Dec 20, 2022

2022 in Telecom: A Year in Review

Another December, another opportunity to reflect on the year that was. And that's exactly what we're doing over on TeleGeography Explains the Internet.

This week, Greg Bryan kicks off the first of a two-part telecom year in review, welcoming experts Patrick Christian, Rob Schult, and Jon Hjembo to highlight the major trends they saw in their principal research areas.

Dec 19, 2022

Sub-Saharan Africa Bandwidth Trends

Senior Research Manager Patrick Christian recently shared the slides from his African Network Geography Update at AfPIF 2022 and his Interconnection Geography Update at EPF 2022.

Here's another presentation to add to your collection.

Dec 16, 2022

Soak up the Sun (And Our Annual Telecom Workshop) at PTC '23

Aloha!

The dates for the next Pacific Telecommunications Council Annual Conference have been released.

We'll be live from Honolulu January 15-18, 2023, and dream team Brianna Boudreau, Jon Hjembo, and Alan Mauldin are already gearing up for TeleGeography's annual telecom trends workshop.

Dec 15, 2022

Latin American Market Trends: Brazil and Mexico

As telecom analysts, my TeleGeography colleagues and I have been busy attending conferences and gathering market intelligence from many of the most prominent telecom companies around the world.

Recently, our travels took us to São Paulo and Mexico City for the Futurecom and Mexico Connect 2022 conferences.

There’s a lot going on in both the Brazilian and Mexican markets, so let’s recap some of the discussion themes that stood out.

WAN
Dec 14, 2022

How Did We Forecast the WAN Market?

You may have heard that the WAN Market Size Report just got a brand-new feature—the WAN Market Size Report Forecast.

Predicting global, regional, and country level data for the next five years, this first edition takes the data from the 2021 report and extrapolates it to 2026.

Here's how we did it.

WAN
Dec 13, 2022

The Digital Divide Episode

James “Jim” Capuano has logged over 30 years in the telecommunications industry. And he's the CEO of Horizon, a service provider with more than 125 years of telecommunications experience.

I recently asked Jim to share some of his knowledge on TeleGeography Explains the Internet. In this episode, we view middle mile problems and solutions from a provider perspective and discuss how the middle mile is developing in the current WAN environment.

Dec 7, 2022

Hypothetical Network Series #5: Let’s Throw Bandwidth at the Problem

So far, we’ve looked at several more conservative approaches to constructing a hybrid WAN.

But what if we went all the way down the rabbit hole to an all Internet WAN?

For example, throwing a lot of bandwidth at the network and letting SD-WAN take care of the internet performance.

WAN
Dec 6, 2022

Orchestrating the Service Lifecycle

In 2021, MEF CTO Pascal Menezes walked us through the work MEF is doing on standardizing the enterprise network.

Nearly a year and a half later, Pascal is back on the pod to discuss what MEF has been doing since then.

Our first topic: Lifecycle Service Orchestration. What is it, how has it progressed, and what does it do for the carrier community?

Dec 5, 2022

Turkcell Unsuccessful With Iran Lawsuit

South Africa’s MTN Group has announced the end of a decade-long legal battle centered on its Iranian subsidiary, MTN Irancell.

Nov 30, 2022

A Shortage of Computer Chips and Cable Ships

You've probably read about the global chip shortage the world is facing due to supply chain issues. As it turns out, there's also a shortage of undersea cable-laying ships.