Making Home Internet Work for Business Applications In the spring of 2020, millions of workers in America were suddenly asked to work from home if possible. Of those who were employed and didn’t work from home already, 57.7% reported that they had recently begun working from home in April 2020. Almost overnight, the number of remote workers went from 4.7 million to an estimated 85 million. This is stressing networks, application providers, and IT teams like yours who need to optimize these workers’ productivity. Home internet connections that were once a desert from 8am to 5pm are now flooded with Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Bluejeans, Office365, email, and VOIP traffic. In truth, the trend was already toward working from home. The number of remote workers grew 44% over the

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