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Ensure resilience, increase performance, and simplify management of authoritative DNS resources with IBM NS1 Connect Managed DNS. Add data-driven DNS traffic steering to optimize traffic flows between CDNs and cloud providers.
Overview
IBM NS1 Connect Managed DNS
Deliver high performing, high availability applications with the IBM NS1 Connect Managed DNS solution. Our API-first, SaaS platform gives developers the tools to integrate and manage DNS resources across the enterprise. Robust, customizable traffic steering optimizes for performance, cost, availability, and more.
All of this comes on top of the standard features you'd expect from a leading DNS service provider - 100 percent uptime SLA on a global, highly resilient, DNSSEC-enabled, anycasted network, complete with metrics and dashboards to monitor performance.
IBM NS1 Connect makes it easy to automate, orchestrate, and integrate through an API-first architecture that supports integrations with Terraform, Grafana, Ansible, Go, Python, and more.
IBM NS1 Connect protects your DNS from DDoS attacks with our massively provisioned infrastructure, a distributed network, and auto-scaling capabilities, combined with sophisticated 24/7 monitoring, detection, and filtering capabilities at every level of the protocol stack.
IBM NS1 Connect also offers Dedicated DNS, a redundant network that is physically and logically separated from the primary system, yet managed through a single portal. This option is available as an add-on for customers which want an additional redundant layer of protection from outages.
Finally, IBM NS1 Connect offers DNS for China, ensuring consistent application performance in mainland China.
IBM NS1 Traffic Steering
IBM NS1 Connect offers data-driven tools to optimize traffic in multi-cloud, multi-CDN architectures as an add-on to Managed DNS. The IBM NS1 Connect traffic steering solution combines real-time metrics with automated DNS routing decisions to provide optimized experiences that are resilient and cost-efficient.
IBM NS1 Connect traffic steering is ideal for streaming, gaming, and other services where real-time performance matters. It reduces page load times, download times, and video buffering by leveraging advanced user telemetry and internet performance analysis to steer traffic to high performance CDNs, clouds, or datacenters.
IBM NS1 Connect traffic steering improves resilience through constant monitoring of service availability, combined with automated failover to services with the best performance. Minimize exposure to outages and periods of low availability by using data to drive your multi-cloud, multi-CDN strategy.
IBM NS1 Connect traffic steering gives you highly customizable controls that respond to Real User Monitoring (RUM) data and other service indicators. Manage your entire content delivery system from one fully automated control plane instead of juggling code across multiple platforms.
IBM NS1 traffic steering also uses HTTP-based decisions to provide an ordered list of optimal CDNs for the manifest generator (or player) to consume for streaming content delivery. RUM-based traffic steering is compatible with CDN token authentication and mid-stream switching to release viewers from poor performing CDNs after they start streaming.
If you'd like to learn more, request a demo at https://www.ibm.com/account/reg/us-en/signup?formid=DEMO-automatens1Â
Highlights
- Global anycast network: Primary and secondary DNS built with a fully redundant architecture at 26 locations to meet a 100% uptime SLA.
- Built-in resilience: Add a physically and logically separated secondary DNS layer that's managed from the same control plane.
- Traffic steering: Automatically steer traffic across multiple CDNs and cloud providers to optimize for cost, contractual commits, and third-party quality of experience (QoE) metrics.
