Author: Mattias Fridström

Chief Evangelist

The Rise of Hybrid Networks

If the public Internet could speak in its own defense, it would likely quote Mark Twain’s London 1897 remark, “The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” For the past decade or two, network solution vendors and others peddling various enterprise services have all declared the public Internet is broken, or worse, dead. Those […]

The Internet Backbone Spoils Us

It’s hard to imagine life without the internet, but in all reality, it wasn’t born until 1991, and that version is unrecognizable compared to what the internet has evolved to as we know it today. Connectivity drives interactions and innovation impacting nearly every aspect of the world. We wake up and open Facebook or fire […]

Let there be (intelligent) light

As businesses worldwide keep on investing in technical infrastructure and innovative tools to build smart, connected organizations, the demand for capacity has reached new levels. The result is growing pressure on the fiber optic backbone networks of service providers and internet content providers alike. To help meet the demands of digital transformation, carriers will need […]

When Choosing a Cloud On-Ramp, Go for Simplicity

Cloud is king. Today, about 95 percent of enterprises have adopted cloud computing strategies and more than 50 percent are making cloud their primary IT strategy. But there’s moving your data and applications to the cloud, and then there’s connecting to the cloud to access those applications and data. Last December I attended the Gartner […]

AI, ML and MEF

In November, Telia Carrier attended MEF19 in Los Angeles for a joint Proof of Concept demo together with Infinera and CenturyLink. The focus of this year’s PoC showcase was to demonstrate the use of different aspects of the MEF 3.0 framework to create high-value managed connectivity-based services. In our joint demo, “AI/ML and Policy Driven […]

Debunking connectivity myths in Las Vegas

The dramatic shift within Enterprise networking over recent years has created a new world of truths. Next week, we’re attending the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies conference in Las Vegas to debunk some common myths about connectivity (watch the trailer above!). From our position as the world’s #1 Internet backbone, I believe we […]