Why operators need to harden their consumer networks for a new normal

By Lynn Greiner BEFORE THE COVID-19 crisis, people accessed the internet using multiple technologies: mobile, home Wi-Fi, public Wi-Fi, fixed infrastructure – and across multiple networks. Now, access diversity has collapsed, reflecting the fact there's virtually no education or enterprise traffic, as so much of it has gone home. With so many people carrying on with a laptop on the kitchen table, traffic on the internet looks so much different than it did just a couple of months ago and to see how different, Waterloo-based network intelligence solutions provider Sandvine compared the period of March 16-April 19, 2020 with the...