TRENDING
COVID-19 PANDEMIC
CAUSES MASSIVE SHIFT
IN WORK STYLES
Service providers have faced huge demand as people across the
globe work from home during the Coronavirus pandemic. Gunter
Reiss, Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at A10 Networks,
explains what this means for businesses and how they can cope.
As the shelter-in-place orders spread
across the country and around the
world, it has placed a huge burden
on businesses of all sizes and the service
providers that serve them and millions of
their customers around the globe.
While a massive shift to working from
home is an obvious consequence of these
orders, it has likely taken most by surprise
as bandwidth requirements skyrocketed
within a few short weeks. At the very same
time, we are grappling with the reality of
schools being closed, in-person events being
cancelled and social distancing becoming
the new black. It has been a shock to say
the least.
How do businesses cope?
The global crisis is affecting organisations in
many different ways. We’re not dealing with
the more anticipated worldwide spikes in
Internet use caused by the World Cup or the
Olympics for which service providers can plan.
In fact, streaming services are being asked
to throttle their services back so the Internet
doesn’t ‘break’ now that consumers are
not only home working but home gaming
and watching programmes. And business
services like video conferencing and SaaS
applications are experiencing unprecedented
use for work, schoolwork and connecting
with others.
“
FOR BUSINESSES
FACING THESE
ISSUES, IT’S
CRITICAL
THAT YOUR
APPLICATION
SERVICES CAN
MEET THE NEW
LEVELS OF
DEMAND.
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