Blended Internet

Access CoreSite Blended IP docs covering features, specifications, BGP routing, SLA details, redundancy, IPv4/IPv6 support, and how blended ISP and exchange connectivity delivers robust internet services

• Blended IP Introduction

  Blended Internet Protocol also known as Blended IP, provides direct internet access for all your production level traffic. In a colocation data center environment "blended" refers to the use of multi…

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• Features and Specifications

  Internet services blended between multiple IP providers and internet exchanges, including CoreSite's Any2Exchange allowing “best available” routing. Flexible product configurations available for port…

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• BGP

  BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) is the protocol used to exchange routing information between different networks on the internet. It enables autonomous systems (AS)—large networks or groups of networks…

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• Service Level Agreement

  CoreSite offers a 100% uptime SLA that is achieved through a blend of multiple Tier 1 internet service providers and redundant customer hand-offs. CoreSite uses commercially reasonable efforts to ens…

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• DNS

  DNS stands for Domain Name System and acts as the internet's phonebook, translating human-friendly website names (like www.example.com) into the machine-readable IP addresses like 172.217.160.142. It…

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• IPv4 and IPv6

  IPv4 Blended IP service is assigned a /29 IPv4 block which includes 3 useable IP addresses 5 IP addresses are always reserved for CoreSite configuration, 3 in order to configure VRRP on CoreSite side…

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• Redundancy

  VRRP. By default, CoreSite configures a customer gateway with Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP), network protocol that provides high availability for default gateways on a network, to provide…

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