Stealth CEO: Asymmetric broadband speeds cause strain during work from home efforts

With millions of employees now working from home due to COVID-19, asymmetric broadband offerings are a chokepoint for some business applications. Shrihari Pandit, the CEO of Stealth Communications, said that in addition to slower upstream speeds on DSL or cable broadband services, work from home (WFH) efforts have also been hampered by multiple users in a household using a single broadband connection for gaming, video streaming, video conferencing and remote learning.  "What we've seen is some difficulty in terms of making that successful. When they work from home, they try to run all their work applications. What the corporate IT departments are finding as they start troubleshooting is that home connections are mostly asymmetric and that's creating a strain, because a lot of these business applications require symmetrical connectivity."