When “Lag” Becomes the Norm: A True Picture of the Hidden Network Pain of SMEs In many small and medium-sized enterprises in Beijing, network problems seldom appear in the extreme form of a “connection outage”. Instead they linger in more insidious and more tormenting ways. Picture an 80-person R&D technology company: every morning at 10 a.m., during the business peak, commits to the core code repository slow to a crawl, with response times stretching from seconds to minutes; developers repeatedly