GlobalDots' Internet Overlay Network enables faster and more reliable SaaS applications by radically improving Internet performance up to 15x, anywhere in the world. GlobalDots enables you to deliver a great user experience over the internet without additional infrastructure.

Through our network, you are now able to take control of Internet performance and how it impacts your application’s performance. Our solution allows you to build dynamic applications without worrying about the internet slowing you down.

Sub-second application response time is an important but often unrealized goal for SaaS providers. Productivity is directly linked to fast application response time. Yet today, the percent of web applications that can actually deliver sub-second response time is very small.

Research has consistently shown that an application response time of over 1 second will cause an interruption in the user’s flow of thought, and a delay of about 10 seconds will result in the abandonment of the task.

However, inconsistent internet performance makes response times of over 5 seconds typical, particularly for end users who are located far from the application’s data center. But why exactly do web applications have such poor response times?

THE INTERNET BACKBONE PROBLEM

The Internet: A SaaS provider's Best Friend... and Worst Enemy

What is the Internet Backbone?

Nearly all web content flows through the Internet Backbone. The Internet Backbone is made up of many large Network Service Providers that interconnect with each other. These large networks charge Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to transport data packets long distances.

How Least Cost Routing hurts performance

Within the Internet Backbone, all traffic is treated equally, and so ISPs maximize profitability by minimizing the cost of sending traffic. Least cost routing is the
process of selecting the path traffic will take along the Internet Backbone based on the lowest cost, not on best performance.

Least cost routing happens as a result of rules that are set into Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), the routing protocol of the Internet Backbone. These BGP rules allow providers to prioritize traffic using cost-based weighting factors.

For SaaS providers, this means there is no way to pay more to get a better quality of service on the public Internet Backbone, and it is nearly impossible to implement consistent routing policies across ISPs to identify the best performing path. This puts the customer experience for SaaS providers at the mercy of the network providers’ cost-cutting routing tables.

Some SaaS providers create regional data centers to improve performance, locating PoPs in the geographies where users are experiencing poor performance.

This approach works when the company can absorb the complexity and cost of deploying and running their own data centers and maintaining mechanisms to
synchronize data across many distributed systems. However, the business complexity created by such an architecture creates significant lock-in and prevents SaaS providers from being able to roll out new features and technologies quickly.

HOW WE SOLVE THE INTERNET BACKBONE PROBLEM

We open up a fast lane through the Internet that gives the end-users of SaaS providers sub-second application performance around the globe. GlobalDots' Internet Overlay Network steers traffic around the congested networks in the Internet Backbone, thus eliminating the need for workarounds. This in turn reduces the cost and complexity of application, storage and networking infrastructure.

It is delivered “as-a-Service”, so there is no hardware, no caching to configure and no user software to download.

GlobalDots' Internet Overlay Network leverages the surface area of public cloud providers to continuously monitor the global Internet Backbone to find the fastest routes, avoiding congestion and overcoming the performance problems caused by least cost routing. In the process, it can improve data transfer performance by 10x or more.

HOW IT WORKS

GlobalDots’ Elastic Network Service leverages the surface area of public clouds around the world to continuously monitor the global internet to identify high performance network paths. We use machine learning to dynamically select and set up the best internet routes steering traffic around congestion and outages, ensuring a great experience for each user.

We adapt dynamically to changing internet conditions and elastically scale up and down to map to real-time traffic requirements, providing instant network acceleration where and when you need it.

GlobalDots is unique in leveraging the surface of the public cloud, across 15+ cloud providers across the globe to provide optimal routing across the
Internet Backbone. Other internet overlay providers are trapped in expensive and inflexible private clouds. GlobalDots takes advantage of the scale of public cloud investment in both location and in peering relationships with local ISPs.