Sep 21, 2016
The Best Tweets from WAN Summit Singapore
This week was big. We put another WAN Summit in the books, taking the show to Singapore for the first time ever.
This week was big. We put another WAN Summit in the books, taking the show to Singapore for the first time ever.
What does the Internet look like? Perhaps you’ve heard it described as a veritable network of networks.
While this is true, as TeleGeography’s Senior Analyst Paul Brodsky explains, no single network is big enough to connect every single person and every single computer. So the question remains: how are we really staying connected?
After a successful three-year run in New York and London, next week the TeleGeography team heads to Singapore for the first-ever WAN Summit Singapore.
If you’re like us, you’ve saved the best stuff on the Internet for some lazy weekend reading. Our team has four suggestions for telecoms pieces that'll make your morning coffee and your reading queue a little more interesting.
Content network operators account for a growing portion of bandwidth on global routes.
Perhaps by now you’ve read what companies like Google, Microsoft, and Facebook are doing about it: they’re taking primary ownership shares of transoceanic systems, joining consortia, and taking major stakes in carrier-owned cables.
If you've ever seen that little buffer symbol on your laptop screen as you wait for a movie to load, you know what digital traffic jams feel like.
A colocation center is a data center that provides shared space for network storage and interconnection.
Unlike a web hosting site, a colocation facility provides storage for the customers' own equipment. The facility typically provisions power, cooling, security, and intra-site connectivity, among other offerings.
Understanding the norms, trends, and pricing of colocation centers is a must for the modern network manager. That's why today we're sharing our best and brightest colocation resources. We've got info on colocation hubs, cross-connects, costs, and more.
Answer: the definition of broadband is, formally, “a high-capacity data transmission type that can handle multiple types of traffic at once.”
But in the context of internet access, broadband is used to mean any high-speed Internet access that is always on and faster than traditional dial-up access.
Google has joined a handful of carriers to complete a brand new Trans-Pacific oceanic cable – but this is hardly their first venture under the sea.
