As we dig into technical standards and definitions, MEF has come up several times on this show. It was only a matter of time before we put them in the hot seat.
It's likely that you've read the news by now. Google is teaming up with Telecom Italia Sparkle and others to build and operate two submarine cable systems linking the Middle East with southern Europe and India.
The Blue cable will connect Italy, France, Greece, Israel and go terrestrially to Jordan; while the Raman cable will connect Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Oman, and India. Combined, they will form a major new high-capacity route linking Europe and India.
Another day, another cable announcement involving a major content provider?
Yes and no.
Jul 12, 2021
NaaS, Cloud, and the Future of 5G
Listeners know that we've covered middle mile and NaaS on this show. We've also touched on the various companies emerging around these issues.
Today, we're getting extra perspective from one of those companies.
Jul 6, 2021
The Very Definition of SD-WAN
When TeleGeography started tracking the SD-WAN market in 2017, we found dozens of vendors offering a service they called "SD-WAN." But are all of these services created equal? What does it take for your solution to qualify as SD-WAN?
Jun 28, 2021
BorgWarner's Big SD-WAN Adventure
Are you like the (approximately) half of our survey respondents who have not yet adopted SD-WAN? Or perhaps you're in the midst of deployment and want to know what to look out for. Or maybe you're working out whether or not to keep MPLS?
Jun 21, 2021
To the Edge and Back
Today we're living on the edge! Whether we're talking security and SASE, NaaS, or cloud computing—or many other topics, honestly—edge networks and edge computing are likely to make it into the conversation.
Jun 14, 2021
Managing Multinational Network Modifications
It's another case study episode of the podcast. Today, we welcome Ian Calderbank, Enterprise Network Architect at PageGroup, to the hot seat.
Jun 7, 2021
Citing Our WAN Sources
In our latest episode of the podcast, we dig into sourcing. Our listeners know that we often discuss the migration of large enterprises away from one or two global suppliers for a mostly MPLS network to a novel mix of transport types and suppliers. This is especially true due to changing trends in cloud migration, SD-WAN, and security.
Jun 1, 2021
Nailing Down Network-as-a-Service
Our data shows that most enterprises have more than one IaaS provider. For SaaS, that number can be dozens, hundreds, or even more. Most have moved the majority of their data centers off corporate premises to some kind of shared facility.
This means most companies are dealing with multi-cloud connectivity in some form; WAN managers, of course, have to handle that from a performance and cost perspective.
Last month Luxembourg-based Millicom International Cellular sealed a pair of deals that will see it exit the African telecom sector once and for all.
Its stake in Ghanaian joint venture AirtelTigo was sold to the country’s government. Tigo Tanzania and Zanzibar Telecommunication (Zantel) were offloaded to a consortium led by Axian—the company that previously acquired Millicom’s Senegal-based business in 2018.
