Hi Gals and Lads
As some of you probably know we are working on new service (codename Hydra) which will provide anycast-as-a-service.
The service will offer two modes:
regular anycast - you can rent one or more anycast IPs announced currently in three locations (Los Angeles, Chicago and Amsterdam) and route them via GRE to your existing server (later on we will add more locations, for sure Asia and second one in EU);
protected anycast - you can rent one or more anycast IPs announced currently in three locations (Los Angeles, Chicago and Amsterdam) and route them via GRE to your existing server, beside that you can buy dedicated DDoS protection (we are Staminus Channel Partner and have direct BGP sessions with them).
We are not sure about pricing yet but for sure:
regular anycast price will cover all locations,
protected anycast will combine regular anycast price plus DDoS protection.
Planned functionality:
GRE/IPIP tunnels,
BGP support (you can run quagga/bird and setup session with us even with /32),
possibility of announcing your own subnet,
IPv6 support
Current locations:
Amsterdam, Nikhef DC
Chicago, Digital Lakeside, 350 E Cermak Rd.
Los Angeles, CoreSite, 900 N. Alameda,
We have few ideas in mind but we want to know YOUR opinion first! Feel free to post ideas, comments or feature requests and we will do our best to include them.
Planned public launch date - second half of February 2014
Cheers Peter