There are numerous distributed organizations with dozen, hundreds or even thousands of remote locations, venues, branches, or sites reporting to one or more regional offices and central headquarters. In many cases, these remote locations operate like small businesses, which is typically the case with franchise systems such as McDonald’s or MD Now Urgent Care in the USA. The relationship between a centralized entity and many decentralized business locations is especially common in the retail, restaurant, medical, and financial industries and leads to very specific IT and Wi-Fi requirements.
