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The hyperconnected economy requires higher quality, faster and more consistent user experiences, and this poses increasing challenges for ISPs. With more and more devices connected to the Internet, demand continues to increase exponentially, and it’s necessary to ensure customers are kept happy. However, at the same time, companies must find smart ways to grow without losing control of costs. Building solutions that are focused on improving routing is one of the main challenges in today's reality. This blog post will provide a closer look at the Azion Edge Network and how Azion’s Edge Traffic Router uses SDN to deliver superior performance to our customers.

The Internet through its constant growth, as an open technology, has become a complex and dynamic network. Consequently, organizations from different industries demand specialized infrastructures that overcome the challenges of BGP to deploy their applications with personalized delivery, automatic scalability, security, data localization, intelligent routing, mobility, and low latency services.

It’s a fact that the world can't continue without the Internet and users want the best performance. When a DNS is modern and on an edge computing platform, the benefits are even greater, providing a much better experience for business and end users. That's what Azion's Intelligent DNS delivers for you and your business.

Do you know that accessing a website goes far beyond typing the address into the browser toolbar? There's a universe behind the scenes, things that we don't see in front of our screens, but that make this world called the Internet go round – and one of its key elements is the DNS.

Load balancing solves one of the biggest problems for websites and applications: how to handle requests from large numbers of users. Guaranteeing availability through solutions that optimize consumption improves the user experience and ensures access speed, which is essential for business.

Have you ever thought about how the Internet works underneath all the interconnected hardware? It’s a complicated process involving not just hardware, but a menagerie of systems and software. Let’s focus on two actors, the client and the server, that communicate with each other on the Internet.

Authentication is a protocol used in HTTP communication to verify that a client is who they say they are before providing the client access to a certain resource on the web. This is another security procedure in the HTTP protocol to protect users and businesses in the online environment. When authentication is done at the edge, there is a significant increase in the speed and security of the process and, consequently, in the companies' credibility and revenue.

A conditional request is an important feature of the HTTP protocol, as it allows the manipulation of the response that the server will send according to what the client wants. This means convenience and agility in HTTP communications.

Caching is basically the storage and reuse of frequently accessed resources on web pages. As the storage is done in a place of quick access, navigation is faster, which also improves the performance of websites and applications. That's why HTTP Caching is an essential tool for businesses that want to optimize the user experience and, consequently, increase their revenue.

As part of our ongoing commitment to simplify the process of building and running applications at the edge, Azion is pleased to announce changes to Edge Application that will make deployment easier and more flexible. Starting today, we have expanded port access for Edge Application.

Every website lives and dies by its speed. A fast website is invisible to its users, allowing them to conduct their business smoothly and satisfactorily. Anything less than instant connections jolts the customer out of their transactions, making them painfully aware of the time it takes to navigate from page to page. Optimizing your website connection times should be a top priority.

IoT devices are finding new uses in many different fields and industries, with the development of automating many aspects of life and business, where we have come up with an array of smart technologies such as factories, agriculture, grid-monitoring, oil & gas, and even the home has not escaped becoming a smart home.

Our commitment to building a safer, more stable internet is a core value here at Azion. As our global dependence on a secure internet continues to increase, it becomes ever more critical that we safeguard against the many vulnerabilities that web infrastructure is riddled with.

Azion products are built with distributed and redundant architecture in different layers, and we are constantly looking at ways to improve the availability, performance and security of our products and services. Intelligent DNS has a global infrastructure and an anycast network. In other words, queries that require DNS resolution are routed to the part of the globe and point of presence closest to the user.