Dr. Ritesh Mukherjee is Senior Vice President and Chief Enterprise Officer at Inseego, on a project to digitize with 5G.
Companies around the world, such as British Petroleum, Nationwide, Dropbox, Salesforce, Deloitte, Twitter and others, allow a significant percentage of their painters to paint house paintings (WFH) at least two days a week. from (WFx) for long periods of time.
Even before quarantines and self-imposed isolation taught us the benefits of running remotely, a growing number of people had said goodbye to the concept of being tied to a desk. Tools like Skype, Facetime, Slack, Zoom, Google Hangouts, Teams, and many other apps were available before. These were used through road warriors and workers who stayed in the house from time to time. With millions of other people forced to stay in the house due to the pandemic, corporations have invested to improve the functionality of those equipment. by adding more licenses, switching to a cloud model, and adding more servers to your knowledge centers. However, the delight of the workers who leave home has remained the same as that of the road warriors. There has been no significant improvement in the WFH from a technological perspective.
Companies that employ classic WFH technologies provide workers with state-of-the-art programs they can use to collaborate such as Skype, Teams, Slack, etc. To access programs hosted in the company’s personal knowledge center, workers typically use a virtual personal network (VPN). This limits the use of the gadgets on which the VPN consumer downloaded. They will also have to manage and deal with connection issues similar to enabling and disabling the consumer on their own.
These VPN consumers create secure encrypted tunnels from the device through the employees’ home web connection to the corporate server, which especially slows down the functionality of the ultimate device. Directors of corporate netpaintings will have to troubleshoot consumer devices and will not be able to provide enterprise-grade solutions. This leads to a poor user experience, leading to delays in paintings and low morale. There are many other devices that reduce the web connection at home. There is no prioritization of corporate traffic between those devices, resulting in volatile connection issues. With other users like some other member of the circle of relatives running away from home or young people playing video games, percentage connections don’t work reliably.
5G has a viable option to host broadband connections. 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) provides the ability to deliver high-speed wireless broadband connections to homes with speeds similar to or even higher than stressed connections. It is expected to be the fastest developing. residential broadband segment and grow at a compound annual rate of 71%.
Companies can supply 5G Visitor Facility Apparatus (CPE) or a residential gateway to painters with their painting devices. These CPEs can be connected to 5G network paints to provide super-fast accessories and can also be connected to the home network to use the stressed accessory for redundancy. CPEs can be securely reconnected to the corporate knowledge center by tunneling using WireGuard, OpenVPN, or IPsec. These CPEs can broadcast a Business Service Set Identifier (SSID) to the home using Wi-Fi 6. Employee devices will connect to this SSID just as they do when the painter is in the paintings. The painter is now connected via a secure channel employing Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) and tunneling to his main workplace without having to deal with VPN clients. CPEs can also broadcast a guest SSID for non-commercial traffic. Corporate traffic obtained from the corporate SSID will take precedence over the guest SSID. This ensures that young people can continue to play without interfering with corporate video calls. These CPEs can split tunnels for local shipping.
Corporate network managers can remotely manage those 5G CPEs without having to communicate with users’ devices. They can allow integrations with RADIUS or Active Directory to authenticate users and devices through the commercial SSID. They can apply corporate policies to block traffic or unjustified sites and have visibility. in network connections, leading the company to provide enterprise-grade connections and responses to WFH employees.
Most of the 5G CPE that you have today have several of those purposes individually, it is time for a provider or any company to put this solution into effect, some of those CPE can also be used in remote places to connect ATMs, stores, ioT, production sites. and other small offices securely via Wi-Fi and secure tunnels without the need for specially designed or paved SD-WAN and SASE solutions. Road warriors can with those CPEs and use them anywhere.
Companies want to do more than just keep running equipment designed for the pre-WFx era. Although that equipment has been reused, it doesn’t provide the joy of being in the office. monthly emails about WFH ergonomic situations, snack boxes or DoorDash gift cards, subscriptions to remote yoga classes, or other engaging benefits. However, there is no replacement in the equipment or connections we use at home. redouble your efforts and provide WFH responses to enjoy working from home.
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