The concept of backhauling traffic to a centralized data center worked when applications and users resided there. But with users in branch offices and applications moving to the cloud, backhauling traffic across a hub-and-spoke network provides a poor user experience that is expensive and increases security risk. You are paying to backhaul traffic to bring remote users onto a network that they don’t need to access.

To overcome these challenges and deliver a fast user experience, traffic needs to be routed directly to the internet.