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Work from Home: Aryaka, Extreme, Intermedia Accommodate Telecommuter Wave

  • Written by James Anderson
  • March 20, 2020
A telecommuting "HOV lane" is one of the new solutions vendors have launched to mitigate the pandemic.

A telecommuting “HOV lane” is one of the new solutions vendors have launched to mitigate the global COVID-19 pandemic.

It’s old news to most of you that remote work has become the norm for corporate America since the U.S. declared a state emergency and various local governments implemented quarantine rules. Businesses have sent workers back to their houses and apartments en masse. KnowBe4, for example, on Wednesday authorized its 884 employees to start working from home and gave each employee $200 in extra compensation.

And while mitigating the idiosyncrasies of your new “co-workers” is already a struggle, connecting to your company’s network can also be a challenge.

A funny thing about quarantining is hearing your partner in full work mode for the first time. Like, I’m married to a “let’s circle back” guy — who knew?

— Laura Norkin (@inLaurasWords) March 19, 2020

According to Atlas VPN‘s data, U.S. VPN usage increased by 53% during the week of March 9-15 from the previous week. The same study suggested that VPN usage may increase even more, as Italian VPN usage most recently made a 112% week-over-week uptick. That makes for a crowded internet highway.

@AtlasVPN published data that shows a surge in #VPN usage due to #COVID19. These numbers will certainly go up as countries around the world practice #SocialDistancing to slow the spread. Our guess is #Netflix will be quite popular the next few months. https://t.co/YH6xqoNWWG pic.twitter.com/p2NkSVuYki

— Statista (@StatistaCharts) March 18, 2020

To that end, Aryaka Networks recently announced its new Secure Remote Access (SRA) solution, which gives employees an “on-ramp” onto their company’s VPN concentrators.

“Most organizations offer some type of remote access solution, but they were never designed for ‘peak capacity,’ meaning to scale for the present situation where employees or students are required to work from a location distant from their corporate HQ or university campus,” said Mario Vecchio, Aryaka’s senior vice president of Asia-Pacific.

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Aryaka’s David Ginsburg

David Ginsburg, Aryaka’s vice president of product and solutions marketing, said Aryaka’s customer base is widely distributed across various remote locations. Launching the remote access solution allows Aryaka customers to bring their workers onto a global backbone with improved performance. Ginsburg said many enterprises lack the VPN concentrator footprint required in today’s environment.

In previous months, a South Korean employee working for a multinational company would be able to connect to a concentrator in the Asia-Pacific region and work efficiently.

“You’d have pretty good performance because a very low percentage of the employees would be telecommuting,” Ginsburg told Channel Partners. “That’s no longer the case. These concentrators are becoming overburdened. They can’t bring up the capacity that quickly. Obviously the user experience suffers. The overall employee productivity suffers.”

Aryaka said in a news release that the SRA offering improves application performance and allows students to use VPN to more easily access university resources.

Other networking companies announced offerings that target the current crisis.

Extreme Networks announced a list of products and promotions designed to improve life for customers and partners. The vendor launched a HIPAA-compliant Wi-Fi 6 mesh network solution geared toward health care facilities. Extreme listed pop-up clinics, testing facilities and quarantine areas as places that the solution can support. Customers have the option of delaying their payment for network solutions until July 1.

Extreme also has made free cloud technical certification training available to partners and customers through July 20.

“Our support and professional services teams continue to be…

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One comment

  1. Avatar Kirill986 March 27, 2020 @ 7:31 am
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    The VPN usage should rise even more. Businesses are not prepared to handle such scenarios and VPNs are obviously necessary to handle any type of communication or work process done in between. Also, SMEs will probably be the biggest victims to this epidemic. Cool thing that companies like Atlas are giving away free premium subscriptions and Surfshark is giving away licenses to entire businesses to help handle the security of the data. Article at itgovernance says that workers from home are the weak-spots through where the cyber attacks may strike, so it is only a question of time until we may see some dire results.

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