Kristin Carlson

Kristin is TeleGeography's Content Marketing Manager.

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Mar 20, 2023

Never Fear, the 2023 SD-WAN Guide Is Here

The SD-WAN vendor landscape has changed.

Many of the familiar faces that pioneered initial SD-WAN services have been acquired, and a host of managed SD-WAN service providers have emerged as a popular option for many enterprise customers.

So in a world where information is power, a new hero has risen to provide SD-WAN vendor knowledge to those in need: TeleGeography’s 2023 SD-WAN Guide.

Mar 17, 2023

Dive Into Digital Infrastructure at Datacloud Global Congress

Datacloud Global Congress 2023 is nearly upon us, and the agenda is stacked with three full days focused on digital infrastructure.

It's all happening April 25-27 at the Grimaldi Forum, located on the seafront of Monaco's eastern beach quarter, Larvotto.

Mar 6, 2023

Feast Your Eyes on the 2023 Submarine Cable Map

What has dashing good looks and depicts 529 cable systems and 1,444 landings that are currently active or under construction?

The 2023 Submarine Cable Map!

Sponsored by Telecom Egypt, this edition is chock-full of information on new builds, hubs, bandwidth, content providers, and more.

Feb 28, 2023

Subsea Cable Infrastructure and Climate Change

We're closing out February with our top five telecom reading recommendations from the month.

First up: a look at how submarine cables are vulnerable to sea-level rise, storms, and other climate impacts.

Feb 13, 2023

State of the Network: Piecing Together Telecom Trends in 2023

The wait is over. The 2023 State of the Network Report is finally here and it's our sixth annual check-in on all things telecom, if you can believe it.

We again extract 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.

But what’s new and different? What’s the data telling us in 2023? 

Feb 10, 2023

What's Driving the Surge of New Subsea Cables Across Latin America?

Capacity LATAM 2023 is happening March 14-15 in São Paulo. And you just might see a familiar face on the agenda.

Senior Research Analyst Peter Wood will be sharing his expertise in a subsea panel discussion on March 14.

Feb 3, 2023

Competing Visions: Network Upgrades vs. Modernization

Next month, Senior Research Manager Paul Brodsky will be taking part in a subsea-focused panel at Capacity Middle East.

This panel, titled Competing Visions, will cover network upgrades vs. network modernization, supply chain implications that have affected the industry during covid times, and what this all means for subsea architecture in the Middle East.

Jan 30, 2023

What Do You Get When You Cross GEO Satellites and SD-WAN?

While most planned satellite constellations used for connectivity fly in low earth orbit (LEO), some fly in geosynchronous equatorial orbit (GEO) and circle the earth from a much further distance.

Because of this distance, LEO satellites tend to have lower latency and higher bandwidth than their GEO counterparts.

So when MetTel tried to cross its SD-WAN offering with HughesNet's GEO connection, it got latency.

More on this story and our other January telecom reading recs below.

Jan 10, 2023

Meet the 2023 Africa Telecommunications Map

Our first new map of 2023 is here! Meet the brand new Africa Telecommunications Map.

This edition depicts 72 cable systems connected to Africa that are currently active or under construction.

Jan 4, 2023

AI vs. TeleGeography: The Submarine Cable Showdown

The TG team is enjoying OpenAI's new ChatGPT—an artificial intelligence assistant trained to answer questions and provide information on a wide range of topics—and our Slack channels show it.

As usual, we can't help talking about telecom, so our analysts have made a game of testing ChatGPT's submarine cable knowledge.

How well has it fared?