In the Internet may fail in the case that the majority of working people will have to work from home because of the coronavirus, writes Bloomberg with reference to the views of the respondents. The Agency reminds that more and more companies worldwide recommend staff stay home if they have the opportunity. The first "large-scale experiment" had to do with Chinese companies. In the US, for example, 42 million people unable to perform the duties remotely is 29% of the workforce, indicates Bloomberg.
"the Weakest element in the chain, where it may be overload, this home broadband network. People will face with congestion, both on road where the speed drops from 96 km/h to 32 km/h", — explained the expert networking consulting company Gartner Lisa pierce. The biggest consumers of traffic are popular video services and social networks such as Netflix, YouTube, Facetime and Skype, said Recon Analytics analyst Roger Entner. "Video and so is 70% of all traffic on the network. But if you add making a video call to all the shows that children watch, because the schools are closed, can become a problem if everyone trying to connect at the same time," — said the expert.
Homes and areas that are connected by cables with low bandwidth copper (not fiber optic) wires, will be affected first. Families that use one wifi signal at the same time go to the network or connect to the Internet and tablets will experience delays, says Bloomberg.
the Main problems are the connection drop, slow loading and lowering the video quality, specifies Agency. The degree of problems will differ from region to region and time of day. Such conditions are familiar to the areas where snowfalls people regularly have to stay home, the Agency added.
But if we are talking about work services that not every company is ready for the big flow of requests from the outside, writes Bloomberg. Usually some part of the power is laid on the remote work, but a wide range of working offsite employees can lead to permanent problems. Some companies use the internal VPN network in this case, but their creation can take from several hours to several weeks, the Agency quotes the words of experts.
Operators AT&T and Verizon, who were interviewed by Bloomberg, promised that employees and customers will have access to the Internet where he will need them. The company explained that the traffic volume is not necessarily changed, just his way will be different: it will be less to come out of offices and more residential areas.
