TeleGeography Digest

June 2016

Live Webinar: Land Ho! Connecting Data Centers under the Sea

Join this 30-minute webinar as TeleGeography and Ciena discuss the impacts that shifts in private vs. Internet network bandwidth consumption are having on transoceanic DCI, and the technology and strategies that will keep both submarine and data center operators ahead of the curve when managing their traffic flows. Learn more now!

Research Roundup

Rising Tide: Content Providers' Investment in Submarine Cables Continues

Facebook, Microsoft, and Telefonica’s Telxius group announced they are investing in a new trans-Atlantic submarine cable. The MAREA cable will take a unique path from Virginia Beach, USA to Bilboa, Spain.

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Fixed or Flexible? That is the Question for Enterprise SIP Trunking

In comparing providers that offer SIP services with similar overall costs, you’ll find variation in the relative sizes of call path and metered calling charges that can have substantial implications for your total monthly cost. Selecting a plan that best fits these cost components to your traffic profile can help reduce the cost of SIP service.

Has Europe Seen the End of its Telecoms Merger Heyday?

The European Commission (EC) has blocked the proposed GBP 10.25 billion (USD 13.8 billion) acquisition of Telefonica’s UK cellular operator O2 by the Hong Kong-based group CK Hutchison. Yet it was a markedly different situation several years ago, when the EC gave the green light to a raft of mobile mergers.

WAN Summit

The Network That Ensures Your Inflight Meals are On Time
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Looking back on a couple of intensive days at the New York WAN Summit, one of the highlights was a presentation from airline services multinational Gate Group. In it, Garth Gray, the VP of Infrastructure Services, shared his unique business challenges and experience moving from MPLS to a hybrid WAN.

Healthcare Network Taps SD-WAN, Custom-Builds MPLS Core: Here’s Why
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Kris Kline from Kaiser Permanente was one of many network planners at the New York WAN Summit to talk about their migration to the cloud and implementing software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN). Kaiser's latest WAN evolution highlights some familiar objectives common to many organizations moving to a hybrid WAN.

Announcing the Inaugural WAN Summit Singapore

After a successful three-year run in New York and London, we're bringing the WAN Summit to Singapore. Join us on September 20-21, 2016 for our inaugural conference in Singapore. You can save 20% with our early bird special if you reserve your spot by July 15th, 2016.