{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Signed","title":"You’re Paying for the Same Network Twice","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":7917,"description":"You’re paying for your network in ways you don’t see. Most teams don’t catch it until the bill shows up.\n\nTraffic leaves the cloud for inspection, then gets sent back in. Every step adds cost. Most teams never map the full path, so it goes unnoticed.\nMax Clark sits down with Doug Houghton from Alkira to break down how double egress happens, why costs can spike by 300x, and how these decisions quietly lock you into inefficient infrastructure.\nIf you’re responsible for network or cloud spend, this is the kind of problem you only catch after it’s already costing you.\nWhat We Get Into\nWhat We Mentioned\nCloud egress pricing models\nZscaler architecture and traffic inspection flow\nSD-WAN design tradeoffs\nMulti-cloud networking complexity\nAbout Doug Houghton\nDoug Houghton is Director of Global Channels at Alkira, where he works with enterprise teams designing and scaling multi-cloud network architectures. His focus is on helping organizations navigate the cost, complexity, and tradeoffs that come with modern cloud and network infrastructure.\nConnect with Doug: https://www.linkedin.com/in/douglas-houghton-9b77882/\nLearn more about Alkira: https://www.linkedin.com/company/alkiranet/\n\nAbout Signed\nThe IT market is built for sellers, not buyers.\nSigned is the podcast for the buyers. Host Max Clark, CEO of ITBroker.com, sits down with CIOs, CFOs, operators, and founders who’ve lived inside real enterprise tech deals — the ones who can tell you what actually determined whether the deal worked, not what the deck promised.\nNew episodes weekly. An ITBroker.com podcast.\nFull Transcript","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/d8NGarPLhvklmJcOQEYdHcKCmSM85HfY2AEspyWoL-M/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82NzJl/MzE1NTFmNzgzMjVk/NTdhOTc4ZGU2YWYx/Zjc5Ny5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}