For Employees Remotely Accessing their Head Office

Even though the desks are empty, accessing  on-premises applications and tools requires more bandwidth – and higher availability – than ever before. It’s time to consider how your network is going to support the “new normal”.

The Client – A boutique architectural firm with 40 employees charging billable hours.

The Problem – Where internet access bandwidth needed only to support email, web traffic, the odd conference call and a few remote users accessing on-premises applications and files, Covid-19 has turned the head office into a Data Centre – and the office’s internet connection couldn’t keep up.

When Covid-19 hit, this architecture firm client focused on enabling employees to work from their homes. Each employee was given VPN access and some brought their work machines home. But one oversight meant that those employees would now have to access on-premises applications through a VPN, over the public Internet, and by way of the office’s internet connection. The need for VPN licenses was addressed, but the need for sufficient bandwidth to support those VPN licenses hadn’t been considered.

Simply put, the office’s connection couldn’t handle the “new normal”….