Apply Anycast Best Practices for Resilient & Performant Global Applications

Global applications depend on network-layer resilience and performance — as the recent spate of DNS-related cloud outages place in sharp relief. Anycast remains one of the most powerful methods to achieve both. But deploying Anycast correctly takes more than announcing prefixes from multiple POPs. BGP is based upon policies—not physical locations—and regional politics, upstream carrier outages, and network congestion can impact performance. What’s more, monitoring Anycast traffic outside your network is difficult. In this webinar, Mark Mahle, CEO and Chief Plumber at NetActuate, breaks down the operational patterns, community controls, and design frameworks that make Anycast-based services both performant and fault-tolerant at scale. From global DNS and CDN deployment to DDoS mitigation, BYOIP strategies, and BGP community engineering, this session explores the real-world lessons learned from managing a global Anycast network with 45+ PoPs that handles more than 25 billion transactions per day. You’ll learn how to: * Design an address/ASN strategy that supports tiered services, regional controls, and IPv6 parity. * Architect applications to be Anycast-ready—including health signaling, session behavior, and graceful maintenance. * Use BGP communities to perform precise traffic engineering, blackholing, and route dampening across hybrid and multi-cloud networks. * Implement observability, route hygiene, and GitOps-driven automation for continuous verification and change safety. * Combine cloud edges (AWS, Google, Cloudflare) with your own Anycast footprint for visibility, control, and compliance. Whether you’re running a DNS platform, web application firewall, or secure access VPN, you’ll leave with actionable insights and a practitioner’s checklist for building and operating resilient global networks.