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Dimension | Description | Cost/12 months |
|---|---|---|
Essentials | Includes 30M queries 1000 records 1 Filter Chain 2 Monitors | $1,188.00 |
Essentials Small Bundle | Includes 50M queries 1000 records 1 Filter Chain 2 Monitors | $2,388.00 |
Essentials Large Bundle | Includes 80M queries 1000 records 1 Filter Chain 2 Monitors | $4,188.00 |
Dimension | Cost/unit |
|---|---|
Overage Rate Total Queries (Requests) | $50.00 |
Overage Rate DNS Records | $75.00 |
Overage Rate Filter Chains (Resource Units) | $103.50 |
Overage Rate Monitors (Jobs) | $3.45 |
Overage Rate China Requests | $172.00 |
Steering Standard Interaction Overage | $20.39 |
GSLB Standard Interaction Overage | $20.39 |
Steering Advanced Interaction Overage | $32.39 |
GSLB Advanced Interaction Overage | $32.39 |
Enterprise Request Overage | $8.27 |
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Global DNS Network
Fully redundant anycast DNS architecture deployed across 26 global locations with high availability design
Traffic Routing Optimization
Advanced data-driven traffic steering using real-time metrics and automated DNS routing decisions
API Integration Framework
Supports integrations with multiple infrastructure and monitoring tools including Terraform, Grafana, Ansible, Go, and Python
DDoS Protection Mechanism
Distributed network infrastructure with auto-scaling capabilities, sophisticated 24/7 monitoring, and multi-level protocol stack filtering
Performance Monitoring
Real User Monitoring (RUM) based traffic management with continuous service availability tracking and automated failover capabilities
Cloud Networking
Provides comprehensive networking and security service for public and private clouds with proxy-based architecture and global backbone connectivity
Application Security
Offers web application firewall (WAF), bot protection, L3-L7 DDoS defense, and API security across distributed environments
Multi-Cloud Deployment
Enables deployment, connection, and operation of applications across public, private, network, and edge cloud environments
Edge Computing
Hosts containerized app workloads at regional edge locations closer to users with high performance and scalability
Traffic Management
Includes integrated router, load balancer, network firewall, and API gateway into a single software stack and management portal
DNS Policy Management
Supports advanced DNS policies including query resolution, recursion, zone transfer, and traffic management
Zone Configuration
Enables setup of primary, secondary, Active Directory integrated, and stub DNS zones
IPv6 Support
Provides native IPv6 root hints configuration for modern network environments
Authentication Mechanism
Implements DNS Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) for enhanced security
PowerShell Integration
Offers extended Windows PowerShell support for DNS server administration and configuration
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61 external reviews
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Computer Software
Great analytics and visibility with IBM NS1 Connect
Reviewed on Jul 16, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
The clean and well-designed dashboard is my favorite feature. All types of query logs, real-time traffic & performance information are shown in it at a glance. It helps to pinpoint trouble spots quickly and grasp general trends too. Its analytics, all fairly comprehensive yet easy to manage are now invaluable in dealing with complex DNS configurations.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the interface can be a bit slow to load data-heavy reports. A mobile-friendly view could also make quick checks easier when you're not at a desk.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It solves the problems of latency and failover with fast response times around the world. If traffic spikes happen, their managed DNS service can still keep things smooth and steady. That has increased uptime considerably: no need for as much manual intervention; easier solving when something goes wrong.
Debash B.
IBM NS1 Connect Review
Reviewed on Jul 16, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I like how reliable and fast the DNS performance is. It’s easy to manage and very responsive.
What do you dislike about the product?
The interface can be a bit complex at first, and some advanced features take time to fully understand.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It’s helping us improve DNS reliability and performance, which means faster load times and less downtime for our users. It also makes traffic management much easier.
MANDARA S.
Trying out
Reviewed on Jul 16, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Fast reliable, routing features, optimize traffic management
What do you dislike about the product?
Less docs for beginners, and advance features should include guide for better usage
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helping me learn routing for one of my project.
Computer Software
Good but not reliable as it is not as known as other in market
Reviewed on Jul 15, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Fast, advanced routing features. Helps in improving application availability.
What do you dislike about the product?
GUI limitations, less learning docs for advanced features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helpful for me as a learner.
Ravindra G.
User-friendly and cost efficiency
Reviewed on Jul 13, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Friendly and cost efficiency for implementation
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing as much, I dislike about this product
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
IBM N S1 connect solving My major problem like traffic control in the data transmission and all