The first challenge in sourcing internet is deciding what you need. It's finding a balance between cost and performance that's so important. Because in an internet world you're going to have a lot more choice than in an MPLS world.
This advice comes from Globalinternet Chief Portfolio Officer Mike Lloyd.
Mike joined Greg on this week's WAN Manager Podcast to talk about, naturally, sourcing internet. They zero in on the biggest challenges in sourcing and the most efficient solutions Mike has seen when it comes to buying internet from ISPs around the globe.
Adding internet as part of a hybrid MPLS solution? Adding a second line for SD-WAN or local breakouts for SaaS applications? Ditching MPLS altogether? The modern WAN increasingly includes internet alongside or in place of these traditional telco services. And these two have seen it all.
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From This Episode
- About Globalinternet
- Schrodinger's MPLS and Why Predicting the Future is Hard
- This is How the Average Enterprise is Managing Their Network in 2020
- WAN Pricing Mythbusters
- Wargaming Your WAN
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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.