Wan

Feb 23, 2021

Designing a Network for Now (And Five Years From Now)

Our resident podcaster Greg Bryan recently sat down with Daniel Remarc Bognár—the Head of Network Architecture at Norsk Hydro—to get his network case study.

As an early adopter of SD-WAN, and an eventual participant in a merger, there were plenty of lessons learned along the way.

Feb 8, 2021

Stuck in the Middle Mile With You

A new class of network provider has emerged, optimizing connectivity between the office and the cloud. What do they offer? How do they do it? And what’s happening between the core backbone and local access?

TeleGeography Principal Analyst Erik Kreifeldt is in the house, and Greg is asking the big questions about internet middle mile.

Feb 1, 2021

SFW: Safe for WANs

What do you think of when you think of integrating security into the WAN?

WAN Dynamics' Jason Gintert sees a changing connectivity landscape that presents no shortage of challenges to security teams. 

Jan 25, 2021

Open Minds, Open Source SD-WAN

What is open source SD-WAN, and how is it different from other "open" platforms we've already seen?

This was the right question for flexiWAN CEO Amir Zmora, who wanted to get into the SD-WAN space, but only if he could do something totally different.

Jan 14, 2021

Data Center Matchmaking: Finding Your Dream Combo of Connectivity and Cost

🎶Matchmaker, Matchmaker,
Make me a match,
Find a facility
That's a real catch
Matchmaker, Matchmaker
Knows what I need,
The most connectivity🎶 

Dec 17, 2020

Ponder the Future of the WAN With a Podcast Holiday Special

We're back with a bonus holiday episode of the podcast! In this special episode, Greg invites TeleGeography Analyst Elizabeth Thorne to look back at the WAN in 2020. (And what a year it was.)

Nov 19, 2020

Three Facts From Our New WAN Market Size Report

If you've perused our research catalog lately, you'll know that we have a new WAN Market Size Report.

In this offering, we present a data-driven, granular view of market opportunity for underlay of the corporate WAN. (More about that here.)

To understand where the larger multinational WAN market stands today, we're sharing three takeaways from the first edition of the WAN Market Size Report. 

Oct 13, 2020

New WAN Market Size Report Shows a Global WAN Market Worth $75.9 Billion

There’s no question that the enterprise wide area network (WAN) market is in a state of flux. 

We’ve seen multiple disruptions in the way multinational corporations construct WANs: a move toward cloud computing, migration of the data center away from corporate premises, and, especially, the introduction of SD-WAN.

To help carriers, vendors, and enterprise IT infrastructure teams understand how these changes will affect the business of telecom, we’ve created the new WAN Market Size Report.

Aug 11, 2020

The Dollars and Cents of SD-WAN

What's driving the shift to SD-WAN?

While there is no one single reason for SD-WAN's rise, cost savings is a major motivation cited by the WAN managers we've connected with at our WAN Summits and through our annual WAN Manager Survey.

Listen—the allure of dramatically reducing network spend is strong.

Jul 16, 2020

What to Know About Connecting to Your IaaS Provider

Around three in four enterprises that responded to our latest WAN Manager Survey reported having multiple infrastructure as a service (IaaS) partner. Azure and AWS were easily the most frequently cited by participants; 60% were using one or both of these providers.

With this in mind, how are enterprises connecting to their IaaS providers and why would you select one method over another? And what's the global geographic distribution of cloud providers looking like these days?