Wan

Nov 22, 2021

WAN Pricing Over Time

We've written before about how prices vary by geography. It almost goes without saying that they also change over time.

Over the last 15 years of price tracking, we've consistently observed annual declines of around 10% to 20% over the long term. We can see slower or more rapid declines in some locations or bandwidths, but prices always go down over longer terms.

Nov 8, 2021

Underlay Changes: MPLS vs. DIA Pricing

In the past few decades, the corporate WAN has undergone a few massive reformations.

Aug 4, 2021

Would an SD-WAN by Any Other Name Smell as Sweet?

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.

Jul 19, 2021

Five Network Managers, Five Network Management Stories

Who here has been keeping up with season 2 of the WAN Manager Podcast? If you haven't been listening, there's no time like the present to catch up.

We collected five stellar first-person stories from the WAN managers who have popped by the pod over the last year. These experts relate their perspectives on everything from security to SD-WAN adoption, network transformation, and MPLS. Keep scrolling to take in their use cases. 

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.