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Oct 17, 2024 | 
blog.telegeography.com | Patrick Christian |Alan Mauldin
Competition between the United States and China continues to be a hot topic. Take The Economist, which recently published America v China: who controls Asia’s internet? While this piece did a great job highlighting the impact of geopolitical tensions on telecom infrastructure throughout Asia, my colleague Alan Mauldin and I want to expand on this coverage by offering updated data on two important areas of the story: cloud and cables.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
blog.telegeography.com | Kristin Carlson |Patrick Christian
Another year, another African Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF) keynote presentation for Senior Research Manager Patrick Christian. His 2024 African Network Geography Update explored global network trends, as well as African bandwidth trends, interconnection hub trends, and end-user demand. There was a special focus on Kinshasa, where this year’s AfPIF conference was held. What are the best-connected hubs in Africa? Where are new and planned submarine cables landing?
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
blog.telegeography.com | Kristin Lee |Patrick Christian
There’s a new conference joining the Datacloud event series next month: Datacloud APAC. Join us May 6-7, 2024 in Singapore for APAC’d agenda featuring numerous thought leaders from the region’s digital infrastructure community. Key discussion topics will include AI, site selection, capital flow, green technologies, and more.
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Apr 4, 2024 | 
blog.telegeography.com | Patrick Christian
Today, I'm breaking down three fundamental components of cloud networks. Cloud Regions. Regions are territories (generally, a metro area) that comprise one or multiple cloud zones. Cloud Zones. These are typically individual data centers in a geographic region or on a campus. A local zone is an extension of a cloud region that offers a subset of standard cloud services that tend to be more latency sensitive. Local zones are accessible at cloud on-ramp locations. On-Ramps.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
blog.telegeography.com | Patrick Christian
Globally, 23 new cloud regions were launched in 2023. Let’s break that down by region. Which region added the most? And which regions contributed zero? Europe: 8Europe added the most new cloud regions in 2023, with eight being launched (up from seven in 2022). Middle East: 6The generally underserved Mideast market has been active in cloud infrastructure development for the past couple of years. Six new cloud regions were launched in 2023, second only to Europe.
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
blog.telegeography.com | Greg Bryan |Patrick Christian
Welcome back to our five-part podcast special that seeks to demystify the internet. Our last episode focused on data centers, but we didn’t get into what happens on the rows and rows of servers you would find in those facilities. So today we're explaining the cloud. What is the Cloud? You may have heard a popular saying: There is no cloud, only other people’s computers. I'd also add: other people’s wires connecting those computers. This maxim is perfectly true.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
blog.telegeography.com | Patrick Christian
Many retail service providers, such as mobile operators, MVNOs, and cable broadband providers, rely heavily on wholesale carriers to transport and terminate their customers’ international calls. Wholesale carriers terminated approximately 257 billion minutes of traffic in 2022, down 5% from 2021. Wholesale traffic declined at an average rate of 1% per year over the past ten years, compared to a -2% CAGR for overall traffic.
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Oct 16, 2023 | 
blog.telegeography.com | Kristin Lee |Patrick Christian
When Senior Research Manager Patrick Christian returned to the African Peering and Interconnection Forum this year, he did not come empty-handed. Tucked into his suitcase—or, more accurately, safely stored in the cloud—was Patrick’s keynote presentation, a brand new African Network Geography Update. Watch the recording below to explore global network trends, African bandwidth trends, localized content growth, and end-user demand.
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Sep 18, 2023 | 
blog.telegeography.com | Patrick Christian
Last week, I presented the latest TeleGeography data on Asian cloud data centers through a live webinar with Ciena. Let's talk through the first section of my presentation, which maps out the region’s current cloud data center and cloud service provider landscape. I'll also share a link to download my slides and watch a recording of the discussion. At this time, there are over 90 active cloud regions throughout West, East, and South Asia.
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Sep 8, 2023 | 
blog.telegeography.com | Kristin Lee |Patrick Christian
After a three-year dip, the pace of cloud region expansion is accelerating, with close to 50 planned regions in 2023 and beyond. Asia is the global leader with the most cloud data centers—more than the U.S. and Europe combined—with key infrastructure projects to watch. Join TeleGeography Senior Research Manager Patrick Christian and Ciena's Brian Lavallée on Tuesday, September 12 at 11:00 a.m. ET for a live discussion covering the latest data on Asian cloud data centers.
