Hybrid workplace technology

Support remote workers with hybrid workplace technology

The hybrid workplace, it seems, is here to stay. Between remote workers, road warriors and mobile workforces, as many as 7 in 10 white-color employees now perform their jobs from home or on the road.¹

To manage this new reality, organizations need hybrid workplace technology that can keep workers productive and connected – no matter where they are or where they go. IT departments need solutions for securing employees’ personal devices as they connect to unsecured networks at home or on the road. Teams need tools that promote collaboration and enhance collaboration for workers who are spread out around the world. And organizations need networks that can deliver a superior and seamless user experience while simplifying management for network administrators.

Spectrum Enterprise can help. As a strategic partner to America’s largest businesses, Spectrum Enterprise offers an array of hybrid workplace technology and services to support the remote workforce while protecting the organization as well as data, users and devices.

Challenges of a hybrid workplace

The demands of a hybrid workplace present a number of challenges for enterprises.

Modernizing the network

As the workforce expands to multiple locations – many of them outside the corporate perimeter – networks must meet increasing bandwidth, latency management, security and application support demands. Remote workers need seamless access to critical IT resources both in on-premise data centers and in the cloud. High-speed access, optimized remote network performance, endpoint security, multifactor authentication and threat protection across all locations are essential.

Keeping pace with security risks

Distributed workers often access the network from personal devices and unsecured networks, increasing the size of the attack surface. Work-from-home environments frequently contain Internet of Things devices, video camera-enabled doorbells, smart TVs and virtual assistants that represent new points of attack for cybercriminals. Organizations must deploy hybrid workplace technology that can detect and thwart threats while ensuring personal and business data remain separate.

Ensuring high performance for cloud applications

For remote workers, access to cloud-based software and collaboration tools is essential. Consistent network performance and fast internet connections are critical to delivering the performance that workers need from cloud applications.

Achieving visibility into network activity

As workplaces and IT environments grow more distributed, security teams often lack comprehensive visibility into what’s happening on the network and where threats may exist. Working with disparate applications, multiple cloud platforms, and a variety of security solutions – each with their own dashboard – only adds more complexity to the difficult job of managing network security.

Hybrid workplace technology from Spectrum Enterprise

Spectrum Enterprise Managed Network Edge is a modular, all-in-one solution that allows IT teams to create and manage a secure remote access network. Delivered over the Cisco Meraki Platform, this hybrid workplace technology provides workers with an enhanced out-of-office experience while simplifying security policy management.

Managed Network Edge provides IT teams with visibility into network performance via an easy-to-use portal, allowing them to support remote teams with better insight into network utilization.

With Spectrum Enterprise’s hybrid workplace technology, you can:

• Achieve secure access for mobile professionals. Provide simple, software-based network access to workers at home or in the field. Traffic is authenticated and routed through the Managed Network Edge firewall via encrypted tunnels, delivering protection to wherever employees are working.
• Support work-from-home employees. An always-on gateway prioritizes business traffic and applications on local and home networks while securing access for multiple devices. As a portable and re-deployable hybrid workplace technology, the gateway includes WiFi to better meet the needs of the device or location.
• Unified security policy. As a cloud-based security service, Managed Network Edge enables policies to be automatically enforced to end users across the entire network, delivering greater visibility and application performance while supporting remote users with end-to-end analytics.

Additional technology for the hybrid

Hybrid workplace technology from Spectrum Enterprise also includes:

• Managed cloud security . Protect your extended network with a fully managed solution that delivers firewall and unified threat management (UTM) technology, antivirus, intrusion detection and prevention, event log management and VPNs to secure remote access connections.
• Spectrum Business Internet. This connectivity option supports the Internet needs of remote workers, delivering download speeds up to 1 Gbps, unlimited bandwidth usage and no speed throttling.
• Dedicated Fiber Internet. Offering dedicated Internet connectivity, this high-performance option provides symmetrical upload and download speeds and bandwidth up to 100 Gbps.
• Unified Communications. This hybrid workplace technology provides phone, video and messaging capabilities that are tailored to your workforce. Delivering AI-powered meeting tools, virtual whiteboards, web conferencing and more, Unified Communications from Spectrum Enterprise meets the requirements of a wide range of use cases.

Why customers choose Spectrum Enterprise

Spectrum Enterprise offers scalable, fiber technology solutions for the largest businesses and communications service providers in America. Our broad portfolio includes networking and high-bandwidth internet services, voice and unified communications technologies, and HDTV services for a wide range of use cases.

As a partner to our customers, our experts help design, deploy and manage solutions that meet unique technology requirements in a wide range of industries. From enterprises seeking the fastest commercial internet speed to governments implementing cloud-based security services and hotels deploying hospitality streaming solutions, our clients rely on Spectrum Enterprise to achieve success by deploying solutions that evolve and adapt as markets change and new opportunities arise.

FAQs

What is a hybrid workplace?

A hybrid workplace is one where employees may work in a central office, in branch offices, from home, on the road or from other locations outside the traditional office place.

What is hybrid workplace technology?

Hybrid workplace technology refers to the solutions that help employees stay productive, no matter where they work. Hybrid workplace technology includes connectivity solutions that provide access to high-speed Internet, IT resources and cloud applications. Hybrid workplace technology may also include communications and conferencing solutions to help employees stay connected to colleagues.
 

¹ Lydia Said and Jeffrey M. Jones, “Seven in 10 U.S. White-Collar Workers Still Working Remotely,” Gallup, May 17, 2021.