Geographically Aware DNS and Anycast Solutions

Our Geo-Diversity system uses geo-location data from the requesting DNS server to direct requests to the nearest of our relay nodes. These nodes typically have better back haul connections to our origin sites, plus they do caching and replication, so they are able to deliver your content to far away locations much more quickly, and less expensively than if the users had to connect directly to your origin site.

ScaleEngine will begin building and testing it's Anycast Network in 2011Q1 and expects to have it live for the start of 2011Q2. Anycast uses the existing BGP protocol that operates the backbones of the Internet, finding the best route between point A and B, and extends it, giving it the option to direct traffic to each of our Edge and CDN locations, and allowing it to determine which is the optimal node for each location on the Internet. Rather than making the choice based on imprecise geographic data, Anycast uses BGP to make the determination based on an up to date picture of the topology of the entire Internet.