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Oct 14, 2016

5 Telecoms Articles You Should Read This Weekend: SD-WAN Edition

Time for another round of "what is the team at TeleGeography reading?"

This time around we're all about that SD-WAN. (Perhaps we're just excited about the upcoming WAN Summit London?) Below are five pieces any network manager should bookmark for their weekend reading queue.

Oct 3, 2016

5 Takeaways From WAN Summit Singapore

The WAN Summit Singapore brought together a diverse group of players from the enterprise WAN space September 20-21, 2016.

Buyers and providers of enterprise network services dove into case studies, panel discussions, and roundtable conversations, sharing ideas and addressing some of the biggest issues facing those working in international enterprise networks.

Sep 30, 2016

TeleGeography at WAN Summit London

Greg Bryan, TeleGeography's Senior Manager of Enterprise Research, will chair our 4th annual WAN Summit London October 18-19, presented by Capacity Conferences and TeleGeography.

Sep 28, 2016

A Funny Thing Happened On Our Way to WAN Summit Singapore

And just like that, our first WAN Summit Singapore is in the books.

Sep 23, 2016

Network Sourcing and Cost Considerations for WAN Designs

Senior Analyst Brianna Boudreau is heading to Orlando for the annual CAUCUS IT Procurement Summit October 12-14, 2016. She'll be delivering a presentation on Network Sourcing & Cost Considerations for WAN Designs on October 12. 

Brianna and moderator Robert Wright of Humana will discuss how corporate WAN managers decide which services meet their evolving network requirements while controlling costs.

Sep 21, 2016

The Best Tweets from WAN Summit Singapore

This week was big. We put another WAN Summit in the books, taking the show to Singapore for the first time ever.

Sep 20, 2016

IP Transit vs. Peering: How a Network of Networks is Built

What does the Internet look like? Perhaps you’ve heard it described as a veritable network of networks.

While this is true, as TeleGeography’s Senior Analyst Paul Brodsky explains, no single network is big enough to connect every single person and every single computer. So the question remains: how are we really staying connected?

Sep 14, 2016

TG Interview: Taking the WAN Summit to Singapore

After a successful three-year run in New York and London, next week the TeleGeography team heads to Singapore for the first-ever WAN Summit Singapore.

Aug 15, 2016

[Webinar]: Challenges and Opportunities for the WAN in Asia and the Pacific

In an exclusive sneak peek of our inaugural WAN Summit Singapore, TeleGeography's Greg Bryan hosted a webinar on August 23.

Greg touched on some of the most important questions faced by corporate network managers in Asia and the Pacific. If you manage a network in Asia and the Pacific or work closely with a team there - and you have 30 minutes - this webinar is essential listening.

Aug 8, 2016

SD-WAN Provider Facts for the Modern Network Specialist

Network specialists herald the software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) as the most significant advancement in corporate networks in years.

Here’s why: SD-WAN dynamically routes traffic among multiple connections based on the performance of each link and the priority of applications using the network.

Connections may include relatively expensive, high-performance MPLS VPN links, lower-cost dedicated internet access, or cheaper, “best efforts” business broadband service. Accordingly, SD-WAN dynamically optimizes connectivity cost and application performance. (More on that here.)