TeleGeography Explains the Internet

As the year ends, a few teammates joined us on the podcast to review the major telecom events of the past 12 months and chat about what we might anticipate in 2025. Some highlights 👇 ⛓️‍💥 Analyst Lane Burdette joins the show to review some of the most headline-grabbing trends (https://blog.telegeography.com/what-to-know-about-submarine-cable-breaks) we saw in the submarine cable world. ☁️ While...

Our latest guest is Vinay Prabhu, Director of Product Management at Graphiant. He joins us to discuss the intricacies of moving data around the globe. Vinay outlines why you should think about your data in motion and what Graphiant is doing to ensure its safe passage, particularly as AI becomes prevalent. Podcast HQ: https://www2.telegeography.com/telegeography-explains-the-internet-podcast TeleGe...

Our guest today is Rutger Bevaart, CEO and Co-founder of GNX. Rutger has a deep history in the telecom industry and founded GNX to streamline internet sourcing, which is undoubtedly a pain point for many listeners. We discuss the shift away from MPLS and toward the internet and how that transition can bring many benefits to an enterprise; however, it also comes with complexity and new challenges,...

Our guest today is Marcel Stadler, Product Manager of SD-WAN at Open Systems. Marcel joins our semi-annual conversation on SD-WAN; he outlines how managed SD-WAN providers like Open Systems approach these issues with their enterprise customers. Podcast HQ: https://www2.telegeography.com/telegeography-explains-the-internet-podcast TeleGeography Blog: https://blog.telegeography.com/ Our Research: ht...

Where are we building data centers? Why? What markets are primed for interconnectivity glory? Which ones are getting left in the dust? We've heard these questions repeatedly, so we did what any reasonable telecom data provider would do: we developed an interactive tool to rank the world's best-connected and fastest-growing cities, scoring them on a scale of 0 to 100 across nine key categories. Thi...

We're back on the AI beat, specifically looking at how it can support corporate network automation. Our guest today is Jamie Pugh, CTO at Globalgig. Jamie joined the show to ponder automation and discuss enterprise network orchestration in the era of an increasingly complex WAN. Podcast HQ: https://www2.telegeography.com/telegeography-explains-the-internet-podcast TeleGeography Blog: https://blog....

We had to do an AI episode of the pod. For that, we welcome Michael Wynston, Director of Network and Security Architecture at Fiserv. He's here to help us understand how AI is developing as a network management tool. Podcast HQ: https://www2.telegeography.com/telegeography-explains-the-internet-podcast TeleGeography Blog: https://blog.telegeography.com/ Our Research: https://www2.telegeography.com...

For our next episode, we look to the sky. Our guest is Sal Salamone, Managing Editor of Network Computing magazine. Sal joins to discuss the emerging market for direct-to-device satellite communications.  Podcast HQ: https://www2.telegeography.com/telegeography-explains-the-internet-podcast TeleGeography Blog: https://blog.telegeography.com/ Our Research: https://www2.telegeography.com/en/our-rese...

TeleGeography Explains the Internet examines U.S. telecom law. Greg is joined by Jeff Long, a private practice attorney with broad experience in the data center and telecom industry.  Podcast HQ: https://www2.telegeography.com/telegeography-explains-the-internet-podcast TeleGeography Blog: https://blog.telegeography.com/ Our Research: https://www2.telegeography.com/en/our-research  

Over the past five weeks, we've endeavored to explain precisely how data moves around the world, covering: What is the Internet? https://blog.telegeography.com/what-is-the-internet   What is a Transport Network? https://blog.telegeography.com/what-is-a-transport-network What Are Data Centers? https://blog.telegeography.com/what-are-data-centers What is the Cloud? https://blog.telegeography.com/wha...

You may have heard a popular saying: There is no cloud, only other people’s computers.  To explain how it works, Senior Research Manager Patrick Christian joins us to talk cloud. We explain what it means to get something "as-a-service," hyperscalers, CDNs, and how companies get to the cloud. More from this series: What is the Internet? https://blog.telegeography.com/what-is-the-internet What is a...

How and where do networks meet and exchange traffic with each other? How do they access their destinations? Senior Research Manager Jon Hjembo helps us understand data center types, their defining features, and what happens inside these facilities. We discussed who owns these structures and how their geography informs how the internet works. More from this series: What is the Internet? https://blo...

