With the explosion of cloud applications in the corporate network and the shift to local internet breakouts, it's more important than ever for WAN managers to understand where their data centers sit.
If you've been a loyal listener of the WAN Manager Podcast, you might remember that last year Greg Bryan and Elizabeth Thorne teamed up for a very special WAN year-in-review.
Well, they're back at it for 2021. In our latest WAN Manager Podcast holiday special, we're shaking the snow globe that is the 2021 WANscape.
“Middle mile” loosely refers to the network segment between local access and destination network.
From the perspective of a potential customer, it might refer to whatever happens between its connection with the service provider and its application in the cloud.
SD-WAN's core promise of optimizing network performance through load balancing—and cutting costs by integrating internet into the WAN—has proven attractive. And it's helped the service take root among many large enterprise network teams.
The landscape for SD-WAN vendors is vast. While the core features of SD-WAN are generally consistent, vendors vary on additional features, security, deployment models, and pricing structures.
Our SD-WAN Research Service details the different service features and pricing available across SD-WAN vendors.
While a fifteen-year friendship with Greg is not a prerequisite for guests on the pod, it sure makes for good conversation.
To kick off Season 3 of the WAN Manager Podcast, Greg calls on longtime colleague Rob Schult—who also happens to be a Research Director here at TeleGeography—to draw the connection between the wholesale market and the enterprise retail market.
What should IT infrastructure and sourcing teams pay attention to in the wholesale market most?
We've written before about how prices vary by geography.
Well, it almost goes without saying that they also change over time.
Product pricing is a key factor in deciding when and where to use MPLS, DIA, broadband, or other network connectivity services at each site.
But today we want to focus on the "where."
In the past few decades, the corporate WAN has undergone a few massive reformations.
Our analysis has taken us through a tour of the SD-WAN market, types of providers, service features, and pricing.
Today we apply SD-WAN prices to a hypothetical model of a global WAN to explore how different network configurations paired with SD-WAN can affect total WAN costs.
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