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NS1 Connect
Network resilience and uptime
Guard against outages with resilient, redundant network services
Keep revenue-generating applications online, all the time
With IBM® NS1 Connect you’ll see:
- Multiple options for automated failover, including to a single-tenant Dedicated DNS system.
- The possibility to automatically steer traffic around service outages, latency events, or maintenance windows.
- Robust system protections and massive scale to protect against DDoS attacks.
- Proactive analysis through DNS Insights of traffic patterns and configuration issues.
Discover valuable insights into the current state and future direction of network infrastructure and application connectivity.
DDoS attack protection
When outsourcing authoritative DNS, you get massive network scale that would be expensive to build and maintain on your own. When high-traffic events (such as DDoS attacks) hit, you need a sophisticated, resilient network that answers DNS queries promptly. NS1 Connect provides a resilient, scalable network at a fraction of the cost of self-hosted DNS.
NS1 Connect handles 1 million queries per second—on a slow day.
Resilient, redundant systems to keep you constantly up and running.
Protect yourself against DDoS-related charges with an optional coverage plan.
Advanced traffic steering driven by RUM data
One of the primary advantages of using multiple clouds and content delivery networks (CDNs) is the ability to divert traffic to the best performing, most-available services at any time. NS1 Connect has sophisticated traffic steering technology, driven by real user monitoring (RUM) data to help you avoid downtime linked to service outages and deprecations.
IBM NS1 Connect relies on RUM data—not synthetically produced information—to deliver accurate, timely decisions based on service availability.
The customizable traffic steering logic in IBM NS1 Connect avoids performance challenges associated with "flutter" between content providers.
IBM NS1 Connect steers traffic quickly and automatically, providing a seamless user experience regardless of turmoil in back-end systems.
Additional use cases
Improve application performance by identifying DNS misconfigurations, getting ahead of NXDOMAIN spikes, and tracking the early indications of DDoS attacks.
Balance network traffic all the way out to end-user devices using insights derived from real-user monitoring (RUM) data.
Steer DNS traffic to the highest performing, most available endpoints to ensure the best end-user experience for your applications.