Podcast: Telia Carrier, A pioneer of the internet now ranked # 1 in connectivity

Telia Carrier is a global operator with over 2,000 customers in over 120 countries. Mattias Fridström, vice president and chief evangelist at Telia Carrier goes on to tell Don Witt of The Channel Daily News, a TR publication, how Telia Carrier, having started in the 90s, was a pioneer of the internet. Mattias Fridström Mattias continues by explaining what big challenges Telia Carrier is currently seeing in the industry as well as some of the emerging trends Telia Carrier is expecting to see in 2020? Mattias provides an excellent overview of the Proof of Concept demonstration Telia Carrier was participating in alongside Infinera and CenturyLink at MEF19. Lastly, Mattias comments on the intercarrier standard being worked on by MEF and how it will impact the efficiencies of the internet and intercarrier cooperation. Inter-dependence defines the global Internet. Content needs an audience and vice-versa. The Telia Carrier job is to bring them together. They let the world’s largest operators, content providers and organizations access-all-areas with their IP transit services. They transport 12 billion minutes of voice per year.  They let people roam like they never left home thanks to their global IPX backbone. They connect high-volume, business-critical content and applications to media-hungry audiences all over the world. Their network now stretches 65,000 kms, linking 300+ PoPs. Plugging into their global backbone connects you directly to more than 2,000 Wholesale customers in 120 countries. And their transit customers announce more than half the routes in the global routing table, advertising more address space than any other carrier. Telia Carrier has always ranked among the top carriers in the world, and in recent years they've grabbed the top ranking. For more information, go to: https://www.teliacarrier.com/