Oct 12, 2023

Tracking International Internet Traffic by Region

Three years after the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the internet seems to have achieved a state of normalcy.

This can be seen across regions of the world. With the initial rapid traffic growth due to COVID-19 continuing to wane in 2023, many global networks appear to have started to return to more typical rates of utilization.

Let’s look at the numbers.

Oct 11, 2023

Inside Asia’s Increasing Demand for Cloud Expansion

In a recent interview with Asian Telecom, I was asked to shed light on Asia’s prominence in global cloud services. More specifically, why are data centers and cloud services expanding so rapidly in Asia?

As population density increases, there is a natural surge in data consumption, like cloud services. So it makes sense that Asia—home to 60% of the world’s population—has a growing demand for data centers.

But that's not the only catalyst here, and there are numerous advantages to having data centers clustered across Asia.

WAN
Oct 10, 2023

Born in the (US)NUA: LIVE from Ohio!

Live from Ohio, it's Tuesday night. We're sneaking in a LIVE episode of TeleGeography Explains the Internet this week. 

Oct 3, 2023

It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Super Cloud

Tuesday is podcast day here at TeleGeography. This time, we welcome William Collins, the Principal Cloud Architect at Alkira.

If the subject of this blog didn't totally give it away, today's episode is focused on the cloud. I asked William to talk us through the history of enterprise cloud and highlight a few of the more significant issues in enterprise cloud networking today. His answers might surprise you.

WAN
Sep 26, 2023

How NaaS Relates to SDN and Automation

The newest member of the TeleGeography Explains the Internet club is telecom industry veteran Mark Daley, Epsilon Telecommunications Director of Digital Strategy and Business Development.

After spending nearly a decade directly involved with SDN and NaaS at Epsilon Telecommunications, Mark is the perfect guest to help me talk through how NaaS is unfolding in the market.

Sep 21, 2023

Total International Internet Bandwidth Now Stands at 1,217 Tbps

After a tumultuous 2020, in which the COVID-19 pandemic caused internet traffic patterns to shift and volumes to surge, network operators have returned to the business of adding bandwidth and engineering their traffic in a more measured manner.

Sep 19, 2023

The Total Transformation of Latin American Telecom

Luis Fiallo has been in the telecom industry for over 25 years. And for the majority of that time, he has been at China Telecom Americas, witnessing the many changes happening in the Latin American telecom market firsthand.

After years of helping to drive CTA's growth in the region, Luis, now Vice President, has many valuable insights to share with TeleGeography Explains the Internet.

Since this episode primarily focuses on Latin American networks and cloud developments, I invited my colleague Peter Wood, TeleGeography’s Senior Analyst covering Latin America.

Sep 14, 2023

New Network Security Analysis Tracks SASE Pricing Strategies

We recently surveyed a mixture of carriers and MSPs, SD-WAN vendors, and pure-play security vendors about their network security offerings in order to analyze what these services are and how they are being offered.

In this analysis, we also detail the available pricing models across services.

Here's an excerpt.

WAN
Sep 12, 2023

Why Telecom Service Providers Need To Automate

In 2021 and 2022, MEF CTO Pascal Menezes joined us on TeleGeography Explains the Internet to discuss MEF's work on standardizing the enterprise network.

This season, we welcome a new face from the same team, Stan Hubbard, Principal Analyst at MEF. Stan recently authored a State of the Industry Report for MEF; I wanted to have him on to discuss his findings and see where the telecom industry is at with adopting new technologies.

WAN
Sep 5, 2023

Are These WAN Sourcing Trends Real or Just Hype?

Season 5 of TeleGeography Explains the Internet is here, and we're kicking things off with Dennis Thankachan, Co-Founder and CEO at Lightyear.

Because Dennis is uniquely positioned to see how enterprises are sourcing networks, I was excited to talk to him about some key WAN trends he has seen recently.