Category: Enterprise networking

Turning the energy crisis into opportunity

With energy prices escalating across the globe, most businesses are having to pay more for the energy they use. The impact of that on businesses is clear: weakening margins, reducing their ability to invest, and in some cases a need to streamline in order to survive. But how are those escalating prices impacting the executives at organizations?

Segment routing for low-latency enterprise Ethernet

To satisfy the need for low-latency, diverse Ethernet services on a global scale, we’ve implemented segment routing based on the lowest latency paths across our multi-vendor network at no added cost to our enterprise customers.

Time to ride the wavelengths?

Today the networks that make up the public internet, including our own, enable more traffic than ever before to traverse the globe to its destination.  The low latency, high bandwidth, and reliable Ethernet/MPLS based networks make it easy for companies to create the connections they need to reach customers and service providers they need, such […]

Building your core network

It is the 21st century, the number of people on Earth is reaching 8 billion, and we are experiencing the network connectivity’s flowering time connecting the entire planet. In parallel, we are going through many challenges, like pandemics, energy crises and instable economies. Organizations are becoming more aware and clearer in defining their needs when building a core network, focusing predominantly on areas like optimal bandwidth, critical connectivity moments, level of security needed, […]

Keeping telehealth in great shape

If you work in the medical and healthcare industries, you will be all too familiar with how telehealth services have transformed the services you can offer patients. Thanks to advancements in connectivity, experts in rare procedures and conditions from across the globe can even be brought together virtually to consult with patients and share knowledge […]

Cyber security trends in the Financial Sector

Companies in the financial sector see the network as a significant security threat.  It’s easy to see why, with both banking and financial services (FS) businesses suffering a huge number of security incidents in the last 12 months – including multiple DDoS attacks – often accompanied by ransom demands and extortion. 

Yet again in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant

Telia, through its networking division Telia Carrier, have once again been recognized in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Network Services, Global*. Each year, the analyst and advisory firm evaluates global network providers based on completeness of vision and ability to execute. To be included is a rigorous exercise: service providers need to have a global network […]

Four telecoms predictions for 2021

In an article in Capacity, our Chief Evangelist, Mattias Fridström shared what the events of 2020 will mean for the telecoms community in 2021. The original article is found here.   Four telecoms predictions for 2021 shaping the new normal The year 2020 has been a biblical one that has seen a global pandemic sweep across […]

Internet as the underlay for enterprise networking

In 2020, Covid-19 drove remote working and cloud adoption, overhauling traffic patterns in the WAN. In parallel, SD-WAN enabled network buyers to source their WANs differently. With MPLS connectivity contracts coming due, many CIOs are looking at transitioning from MPLS WANs to hybrid or Internet-based underlays for WAN services. Having the right Internet underlay is […]

The corporate WAN – it’s time to transform

Our newest report has found that corporate WANs are not delivering on their promises in a number of key areas, with security in particular the biggest pain point, alongside service flexibility and supplier performance. 

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 Future of Network Procurement

As an IT procurement professional, you handle the sourcing of complex technology solutions that are key to the future success of the business. And network purchases represent one of the most complex product categories you are responsible for. Here at Telia Carrier, we understand the challenges that you face. As a global connectivity provider, it’s […]