2Africa has been a hot topic since it was announced in May 2020.
And if this cable is on your radar, you might be interested to know that TeleGeography's own Paul Brodsky will be moderating the panel Subsea Middle East: An Inside Look at 2Africa at Capacity Middle East next month.
Believe it or not, with 2022 comes our fifth State of the Network Report.
If this is your first State of the Network rodeo, think of this e-book as an annual telecom check-in, informed by another year of data collection and analysis from TeleGeography’s larger research portfolio.
As usual, we extract the major global bandwidth headlines, take a snapshot of the global internet, peruse the latest in data centers, check in on the cloud, and finish with an update from the voice market.
There’s no other way to put it. This State of the Network Report is a weird one.
Happy Valentine's Day to you, beloved reader. Or Discount Candy Day Eve, as some of us like to say.
Love hurts, after all. But for a recently-launched fleet of Starlink satellites, a geomagnetic storm hurts even more.
"The two most predictable trends in the bandwidth market have been persistent demand growth and price erosion."
For PTC '22, Senior Research Manager Brianna Boudreau took a look at the most common pricing questions we've gotten over the past year to think through how they might play out in 2022.
In previous iterations of this workshop, our first question would not be if prices are falling, but by how much?
It can be hard to encapsulate what's going on in the data center market at any given point in time.
There's so much happening in so many places, driven by so many different factors.
But never fear, Jon Hjembo is here—with the development trends and pricing expectations that he delivered during his review of the interconnection sector at PTC '22.
Cable faults happen fairly often and for a variety of reasons.
Most of the time, damage to submarine cables comes from human activity—primarily fishing and anchoring. But environmental factors can also cause a cable to break.
This just happened in Tonga, where an underwater volcanic eruption and subsequent tsunami damaged the country's only undersea cable. Early reports indicate that it could be a few weeks before the necessary repairs are made. More on that below.
It's that time of year again. The time to string up twinkle lights, pour eggnog in your coffee, and cozy up on the couch with your favorite holiday film.
Back in the day, you'd be dusting off the box in your attic marked "Christmas movies." Today—thanks to streaming services—all you need is your trusty remote.
But how does this actually work? Keep scrolling for insight on how Netflix delivers its content globally.
If you caught last week's special episode of the WAN Manager Podcast, you must be waiting on the edge of your seat for the second installment.
To recap, Greg Bryan and Elizabeth Thorne are keeping up their tradition of decking the halls with an end-of-year WAN review. And since 2021 was such a big year, we couldn't fit everything into just one episode.
To make up for the cliffhanger, we've packed part two with enough data and lively conversation to knock your stockings off their mantel.
If you've been a loyal listener of the WAN Manager Podcast, you might remember that last year Greg Bryan and Elizabeth Thorne teamed up for a very special WAN year-in-review.
Well, they're back at it for 2021. In our latest WAN Manager Podcast holiday special, we're shaking the snow globe that is the 2021 WANscape.
While a fifteen-year friendship with Greg is not a prerequisite for guests on the pod, it sure makes for good conversation.
To kick off Season 3 of the WAN Manager Podcast, Greg calls on longtime colleague Rob Schult—who also happens to be a Research Director here at TeleGeography—to draw the connection between the wholesale market and the enterprise retail market.
What should IT infrastructure and sourcing teams pay attention to in the wholesale market most?
