On 12/Mar/20 21:37, Jared Mauch wrote:
I’m expecting that despite the usual game and download/streaming events, the baseline usage during the daytime is going to tick up significantly eating into network margin. Hopefully everyone has your upgrades on order due to the aforementioned lead-time issues. Hopefully everything is back to normal in 4-6 weeks.
On this side of the world, no major policies yet to force staff to work from home. But we are currently facing plenty of power generation shortages in South Africa specifically, and while offices have generators and such, most homes do not. So the problem with working from home is some people won't be able to until they either install alternative power sources or national power generation normalizes. Over the years, we've built a myriad of pfSense-based OpenVPN servers across several countries and cities so staff can always connect to the closest one when traveling or working from home. Traffic flow is non-split, and because they've been upgraded almost every year, we don't anticipate load issues if more people are out of the office. We've reduced reliance on internal VoIP PABX systems for conference calls since dumping WebEx and going Zoom nearly 2 years ago. Everyone knows how to use it, and we use it rather frequently, so folk can still have their meetings as usual. Mark.