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Oct 17, 2023

How Do Targeted Ads Work? Is My Phone Listening In?

Why am I getting ads for this toothpaste? How could my devices possibly know I'm in the market for a new tube? Did they hear me mutter something about running low? Do they know I jotted it down on our grocery list?

Today on TeleGeography Explains the Internet, we're asking the big questions about mobile advertising. 

Oct 16, 2023

Africa Update: More Cables, Less Dependency on Europe

When Senior Research Manager Patrick Christian returned to the African Peering and Interconnection Forum this year, he did not come empty-handed.

Tucked into his suitcase—or, more accurately, safely stored in the cloud—was Patrick’s keynote presentation, a brand new African Network Geography Update.

Watch the recording below to explore global network trends, African bandwidth trends, localized content growth, and end-user demand.

You’ll also hear a bit about 2Africa and what we can expect when the cable system comes online.

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. 

Yup. We're sneaking in a LIVE episode of TeleGeography Explains the Internet this week. 

Oct 6, 2023

Reviewing the Connectivity Landscape: Predictions for 2024 and Beyond

Update: This event has been cancelled. More details here.

Next month, Senior Research Manager Greg Bryan will be taking part in a panel discussion at Capacity's Connected Enterprise in Chicago.

This panel, titled Reviewing the Connectivity Landscape, will cover a handful of big questions.

Oct 5, 2023

One World, Two Networks?

Last week, Research Director Alan Mauldin unveiled yet another show-stopping presentation at Submarine Networks World.

This time around, Alan dove into the “Subsea Cold War” between China and the U.S. to assess its impact on the submarine cable industry.

Oct 3, 2023

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

Tuesday is podcast day here at TeleGeography. And this time around we welcome William Collins, 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 bigger issues in enterprise cloud networking today. His answers might surprise you.

Oct 2, 2023

The TG Eras Tour: Journeying Through Three Decades of Maps

Taylor Swift and TeleGeography have something in common—we were both born in 1989. And much like everyone’s favorite pop star, we are taking a tour through the ages (of our maps, that is).

Sep 28, 2023

Keeping Subsea Cables Safe

Another month, another list of interesting telecom reads (and listens).

Here are a few things you ought to have on your radar, including a podcast episode about submarine cable geopolitics, a handsome take on our Submarine Cable Map, a new cloud data center presentation, and more.