"In previous iterations of the WAN, you might have seen one large MPLS cloud, but with core sites having a larger MPLS port than edge sites. Now we're seeing a lot more technology differentiation between core versus middle tier versus edge sites."
A self-proclaimed "data guy," TeleGeography Senior Analyst and Data Science Manager Mike Bisaha has spent years building tools to help IT managers better understand the performance, design, and cost of their networks.
And he's learned a lot about what the modern WAN looks like in the process.
In this week's WAN Manager Podcast, Mike steps in to explain best practices in benchmarking a wide area network against key goals.
So who benchmarks? How does this make life easier for a WAN manager? What has benchmarking taught us about networks? And how have the goals of WAN managers shifted over the last five to ten years? Listen below to learn more.
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From This Episode
- On TEMs: You Can't Benchmark Your Network if You Don't Understand What You're Buying
- Schrodinger's MPLS and Why Predicting the Future is Hard
- Five Years of SD-WAN Migration Stories, Five Takeaways
- WAN Pricing Mythbusters
- Wargaming Your WAN
- Get the WAN Manager Newsletter
- About the WAN Cost Benchmark
- About the WAN Manager Survey
- Take the WAN Manager Survey (And then take this related, even shorter COVID-19 impact survey)
- About Our Sponsor: All About Benchmarking
Greg Bryan
Greg is Senior Manager, Enterprise Research at TeleGeography. He's spent the last decade and a half at TeleGeography developing many of our pricing products and reports about enterprise networks. He is a frequent speaker at conferences about corporate wide area networks and enterprise telecom services. He also hosts our podcast, TeleGeography Explains the Internet.
Mike Bisaha
Michael Bisaha is a Senior Analyst and Director of Data Science at TeleGeography. In addition to his work covering competitive market and pricing trends in the wholesale and enterprise telecom space, he heads the Data Science group responsible for data management, product development, design, forecast modeling, and custom analytics initiatives.