Managing secure remote access across a fleet of servers, developer laptops, and mobile devices has historically been a complex operations task. Traditional virtual private networks (VPNs) rely on a hub-and-spoke model. Under this architecture, all traffic must route through a central gateway. This central hub quickly becomes a bottleneck, introducing latency and representing a single point of failure. It also forces traffic to take inefficient routes; for example, two devices sitting in the same office might route their traffic through a distant cloud gateway just to talk to each other.

Setting up a decentralized mesh network, where