dynect traffic management overview
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Dynect Platform Traffic Management enables cloud computing and web site operators to achieve great availability online.TRANSCRIPT
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