Last year we wanted to take a snapshot of the telecom market.
And it was this desire—our attempt to answer the question what is happening in telecom at this moment in time?—that led to the creation of our annual State of the Network report.
It’s one year later and we find ourselves with a new opportunity to reflect on what is happening across all corners of modern communication—from point-to-point backbone telecom pricing and bandwidth supply to international long-distance and the SD-WAN market.
We still believe that no one report or research service can paint a complete picture of where telecom is today, nor where it is headed tomorrow. However, if our experience preparing this resource last year has taught us anything, it’s that there is much to gain from exploring many different angles of telecommunications at once, considering the ways in which they relate and react to one another.
In 2019 we’ve again turned to four of our core products to do this: Global Bandwidth Research Service, Global Internet Geography, Data Center Research Service, and the TeleGeography Report and Database.
We combined our latest and greatest findings from each of these distinct products to better understand how international bandwidth, internet, colocation, cloud, wide area network, and voice are evolving and impacting one another.
We combined our latest and greatest findings from each of these distinct products to better understand how international bandwidth, internet, colocation, cloud, wide area network, and voice are evolving and impacting one another.
These chapters provide an overview of the information contained within the four core products sampled, as well as an examination of how these distinct market segments connect to one another.
We hope the result paints a picture of how the world is connecting and communicating in 2018-2019. Enjoy.
