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Diving Deep into Submarine Cables: The Undersea Lifelines of Internet Connectivity

Kentik

Worldwide telecommunications began somewhere around 150 years ago, in 1850, with the first commercial international submarine cable between England and France. Fiber optics The submarine cables that move internet traffic around the world are made from silica glass fiber optic strands that most network engineers are likely familiar with.

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Is Lunchtime Over? Is it Time for Telcos to Give Content Providers the Bill?

Global Data

Summary Bullets: Telecommunications companies want webscale providers to contribute toward their data-intensive services delivered via their network for further infrastructure investment. Should big tech get their hands out of their pockets and look to contribute toward their data-hungry internet services?

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23 Good-To-Know Networking Acronyms and Abbreviations

CATO Networks

By choosing the best available path, SD-WAN provides better performance and reliability than broadband Internet. Keep in mind however, that unless SD-WAN is deployed as part of SASE, it cant support global connectivity, network optimization, WAN and Internet security, cloud acceleration, and remote users.

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New World, New Thinking: Why “The Box” Has Got To Go

CATO Networks

On-demand, self-service and just in time have become standard for the applications and services we use, when and where we want to use them. This is a key question in the evolution of cloud services for telecommunication companies, internet service providers (ISPs), cloud service providers (CSPs) and managed security service providers (MSSPs).

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2018 Networking Survey: The Curse of Complexity Continues

CATO Networks

They represented a cross-section of the IT market with telecommunications, computers & electronics, and manufacturing being the most popular sectors. More specifically, protecting the branch from Internet-borne threats is critical if businesses are to use broadband to improve cloud performance and reduce WAN costs.

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Visualizing the Digital Eclipse

Kentik

Analyzing the Eclipse’s Impact on Internet Traffic. As our fellow citizens ventured outside to watch the sun take second place, were enough of them off of the Internet to create a true digital eclipse? Graphing Internet Traffic. As many as 7.4 Millions more may have stayed in town but headed outside to see what they could see.

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Talking WAN Transformation and Managed Services with Virgin’s Network and Security Architect Frankie Stroud

CATO Networks

Before VA I was with Optus and a few other domestic telecommunications companies. Organizations on that journey to AWS, Azure, Google, you name it, or ones looking at more SaaS-type applications, can benefit from not backhauling through a datacenter environment before reaching out to those provider environments.

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