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Deliver faster, more reliable user experiences with highly customizable traffic steering
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Improve customer application experiences with IBM® NS1 Connect DNS traffic steering
  • Leverage Real User Monitoring (RUM) data to steer traffic based on real world device performance.
  •  Use DNS for Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) at a fraction of the cost of in-line solutions.
  •  Steer traffic between multiple Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) to optimize for performance, cost, and uptime.
  •  Route traffic around service outages, latency events, or maintenance windows.
Benefits
Increase uptime

Connect traffic steering to status monitors to route traffic around service deprecations and outages.
Manage multi-cloud, multi-CDN delivery

Steer traffic to the best content delivery network (CDN) or cloud for any given moment.
Failover and disaster recovery

Minimize service disruptions and poor performance by steering users to resources with available capacity.

Key features

Real user monitoring (RUM) data Highly customizable traffic steering More DNS traffic steering options Specialized data integrations Easy to set up and customize
Use cases
Automate failover

Seamlessly switch between endpoints (active-active and active-passive).
Geotargeting

Optimize performance based on the user’s geographic location.
Steer traffic around outages

Maximize uptime by using DNS monitors to automatically change routing rules.
Load balancing and GSLB

Use DNS to manage traffic across different parts of the network, locally or around the world.
Training and resources Intelligent Traffic Steering with NS1 Filter Chains

Watch the NS1 Connect traffic steering solution in action with a demonstration of filter chains.

 IBM NS1 Connect Traffic Steering Solution

Optimize connections to apps, services and content based on geography, RUM, load and more—with APIs or an easy-to-use UI.
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