TeleGeography Explains the Internet

Our guest today is Rutger Bevaart, CEO and Co-founder of GNX. Rutger has a deep history in the telecom industry and founded GNX to streamline internet sourcing, which is undoubtedly a pain point for many listeners.

We discuss the shift away from MPLS and toward the internet and how that transition can bring many benefits to an enterprise; however, it also comes with complexity and new challenges, especially in sourcing and managing internet links worldwide. 

Our guest today is Marcel Stadler, Product Manager of SD-WAN at Open Systems. Marcel joins our semi-annual conversation on SD-WAN; he outlines how managed SD-WAN providers like Open Systems approach these issues with their enterprise customers.

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 repeatedly, 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, scoring them on a scale of 0 to 100 across nine key categories.

This week's guest is resident data center expert Jon Hjembo. He explains how we developed the Market Connectivity Score and reveals what initial rankings tell us about the interconnectivity landscape and metro areas to watch, like Kuala Lumpur.

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