dynect traffic management overview

Dynect Traffic ManagementCloud Computing Enabled

Agenda

• Company Overview• Market Background• Dynect Platform Background• Dynect Traffic Management• DTM Walkthrough• Key Customers

Company Background

• Operations since 1998 for home DDNS• World's most reliable DNS network• Private company in NH• Engineering, open-source focused• 2 million customers

– Individuals, small-large companies, dozen domain registries

• 10 datacenter sites

Company Growth

• Volunteer-based, user focused start• First service (required donation) in 2001• Not just dynamic DNS anymore• From 4 to 10 datacenters• Dynect Platform launch in 2007• ICANN registrar, 60k domains• Authoritative DNS for 100k zones

DNS Market Dynamics

• Heavy soft costs in staff and outages• Misconfigurations more costly– Hard to notice and detect– Not just web and mail (VoIP, ecommerce, DR)

• 25 year old technology, still misunderstood• Few providers, few choices: free to a lot • As with email, outsourcing DNS easy

DNS Market DynamicsDNS Hosting for the F1000

The Dynect Platform

“A scalable external DNS platform that directs your Internet traffic, routes around outages, and maximizes the performance of your network.”

Dynect Features

• Managed DNS, always available• Anycast delivery– Lower latency, better uptime

• Comprehensive loadbalancing/failover • Monitoring and alerting• DNS experts - Dynect Concierge• Zone revisions, audit logs, graphing, reporting

Network Map/POPs

Dynect Platform 2.0

• Dynect Traffic Management:– Global server load balancing (GSLB)– Direct end users to particular customer PoPs– Spread content/applications for speed/reliability

• Alternative to hardware appliances, CDN– Expensive, new training required, maintenance

• Enable content overlay networks– We provide traffic control– Customer handles own content servers– Great for dynamic web applications

Technology: Implementation

• Bind, Apache, mod_perl, FreeBSD• Anycast from 10 locations:– North America, Europe, Asia

• Advanced DDoS mitigation with Cloudshield DPI• Query capacity of millions/second• Gomez, Renesys external monitoring

Quick Tech Lesson: Anycast

Cloud Computing Delayed

• On-demand capacity available but untapped– Amazon EC2– Rackspace– VPS providers galore

• Implementation challenges:– Load-balance individual servers (LAN side)– Geographic traffic directing (WAN side)– Monitoring and failover

Dynect Traffic Management

• Anycast to attract traffic to our POPs• Each POP: direct end users from on customer rulesets • Direct customers in Europe to European servers– Deployed in a cloud, datacenter, etc.

• Monitor the availability of the service and degrade to a functional, but further-away server when needed

• Multi-point monitoring to ensure good decisions

Dynect Traffic Management Tour

• Walkthrough of the interface…

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DTM Notes

• Available to current customers December 2008• Generally available February 2009• Edgecast first announced customer• Pricing as low as $1500/month• As part of Dynect overall DNS service

Dynect Partners & Customers

Give us a call!

sales@dynect.com+1 888-840-3258

http://dynect.com