With the increasing prevalence of remote work, traditional network architectures are no longer sufficient to provide a seamless experience for users. Slow-responding network connections directly impact user productivity and undermine business performance. Traditional secure perimeter technologies like VPNs and SD-WANs have inherent weaknesses that increase network latency and create poor user experiences. These solutions often concentrate traffic through gateways, causing congestion and backhaul issues. In contrast, Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) offers a better alternative by establishing direct connections between remote workers and the resources they access, eliminating congestion and backhaul associated with traditional gateways. ZTNA also enables split tunneling to further improve performance and provides granular access controls for improved security. By controlling access to both on-premises and cloud resources for all users, ZTNA relieves private networks from backhaul and unnecessary traffic, improving bandwidth, throughput, and latency.