612: Lightyear Considers the State of Connectivity

We're pumped to have Dennis Thankachan, Co-Founder and CEO of Lightyear, back on TeleGeography Explains the Internet.

This time around, we discuss their State of Connectivity Report, which dovetails nicely with many of the issues we research here at TeleGeography. (Perhaps this read is a perfect companion to our State of the Network? A match made in heaven, etc.)

In this episode, we first discuss how Lightyear has seen network prices react to global inflation, in some cases bucking the very long-term trend that telecom prices always go down. We also talk about point-to-point service in the enterprise network and how DWDM is emerging as a more common product for enterprise customers. 

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