Remote work has pushed many companies' WANs and VPNs to their limits, which is why admins often postpone the rollout of important updates and patches. They need new software distribution solutions to keep all devices up to date without overwhelming their infrastructures.

The solution to performance problems when distributing software to remote clients is not more and thicker cables, but rather a reduction in the load on WAN and VPN connections through modern endpoint management with cloud and P2P technology.

The months of the pandemic were an enormous challenge for IT administrators because very few companies were prepared to introduce home offices for large parts of their workforce. In order to enable office workers to work from home, they had to purchase mobile devices and introduce modern communication and collaboration tools within a very short space of time. They also had to deal with many additional support requests due to the new devices, applications and processes.

Home office has now become a common practice and it is foreseeable Philippines Phone Number Database that many employees will not return to their office workplace permanently. Administrators therefore need new concepts and solutions for the distribution of software packages, as their existing infrastructures are hardly able to cope with the changed requirements. Even before the pandemic, for example, 81 percent of employees complainedThe rollout of updates, patches or new versions of applications and operating systems slows down their WAN connections.

Sharp increase in WAN and VPN usage
To prevent software packages from clogging up the lines, administrators have often reserved a fixed portion of the WAN bandwidth for day-to-day business data traffic and kept the rest free for software distribution. This static allocation has always been problematic because the capacities reserved for updates were either not fully utilized or were too small for the rollout of large packages such as Windows updates. Before the pandemic, only a few updates were usually sent over the WAN connection because only a few employees worked remotely and the updates for branches and subsidiaries were initially sent to local update servers. Only from there was the rollout to the individual end devices.

In the new working world, however, such hierarchical update infrastructures provide little relief because most end devices are located outside the company network. They all obtain their software packages via the WAN connection from a server in the company network - even small updates can quickly overload the lines if they are distributed to thousands of end devices in parallel.


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