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Why do I need IP Anycast?

2017-10-13Hasham

Anycast by Datapath.io

You need Anycast if you want a network that is

  • scalable
  • reliable
  • robust

A network using Anycast can compensate unexpected spikes in traffic and growth through load balancing and server outages through failover .

The Anycast solution of Datapath.io operates at BGP-level and assigns a single global IP address to a company. It never changes during a server request and thus the time for redirecting reduces from 5 minutes to several seconds. There a two use cases:

Failover

Anycast will run continuous health checks on servers and protect you in case of server outage and perform a failover where your traffic gets redirected to substitute servers in a few seconds. This maximizes uptime and availability.

Load Balancing

If the access of many IP addresses to a server oversteps a maximum load, data traffic will be redirected and evenly distributed to all the other available servers. This improves redundancy and flexibility.

Anycast…

  • …reduces latency and increases speed because it routes users to the closest server.
  • …improves reliability because users are re-routed predictably to other servers when there is downtime.
  • …improves scalability because load is balanced over multiple data centers globally.
  • …decreases cost because local traffic can be delivered via peering.

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