The Speed of Information

How fast does light travel in a fiber optic cable?

Your high school physics teacher probably told you that light travels at 186,000 mi/sec. While this is true in a vacuum, light slows down in a cable. Our fiber optic expert Paul Brodsky crunched some numbers with us to get a better sense of how fast info is speeding your way.

Pricing the Internet

• Got 15 minutes? We’ve got a ton of WAN pricing and cloud connectivity trends to share. Patrick Christian relays key findings on MPLS IP VPN, hybrid WAN, and cloud connectivity services.
• We also collected a few recent pricing presentations. Benchmarking, bandwidth trends, IXP cost trends, etc. It's all here.
• Catch our monthly Spotlight? Brianna Boudreau dug into price erosion, explaining the many reasons bandwidth prices keep dropping.
• While we're talking pricing, you can now download a free market summary from our Enterprise Pricing Service.

Trending Now

• Fact: globally, demand for international bandwidth increased at a rate of 45% in 2016.
• Our trends master Pete Bell took an in-depth look at Poland's telecoms market. (Poland boasts one of Europe's largest markets, worth a whopping $10.5 billion in 2016.)
• Dear submarine cable map enthusiasts: did you solve the puzzle in this year's map? We finally revealed the answer on our blog.
• Is Altice on your radar? Maybe they should be. This TeleGeography Trends post walks through the timeline of the company's success in the U.S.
• Big news: the WAN Summit is headed to Dubai this year. Get the details and sign up for updates on the WAN Summit site.

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