TeleGeography Explains the Internet TeleGeography

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.