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ZTS and the Future of Work

We’ve long pointed to cloud adoption and local internet breakouts as key factors moving enterprises
toward ZTS over other security strategies.

But the impact of the pandemic has been palpable.

When asked to rank factors driving ZTS adoption, respondents who were in some stage of considering
or adopting ZTS ranked “increased remote work” the highest. One WAN manager from an industrial
company noted that they had tripled their remote workforce as a result of COVID and the company
seemed open to keeping many workers remote long-term.

And remote work isn’t going away. If anything, we anticipate it will only become a more hybrid experience
for knowledge workers. (I say this as I sit in TeleGeography’s DC office, my day full of both in-person and
virtual meetings.)

As for how the evolution of this hybrid work experience will impact networks of the future, we’ll have to
see what WAN managers tell us in our next round of surveys. More to come next year.

About the Author

Greg Bryan is the Senior Manager, Enterprise Research at
TeleGeography. He's spent the last decade and a half at
TeleGeography developing a range of pricing products and
reports about enterprise networks. He is a frequent speaker at
conferences about corporate wide area networks and enterprise
telecom services. He also hosts TeleGeography’s WAN Manager
Podcast.

Greg can be reached at [email protected] or through
TeleGeography’s website: https://www2.telegeography.com/

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