A Robust, Reliable and Scalable Solution

A Web site's Domain Name Service (DNS) is critical to making the site continually available to end users. However, most enterprises underestimate its importance, under-deploying their DNS infrastructure and often depending on just two or three name servers to support this essential element of their Web infrastructure.

Further, if these servers are resident in the same telecommunications network—or even in the same data center, the enterprise is exceedingly vulnerable to unplanned downtime during name server failures, power losses, or telecommunications network outages.

Akamai's Enhanced DNS provides a robust, reliable, and scalable solution to dependably direct end users to your Web sites. It is the only outsourced DNS solution that leverages the globally-distributed Akamai Platform, requires no change to existing DNS administration processes, and provides unparalleled reliability, scalability, and performance of DNS resolution.

Two versions of the service are available. Enhanced DNS and Enhanced DNS Global, which includes IP Anycast to extend your site globally and scale with your evolving e-business.

Benefits To Your Business:

• Builds brand equity through reliability; multiple redundant name servers distributed throughout the global Akamai Platform improving DNS resolutions dramatically and globally, resulting in a positive user experience, every time.
• Protects your customers and content becuase our name servers do not run BIND and so are not susceptible to its known security vulnerabilities.
• Guarantees 24/7 availability being a critical piece of an always-available infrastructure. By combinir this service with Akamai's Site Failover and Content Delivery features, you're guaranteed tha your site will remain on the air around the clock.
• Streamlines integration providing secondary DNS hosting, so you can maintain complete administration of zone data on your primary name servers.