We explore the physical transport networks behind this seemingly invisible, omnipresent information superhighway. And we get a little help from TeleGeography's own Paul Brodsky, Peter Wood, and Lane Burdette. More from this series: What is the Internet? https://blog.telegeography.com/what-is-the-internet What Are Data Centers? https://blog.telegeography.com/what-are-data-centers What is the Cloud?...

What is the internet? Simply put, the internet is a network of computers. Computers can only understand two things: on and off. Everything that we do on the internet is in binary—a series of 1s and 0s representing on and off—which gives instructions to your computer to do all the amazing things it does. This means that the very bottom of the internet is a system for sending those 1s and 0s over wi...

Drawing upon his vast expertise in the Wi-Fi space, Tiago Rodrigues, President and CEO of the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), joins us in defining the key issues in the wireless LAN. This episode considers Wi-Fi 6, 6E, and 7 developments, OpenRoaming™ that allows seamless connection across different Wi-Fi networks, and Wi-Fi’s role in emerging solutions like NaaS. We also discuss the digital di...

Today we welcome Nokia's Paul Unbehagen to the pod. Paul has a deep history in the networking world, so he approaches his role at Nokia—NE Americas CTO—from the perspective of a network engineer. Although our main topics this week are enterprise cloud and right-sizing cloud utilization, we use those as a springboard into many topics circling the state of the network in 2023. We touch on the histor...

We welcome SmartCIC CEO Toby Forman to the show. Toby has a global perspective on the development of fixed wireless access (FWA) and its potential as a disruptive technology in the enterprise connectivity space.  After nailing down a solid definition of FWA in the market today, we run through the factors to consider when deploying FWA. Toby explains what Cellsmart—a division of SmartCIC focused on...

Today’s guest comes to the security world with a deep background in cloud and networks. Joe DePalo is Chief Platform Officer at Netskope, and the ideal person to help us understand how and why location matters in network security. We first identify how the network has changed over the past few years, gauging its impact on the threat landscape and how networks perform generally. Also on the agenda:...

We're asking the big questions about mobile advertising. Luckily, Ross Flynn of the Mobile Ecosystem Forum is with us to explain. Ross has a background in digital advertising, making him the ideal person to walk us through advertising formulas that pair ads with IPs.  He talks to Greg about programmatic advertising—not just what it is, but how the practice impacts the mobile market. And then we ge...

In August, we joined a meeting of the OH Network User Group at the BrewDog hotel and brewery in Columbus, Ohio. (If you're unfamiliar with the Network User Association, they're worth checking out.) The Ohio chapter kindly agreed to let host Greg give a live talk on how enterprise WANs are changing and the implications of those changes for network costs. We brought lots of WAN data, fielded tons of...

We're thrilled to welcome William Collins, Principal Cloud Architect at Alkira, to the pod. We asked William to discuss the history of enterprise cloud and highlight a few of the bigger issues in enterprise cloud networking today. His answers might surprise you. We even discuss supercloud—what it is and what its implications are. Grab your super suit and punch the play to hear the full discussion....

Telecom industry veteran Mark Daley, Epsilon Telecommunications Director of Digital Strategy and Business Development, joins us on the pod. After spending nearly a decade directly involved with SDN and NaaS at Epsilon, Mark is the perfect guest to discuss how NaaS is unfolding in the market. We start with Mark’s definition of NaaS and where he sees its availability in the current telecom services...

Luis Fiallo has been in the telecom industry for over 25 years. For the majority of that time, he has been at China Telecom Americas, witnessing firsthand the many changes happening in the Latin American telecom market. After years of helping to drive CTA's growth in the region, Luis, now Vice President, has many valuable insights to share with TeleGeography Explains the Internet. Peter Wood, Tele...

We welcome Stan Hubbard, Principal Analyst at MEF, to the show. Stan recently authored a State of the Industry Report for MEF; we wanted to have him on to discuss his findings and see where the telecom industry is at with adopting new technologies. Stan explains the market drivers and why telecom service providers need to automate to stay relevant and competitive. He then outlines the path carrier...

Dennis Thankachan, Co-Founder and CEO at Lightyear, joins us on the pod. Dennis is uniquely positioned to see how enterprises are sourcing networks. This episode covers the shift to off-premises data centers, hybrid and remote work, the drive to cut network costs through changing technologies, right-sizing networks, and more. We also touch on Dennis’ skepticism about frequently mentioned WAN trend...