, Unlocking Your Future Network
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May 3, 2022
The Need for NaaS
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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, you’re in luck;...
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Apr 19, 2022
SASE Isn't Revolutionary. It's Evolutionary.
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Apr 12, 2022
Running a Network for a Healthcare Company. During a Pandemic.
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Apr 5, 2022
How Global Events Impact the Internet
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Mar 28, 2022
SD-WAN's Shift to Security
While the key SD-WAN transformation use case was built around network cost and resiliency, its focus is...
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Mar 22, 2022
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Middle Mile?
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Mar 21, 2022
Unpacking SD-WAN Prices
Unlike network services, SD-WAN is not a commodity, and pricing strategies are still in flux. But as the...
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Mar 8, 2022
Data Centers and Digital Transformation
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Feb 22, 2022
The WAN Managers Have Spoken (For Now)
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Feb 15, 2022
Integrating Wireless into the WAN
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Feb 8, 2022
Upskilling Network Architects for the Automated Network
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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 global...
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Jan 25, 2022
Understanding the Multicloud-Verse of Madness
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Jan 3, 2022
Wireless Broadband in WAN
Business broadband is no longer a connection of last resort. In fact, it is an integral part of WAN...
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...
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Dec 21, 2021
2021 WAN in Review: Part 2
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Dec 14, 2021
2021 WAN in Review
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Nov 23, 2021
Wholesale Pricing and the WAN
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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 they also...
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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, many...
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Aug 4, 2021
Would an SD-WAN by Any Other Name Smell as Sweet?
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Jul 12, 2021
NaaS, Cloud, and the Future of 5G
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Jul 6, 2021
The Very Definition of SD-WAN
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Jun 28, 2021
BorgWarner's Big SD-WAN Adventure
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Jun 21, 2021
To the Edge and Back
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Jun 14, 2021
Managing Multinational Network Modifications
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Jun 7, 2021
Citing Our WAN Sources
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Jun 1, 2021
Nailing Down Network-as-a-Service
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May 17, 2021
Submarine Cables: It's Not Bitcoin
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May 10, 2021
I'm Just the Middle Mile Man
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Apr 27, 2021
What Role Will MPLS Play in the Future of the WAN?
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Apr 19, 2021
WAN Manager Survey Data: Let's Do The Time (Series) Warp
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Apr 5, 2021
The Art of Zen and Network Monitoring
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Mar 29, 2021
SmartNICs, Explained
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Mar 8, 2021
A Very Special Episode About a Very Global Network
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Mar 5, 2021
What is Internet Middle Mile?
With the middle mile emerging as one of the next major topics of interest for global enterprises, we...
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Mar 1, 2021
Putting The Data Center Geography in TeleGeography
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Feb 23, 2021
Designing a Network for Now (And Five Years From Now)
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Feb 8, 2021
Stuck in the Middle Mile With You
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Feb 1, 2021
SFW: Safe for WANs
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Jan 25, 2021
Open Minds, Open Source SD-WAN
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Jan 14, 2021
Data Center Matchmaking: Finding Your Dream Combo of Connectivity and Cost
🎶Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make me a match, Find a facility That's a real catch Matchmaker, Matchmaker...
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Dec 17, 2020
Ponder the Future of the WAN With a Podcast Holiday Special
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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...
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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...
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Jul 16, 2020
What to Know About Connecting to Your IaaS Provider
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Jul 6, 2020
The WAN and Working From Home
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Jun 29, 2020
A Changing WAN, Benchmarked
Podcast Episode
Jun 22, 2020
Everything You Wanted to Know About Sourcing Internet
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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...
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May 14, 2020
WAN Pricing Mythbusters: Can SD-WAN Cut Your Network Spend in Half?
Welcome back to the third installment of our mythbusting series, where we break down legends in telecom...
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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...
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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...
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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 nerd like...
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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...
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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 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...
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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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Feb 27, 2019
You're Going to be Reading More About Managed SD-WAN
While independent SD-WAN vendors make their mark, traditional telecom service providers are rolling out...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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Aug 8, 2016
SD-WAN Provider Facts for the Modern Network Specialist
Network specialists herald the software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) as the most significant...
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Jul 26, 2016
A Primer For Anyone Who Has Ever Googled “What is SD-WAN?"
Faced with the one-two punch of growing bandwidth demand and restricted network budgets, corporate wide...
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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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