A quiet August? Not for sharing tech and telecom stories around the TeleGeography office.
Take a peek at what we’ve been reading over the last month, from thought pieces on macroeconomic forces impacting enterprise networks to mulling over subsea energy interconnectors, as one does.
Global disruptors highlight need for ‘collaborative resilience’ | Arelion
Notable TeleGeography Explains the Internet guest and Arelion Chief Evangelist Mattias Fridström recently penned this piece that considers how macroeconomic forces have disrupted enterprise networks in recent history.
A lot of items here will be relevant to our pod listeners: network security, AI, network sustainability, etc.
A bold plan takes shape to build the world’s largest subsea energy interconnector | Techspot
Our regularly scheduled trawling of the internet for cable stories was interrupted by this curious little nugget.
A group of entrepreneurs is proposing to build the world’s largest subsea energy interconnector, linking Europe and North America with three pairs of high-voltage cables. (It is technically a story about undersea cables. Just not the ones we’re used to writing about.)
According to this Techspot post, “The connection would transport renewable energy back and forth between continents, taking advantage of the sun’s daily migration across the sky.”
Shanghai to build citywide low-altitude communications network | China Daily
Nifty little tech story on Shanghai’s desire to build a “low‐altitude aerial intelligent network based on 5G-Advanced technologies.”
Hybrid system would create new ‘backbone’ for internet in space | Cornell Chronicle
And now something for the satellite-minded.
After you brush up on the basics, you might appreciate this story about a “new NATO-funded effort…[that] seeks to make the internet less vulnerable to such disruptions by rerouting its flow of information to space.”
SD-WAN vs MPLS: Battling for Network Dominance | Executives at the Edge
ICYMI, TeleGeography Senior Manager of Enterprise Research Greg Bryan recently visited MEF’s Executives at the Edge podcast. He chatted with host and MEF co-founder Pascal Menezes about the evolving landscape of enterprise networking as SD-WAN becomes the norm and SASE gains traction.
