Frequently Asked Questions

NetActuate provides both In-House DDoS and Always-On DDoS protection options.

NetActuate mitigates volumetric, protocol, and application-layer attacks using advanced filtering and global scrubbing centers. We implement firewalls, rate limiting, protocol anomaly detection, connection tracking, Geo/IP filtering, and more.

DDoS mitigation protects networks and services from distributed denial-of-service (DDos) attacks by filtering and absorbing malicious traffic.

Absolutely. It works seamlessly with on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments to enhance availability.

NetActuate provides global and regional load balancing using Anycast and health checks for optimal traffic routing. This includes Layer 4/7 balancing, GSLB (global server load balancing), and traffic steering.

Load balancing distributes traffic across multiple servers or locations to maximize uptime, performance, and resource efficiency.

Peering routes traffic more directly between networks, significantly lowering round-trip time and improving end-user experience.

Users can peer at multiple global exchanges through a single NetActuate connection. Hardware-free options including virtual machines can provide a presence without the hassle of importing and configuring equipment.

IX peering allows networks to exchange traffic directly at Internet Exchange Points, improving performance and reducing transit costs.

NetActuate offers blended transit with Tier 1 and peer routes, ensuring low-latency and high-redundancy connectivity.

NetActuate provides low-latency IP transit service in over 60+ carrier hotels, 2000+ peers, and Tier 1 providers and includes IPv4 and IPv6 configuration at no extra cost.

IP transit is a service that allows network traffic to travel through an Internet Service Provider’s network to reach the global internet.

NetActuate offers three tiers of BGP Anycast services. 1. BGP Anycast Platform, a fully managed, globally distributed network service that enables instant deployment of resilient edge infrastructure. 2. Shared Anycast IP, instant access to NetActuate’s global routing platform using a single, managed anycast IP address. 3. Basic BGP, a self-managed feature that enables prefix advertisement, routing policy management, and interconnection with our global network

NetActuate’s BGP Anycast network delivers exceptional latency improvements, typically reducing global response times by 80% or more. Users can deploy anycast seamlessly via automation tools like Terraform and APIs, and achieve instant redundancy, automatic failover, and DoS protection for mission-critical applications.

BGP Anycast is a network addressing and routing technique that lets multiple servers in different locations all sit behind a single IP address. Anycast leverages Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), which is how networks exchange routing information on the internet.

Yes. All colocation services include 24/7 remote hands for hardware maintenance and troubleshooting. Additional "smarter hands” services from complex installs to real-time troubleshooting are also available.

NetActuate offers colocation in 40+ datacenters worldwide, ideal for latency-sensitive and globally distributed workloads.

Colocation allows you to place your own servers in a secure, professionally managed data center with power, cooling, and connectivity.

Yes. Full IPMI and API access are included for remote provisioning and monitoring.

Yes. NetActuate offers bare metal servers in over 40 global locations for low-latency edge deployments.

Bare metal hosting provides dedicated physical servers with no virtualization layer, offering maximum performance and control for one client only.

Yes. Redundant networking, storage, and compute options ensure enterprise-grade availability.

Yes. You can deploy VMs using standard templates or your own custom OS images.

Virtual Machines are scalable cloud instances deployed on global edge infrastructure, ideal for web apps, services, and compute workloads.

NetActuate offers deep Kubernetes integration and makes extensive use of Kubernetes clusters. Inside the NetActuate customer portal, users can connect to Kubernetes, deploy workloads, and more.

NetActuate supports public, private, and hybrid cloud environments.

NetActuate builds global virtual machines using KVM and QEMU optimized for performance, scalability, and low-latency access.

Yes. NetActuate enables MGX environments from edge to core.

NetActuate offers colocation solutions with 50kW racks, ideal for compute-heavy and AI workloads.

High-powered colocation provides data center space with increased power density to support energy-intensive hardware like GPUs and HPC systems.

NetActuate supports on-premise deployment inside your own data center, or in a fully managed air-gapped facility.

Yes. Users can secure isolation for tenants at massive scale—leveraging VXLAN on NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs and Spectrum-X switches.

Coherently AI is a private, fine-tuned, and secure AI Stack. As a distributed inference platform, it enables low-latency, high-availability AI processing at the network edge.

Absolutely. It’s designed for intensive workloads like AI model training, deep learning, and real-time inference.

Yes. NetActuate’s platform allows elastic scaling of GPU resources based on workload demands across its global infrastructure.

GPU-as-a-Service provides on-demand access to high-performance GPUs for AI, machine learning, and compute-heavy workloads—without owning physical hardware.

LLM traffic is spiky. With anycast, you can advertise the same service IP from multiple regions, balancing the traffic load automatically.

Yes. Anycast improves model inference response time by leveraging proximity-based routing to edge compute infrastructure.

While inference is the key to unlocking the potential of LLMs, one of the primary obstacles to adoption is the latency between users, data sets, and models, especially time-to-first-token. Anycast Inference routes users to the closest edge node, improving response time for real-time applications like chatbots and virtual assistants.