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Anycast enables low latency by directing traffic to the nearest node and ensures high uptime by automatically rerouting around failures.
Digital enterprises face growing challenges in maintaining high performance and availability across distributed systems. Key issues include network latency due to global user dispersion, uneven traffic distribution causing congestion, single points of failure in centralized infrastructures, and complex failover management during outages. Additionally, fluctuating demand and large-scale attacks (like DDoS) can overwhelm specific data centers or regions, degrading user experience and reliability.
Anycast directly addresses these challenges by advertising the same IP address from multiple geographically distributed nodes. Traffic is automatically routed by BGP to the nearest or healthiest node, minimizing latency and balancing load. If one node fails, routing seamlessly shifts to another without user intervention, improving uptime. This model enhances scalability, fault tolerance, and resilience against DDoS attacks by dispersing traffic across multiple endpoints. For enterprises, Anycast provides a cost-effective, globally distributed framework that supports consistent, high-performance delivery of digital services while simplifying disaster recovery and redundancy.
At the network level, BGP anycast can offer unparalleled low latency performance. With our anycast technology, you can distribute your content, data, and applications to as many PoPs (points of presence) as you want, and direct incoming traffic to the nearest one, utilizing the same IP for all instances. Anycast can be configured to work with virtually any online application.
If one node fails, BGP automatically reroutes traffic to another healthy node advertising the same IP. This built-in redundancy ensures continuous uptime without manual failover or complex DNS management.
Organizations need multiple globally distributed nodes, each announcing the same IP prefix via BGP. Reliable health checks, route monitoring, and peering with diverse networks are essential for stability and fast convergence.
Track metrics like latency, packet loss, route stability, node health, and failover response time. Use active probes and real-time telemetry to validate that Anycast consistently improves availability and user experience.
Deploy across 45+ global locations on one of the world’s largest networks, engineered for performance, resiliency, and efficient scaling without the risk of downtime or runaway costs.
