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Learn how anycast can improve your infrastructure’s availability, performance, resiliency, and security—all at the network level. From load balancing to optimized latency to automatic failover, anycast helps make the most important parts of the internet extremely reliable and high performing. Discover how it can boost your own platforms and services.

What is Anycast?

BGP anycast is a way to route network traffic that dramatically increases the speed and reliability of your data, application, and content delivery to your end users. With anycast routing, one IP address becomes reachable at multiple geographic locations. 

Faster Connections

Anycast enables user requests to be directed to the location closest to them geographically, minimizing round-trip time (RTT), decreasing the number of hops, and reducing latency.

Improved Reliability

Anycast makes fully redundant servers available from one IP address. If one location is down for any reason, users are sent automatically to the next closest location.

Load Balancing

Anycast routes users to the location closest to them, effectively balances the load among the your servers, while improving speed and performance.

DDoS Mitigation

Anycast reduces the impact of DDoS attacks. If one location is taken offline, users are automatically rerouted to the next closest online server available at the same IP.

BGP Anycast Use Cases

From Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) to DNS providers, learn how anycast can reduce latency and eliminate downtime for your end users.

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Go Global Today on NetActuate’s Anycast Platform

Bring your products and services to the global edge with NetActuate’s anycast platform. Available in over 40 global locations, connected by the second largest network in the world, a team of veteran network engineers is ready to build and optimize the right deployment for your business. Scale your products and services without fear of performance issues or prohibitive costs.

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