VMware and Amazon-owned mesh WiFi vendor Eero teamed up this week to bring the benefits of secure access service edge (SASE) to your home.

“We ask a lot of our home WiFi these days. At any given moment it may be supporting multiple data-intensive tasks from joining a work video conference call to streaming and gaming in 4K, to supporting an online learning environment, and more,” said Sean Harris, VP of sales and marketing at Eero.

This week’s collaboration marks the latest push by networking and security vendors into remote and hybrid workers' homes. The partnership combines Eero 6 and Eero Pro 6 wireless mesh routers with security and quality assurance capabilities from VMware.

According to Eero, the mesh routers ensure strong coverage across the entire home or apartment and deliver higher speeds thanks to WiFi 6, which allow for connections up to 1 Gb/s.

In addition to providing parental controls, content filtering, malware prevention, and ad blocking, the mesh routers also integrate with VMware’s cloud-delivered SASE platform.

The integration takes advantage of VMware’s 150 points of presence (PoP) to enable network remediation between the user’s home and the app or service they’re trying to access while also enforcing consistent corporate security policy.

VMware claims its SASE automatically recognizes more than 3,000 application signatures and prioritizes latency-sensitive traffic like conference calls.

And because these services are running in the PoP, and not on the appliance, policy changes can be managed remotely by enterprise IT teams.

VMware isn’t the only vendor looking to capitalize on the shift to remote work.

Early last month, Fortinet and Palo Alto Networks launched their own respective home security appliances.

For its home appliance, Fortinet joined forces with consumer networking giant Linksys, to launch a wireless router that packs enterprise-grade security into a consumer-friendly package.

Like VMware’s integration with Eero, the Linksys HomeWRK features WiFi 6, is controlled via a mobile app, and can be remotely managed by enterprise IT teams. However, unlike VMware, Fortinet’s security stack runs entirely on premises and doesn’t integrate with the company’s own SASE platform.

Meanwhile, Palo Alto Network’s Okyo Garde — pronounced “guard” — offers customers the choice of running the security stack on premises or integrating with Prisma SASE. However, the SASE integration isn’t intended for remote users and is instead aimed at small branch and retail deployments.