TeleGeography Explains the Internet

Today we answer our final, lingering question: What is a WAN? We’ll also hear from Brianna Boudreau, TeleGeography’s current SD-WAN guru.

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 me to talk cloud. We explain what it means to get something ”as-a-service,” hyperscalers, CDNs, and how companies get to the cloud.

Senior Research Manager Jon Hjembo was on hand to help us work through data center types, their defining features, and what happens inside these facilities. We talk about who owns these structures and how their geography informs the way the internet works.

One of the most important lessons from this entire series is that the vast majority of data is transmitted over physical wires, not over the air, via spectrum. In fact, for much internet traffic, the only part of the journey that is not on physical wires is between your device to your Wi-Fi router.

That’s right. We decided it was time to, quite literally, explain the internet. Our team is putting on their professor hats to bring you the ultimate five-part explainer special. We’ll be highlighting the nuts and bolts of how the industry works together to bring you the content you crave

Drawing upon his vast expertise in the Wi-Fi space, Tiago Rodrigues, CEO of the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), steps into the hot seat to outline the key issues in the wireless LAN.

Today we welcome Nokia’s Paul Unbehagen to the pod. Paul has a deep history in the networking world, so he approaches his role at Nokia—NE Americas CTO—from the perspective of a network engineer.

This week we welcome SmartCIC CEO Toby Forman to the show. Toby comes to us with a global perspective on the development of fixed wireless access and its potential as a disruptive technology in the enterprise connectivity space.

Netskope’s Joe DePalo joins the pod to help us understand how and why location matters in network security.

Ross Flynn of the Mobile Ecosystem Forum joins Greg to explain mobile advertising.