A Reference Architecture for the Distributed Workforce

Posté sur: 15/04/2020  

As businesses around the world adapt to the changing dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for social distancing has unleashed an unprecedented shift toward remote and teleworking, creating a mass exodus of employees moving from branch offices to home offices.

For IT departments this shift is creating an entirely new set of challenges. The primary challenge is connecting a distributed, remote workforce to business-enabling applications and services residing in the data center and the cloud. Some users require access to VoIP systems, virtual desktops and video conferencing that require fast and highly reliable network connections.

Over the past few weeks, as this shift has moved from possibility to reality, Adam Fuoss and Chris DeHoust have had a series of discussions with customers about how to best meet these changing organizational goals. They’ve taken these requirements into account and have compiled a reference architecture that allows for non-SD-WAN and SD-WAN users alike to connect to applications and services remotely. In their blog they dig into this architecture in more depth.

Read the full blog to find out more about how

  • Remote users need reliable access to on-network applications (Data Center and IaaS)
  • Remote users need secure and direct access to cloud services (SaaS)
  • For some remote users, real-time applications have unique requirements (Voice, Video, VDI)
  • For some remote users, high-throughput applications require additional performance (Software Development, Large Data Applications, Medical Imaging)

Given the need to rapidly deploy, they’ve focused on an architecture that heavily leverages software and cloud computing wherever possible to connect remote users and to configuring regional cloud hubs and data centers.

Please contact your local Exclusive Networks Account Manager to find out more about how the Silver Peak SD-WAN solution can help in building an architecture that allows for non-SD-WAN and SD-WAN users alike to connect to applications and services remotely.