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2 months ago | 
blog.telegeography.com | Jayne Miller |Greg Bryan
We haven't been getting enough fiber here at TeleGeography Explains the Internet, but we're about to change that. Nutritional jokes aside, this week, we welcome Todd Chapman, a veteran in fiber development, to the hot seat. Todd walks us through the ins and outs of Layer 0 of the physical infrastructure underlying data transmission. Some classic explaining of the internet.
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2 months ago | 
blog.telegeography.com | Jayne Miller |Greg Bryan
Welcome back, TeleGeography Explains the Internet listeners. We took a nice long break for the holidays, and we've returned refreshed with another batch of telecom conversations for your feed. Our first guest of 2025 is Fahim Sabir, Director of Digital Solutions at Colt. Fahim joined us to clarify the often confusing world of Network as a Service (NaaS).
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
blog.telegeography.com | Greg Bryan
For TeleGeography Explains the Internet to truly explain the internet, sometimes we have to get into where your internet comes from. Internet sourcing for those in the know. For that, our guest today is Rutger Bevaart, CEO and Co-founder of GNX. As you'll hear in the episode, Rutger has a deep history in the telecom industry and founded GNX in order to streamline internet sourcing, which is no doubt a pain point for many listeners.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
blog.telegeography.com | Greg Bryan
There's a common theme we encounter here at TeleGeography Explains the Internet. It goes like this: the enterprise WAN has undergone significant changes in the past several years to align the network with digital transformation, cloud adoption, rising bandwidths, and cost control. These changes—while making the network more resilient and affordable—can introduce new challenges in complexity and management. Our guest today is Marcel Stadler, Product Manager of SD-WAN at Open Systems.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
blog.telegeography.com | Greg Bryan
Where are we building data centers? Why? What markets are primed for interconnectivity glory? Which ones are getting left in the dust? We've heard these questions again and again. So we did what any reasonable telecom data provider would do: we developed an interactive tool to rank the world's best-connected and fastest-growing cities, scored on a scale of 0-100 across nine key categories. Honestly, you would have done the same thing if you were in our shoes.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
blog.telegeography.com | Greg Bryan
Last week on the pod, we shared what network managers need to know about AI and machine learning. This week, we're back on the AI beat, specifically looking at how it can support corporate network automation. Per usual, we had a little help. Our guest today is Jamie Pugh, CTO at Globalgig. Jamie joined the show not only to ponder all things automation but also to discuss enterprise network orchestration in the era of an increasingly complex WAN.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
blog.telegeography.com | Greg Bryan
It's 2024. We obviously had to do an AI episode of the pod. And for that, we welcome our guest Michael Wynston, Director of Network & Security Architecture at Fiserv. Michael is the first esteemed member of TeleGeography Explains the Internet's four-timers club. Indeed, as I'm sure you've guessed, he's back on the show for the fourth time. And this time around he's here to help us better understand how AI is developing as a network management tool.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
blog.telegeography.com | Greg Bryan
For our next episode of TeleGeography Explains the Internet, we look to the sky. Our guest is Sal Salamone, Managing Editor of Network Computing magazine. Sal joined me to discuss the emerging market for direct-to-device satellite communications. As we do with any good explainer, we define the market and then get into specific use cases. Sal walks me through what's on the horizon as well as what's driving the general renewed interest in satellite communications.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
blog.telegeography.com | Greg Bryan
TeleGeography Explains the Internet is back from summer break. We return a little older, a little wiser, and you can bet that we've done the summer reading. To that end, we're starting this season with a classic TeleGeography Explains deep dive. The topic? U.S. telecom law! Telecom is a regulated industry, and U.S. law holds complexities that impact what happens across the larger ecosystem.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
blog.telegeography.com | Jayne Miller |Greg Bryan
Grab your headphones, we've got a podcast recommendation. TeleGeography Senior Manager of Enterprise Research Greg Bryan recently visited MEF's Executives at the Edge podcast. He chatted with host and MEF co-founder Pascal Menezes about the evolving landscape of enterprise networking as SD-WAN becomes the norm and SASE gains traction. Listen in as the pair assesses how MPLS is declining (yet persisting) and why NaaS is generating buzz.
