Since the beginning of the pandemic, we have been facing a hard time connecting to different people, may it be work, education, and other economic services. And the main doubt of the society is can our internet providers support our needs in these trying times.

It has been a challenge up until now to our internet service providers (or ISPs) across the world. From the smallest technical problems to different calamities that strike, and to the people’s complaints this has been a huge concern, the way of development to the different sectors that lack access to these same strong, low-cost infrastructures.

The current challenges brought by this pandemic have opened a large scale hindrance on broadband home internet issues across the world, thus creating an impact that gradually expands far beyond just limitations to scrolling our social media platforms or watching streaming videos. These broadband disservices haven’t been overcome globally, with the vast number of students, and employees struggling to meet their expected high-speed WiFi, also leading to hindrances with their access to online news as well as entertainment.

If these disservices will continue growing, it could worsen these broadband problems and slow global development, including business growth, job opportunities, as well as education. These network providers play a critical role in connecting these gaps and challenges generated by the pandemic on bridging and creating more ways to our so-called new normal to allow equal access to online content.

To reduce these gaps and to deliver these crucial needs, many of the ISPs are discovering ways to partner with different edging networks and tech providers to innovate a more powerful infrastructure. By strengthening these alliances, ISPs can ensure the best performance at scale with reduced costs and at the same time creating wider scopes for new income-driving enterprises.

Minimizing the cost for ISPs and to their consumers

Costs linked with obtaining online content can vary around the world. For ISPs in regions where backhaul is unaffordable, the cost of rendering content from remote servers is an important line item.

As demand heightens, the cost for this content retrieval can eventually get out of control. On the brighter side, on-net caching has been a major cost benefit to performance habits. ISPs can render a piece of content once instead of paying time and time again. These cost savings can be reinvested in other potential growth areas or can elevate the profit margin.

Igniting larger scale of profit-driving opportunities

Providing the best internet experiences at scale, the unforeseen fluctuation in the demand for online videos is putting a massive strain on the internet providers as well as hindering their performance. Also, regarding the performance and benefits, some on-net caching remedies even offer additional income streams. Many of the internet providers want to be more than just a traffic pip and are looking for value-add services that they can monetize and capture revenue from.

Partnering with these edging networks allows ISPs to achieve this, not only delivering better performance, saving some more cash, and nurturing the growth, yet as well as gradually taking a cut-off network providers’ traffic to provide a return on investment.

There are lots of immediate future benefits of on-net caching and these include: Expanding the capacity, reducing costs, improving the quality of service and experience, and expanding income generating potential while at the same time meeting new demands considering remote learning, remote workplaces, entertainment, and many more.

2020 has been a lesson that taught internet providers around the world the importance of delivering affordable content without risking customer experience, and these crucial business priorities will surely continue in the future, in 2022.