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Jan 13, 2025 | 
blog.telegeography.com | Jon Hjembo
In November, we unveiled our new Market Connectivity Score (MCS) and dropped our first public rankings of the top ten most connected and fastest-growing cities in the world. Because we update the MCS quarterly, it's time to see how those rankings have changed. Let’s start with the fastest-growing cities for near-future connectivity infrastructure growth.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
blog.telegeography.com | Jon Hjembo
ICYMI: we recently launched a dynamic new tool called the Market Connectivity Score (MCS). The MCS is our answer to the question “Where is the next big hub going to be?” and pulls from our wide array of research areas to evaluate the health of more than 3,000 metropolitan markets worldwide. Today, let's take a brief look at three of the markets highlighted in the MCS: Frankfurt, Singapore, and São Paulo.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
blog.telegeography.com | Kristin Carlson |Brianna Boudreau |Jon Hjembo |Alan Mauldin
As a new year approaches, so does PTC—and our annual workshop on all things telecom. In January, Brianna Boudreau, Jon Hjembo, and Alan Mauldin will return to the conference stage to share fresh insights on pricing, interconnection, submarine cables, bandwidth, and more.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
blog.telegeography.com | Jon Hjembo
Our Data Center Research Service estimates that there are 24 metropolitan markets that have more than 1 million square feet of operational data center capacity and four-year CAGR of at least 10%. Nine of those 24 markets are in Asia and seven are in Europe. Even more extraordinary—four of the Asian markets are in India alone. Mumbai, New Delhi, Hyderabad, and Chennai have all seen commercial data center capacity growth of 15% or more since 2020.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
blog.telegeography.com | Jon Hjembo
The data center market is in the midst of an unprecedented shift that started—publicly at least—five years ago with the announced moratoria on new development in Singapore and Frankfurt. Those regulatory interventions highlighted the challenges the industry faces in securing sufficient power.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
blog.telegeography.com | Jon Hjembo
TeleGeography research groups bandwidth users into four categories: internet backbone providers, content providers, research and education (R&E), and enterprises and others. Although R&E is often overshadowed—in favor of content providers especially—it is foundational to the other sectors. R&E networks are communications networks dedicated to supporting research and educational communities. They are unique in their priorities; top R&E routes don’t always mirror top commercial internet routes.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
blog.telegeography.com | Kristin Carlson |Jon Hjembo
We often overlook how critical submarine cable networks are in the advancement of scientific innovation. Their seamless connectivity enables data-intensive collaboration across research and education institutions around the world. Next week, our Senior Research Manager Jon Hjembo and Ciena’s Brian Lavallée will dive into this topic through a live webinar: Big data. Big science. Big networks.
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May 1, 2024 | 
blog.telegeography.com | Jon Hjembo
To many people, the concepts of global network infrastructure and bandwidth markets are difficult to grasp. But to those who follow this sector, it's one of the most fundamental building blocks of the global economy. If you haven't heard of TeleGeography’s Transport Networks Research Service, it's one of our most popular research subscriptions. In short, this tool assesses the state of the global telecom capacity market—and we just finished updating it with tons of new data and analysis.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
blog.telegeography.com | Jon Hjembo
When it comes to the nature of exploration, there are typically a number of underlying forces at play, some positive and some negative. The “pioneering spirit” could be inspired by the excitement of new opportunities, or by the pressure of existing difficulties. The data center market happens to be dealing with both of those sentiments right now, with several factors driving it to new places. Let’s explore the APAC frontier, for example.
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
blog.telegeography.com | Greg Bryan |Jon Hjembo
We're back at it with episode three of our five-part podcast special that explains the nuts and bolts of the internet. You've come to the right place if you're looking to understand how all of those cat videos travel from the source to your phone. We explained in episode two how the internet is made of transport networks to carry data over (mostly) fiber optic wires distributed around the world.
