We're back on the AI beat, specifically looking at how it can support corporate network automation.

Our guest today is Jamie Pugh, CTO at Globalgig. Jamie joined the show to ponder automation and discuss enterprise network orchestration in the era of an increasingly complex WAN.

We had to do an AI episode of the pod. For that, we welcome Michael Wynston, Director of Network and Security Architecture at Fiserv. He's here to help us understand how AI is developing as a network management tool.

For our next episode, we look to the sky. Our guest is Sal Salamone, Managing Editor of Network Computing magazine. Sal joins to discuss the emerging market for direct-to-device satellite communications. 

TeleGeography Explains the Internet examines U.S. telecom law. Greg is joined by Jeff Long, a private practice attorney with broad experience in the data center and telecom industry. 

Over the past five weeks, we've endeavored to explain precisely how data moves around the world, covering:

Today, we answer our final, lingering question: What is a WAN? Brianna Boudreau, TeleGeography's current SD-WAN guru, joins us to explain.

You may have heard a popular saying: There is no cloud, only other people’s computers. 

To explain how it works, Senior Research Manager Patrick Christian joins us to talk cloud. We explain what it means to get something "as-a-service," hyperscalers, CDNs, and how companies get to the cloud.

More from this series:

What is the Internet? https://blog.telegeography.com/what-is-the-internet

What is a Transport Network? https://blog.telegeography.com/what-is-a-transport-network

What Are Data Centers? https://blog.telegeography.com/what-are-data-centers

What is a WAN? https://blog.telegeography.com/what-is-a-wan

How and where do networks meet and exchange traffic with each other? How do they access their destinations?

Senior Research Manager Jon Hjembo helps us understand data center types, their defining features, and what happens inside these facilities. We discussed who owns these structures and how their geography informs how the internet works.

More from this series:

What is the Internet? https://blog.telegeography.com/what-is-the-internet

What is a Transport Network? https://blog.telegeography.com/what-is-a-transport-network

What is the Cloud? https://blog.telegeography.com/what-is-the-cloud

What is a WAN? https://blog.telegeography.com/what-is-a-wan

We explore the physical transport networks behind this seemingly invisible, omnipresent information superhighway. And we get a little help from TeleGeography's own Paul Brodsky, Peter Wood, and Lane Burdette.

More from this series:

What is the Internet? https://blog.telegeography.com/what-is-the-internet

What Are Data Centers? https://blog.telegeography.com/what-are-data-centers

What is the Cloud? https://blog.telegeography.com/what-is-the-cloud

What is a WAN? https://blog.telegeography.com/what-is-a-wan

What is the internet? Simply put, the internet is a network of computers.

Computers can only understand two things: on and off. Everything that we do on the internet is in binary—a series of 1s and 0s representing on and off—which gives instructions to your computer to do all the amazing things it does.

This means that the very bottom of the internet is a system for sending those 1s and 0s over wires (or spectrum in some cases). Whatever you do on the internet—email, videos, chats—the information is translated into that binary by your devices and then transmitted via packets.

We cover this process and lots more in the first episode of our five-part special to literally explain the internet:

What is a Transport Network? https://blog.telegeography.com/what-is-a-transport-network

What Are Data Centers? https://blog.telegeography.com/what-are-data-centers

What is the Cloud? https://blog.telegeography.com/what-is-the-cloud

What is a WAN? https://blog.telegeography.com/what-is-a-wan

Drawing upon his vast expertise in the Wi-Fi space, Tiago Rodrigues, President and CEO of the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), joins us in defining the key issues in the wireless LAN. This episode considers Wi-Fi 6, 6E, and 7 developments, OpenRoaming™ that allows seamless connection across different Wi-Fi networks, and Wi-Fi’s role in emerging solutions like NaaS.

We also discuss the digital divide and how to best use the limited resource of spectrum to ensure connectivity in our increasingly digital world.