What We Offer
Our easy to use platform offers the programmable, API-first architecture that powers network automation
Smart Application Control
Deliver the best user experience across all your internet applications, services, and content with the industry-leading platform for external DNS.
Managed DNS
Optimize performance with a managed DNS service that’s reliable, secure, and easy to use.
Traffic Steering
Optimize DNS connections to improve performance, lower costs, and add resilience.
Dedicated DNS
Additional protection against downtime through a physically and logically separated external DNS service, managed through a single control plane.
Smart Edge Control
Manage complexity on the network edge with modular, cloud-managed, programmable, serverless network services
Edge DNS
Coming soon! Deploy DNS as a modular services on the edge, with centralized management in the cloud.
NetBox Cloud: Network Source of Truth
Establish an authoritative source of truth for network infrastructure with a robust IPAM system, paired with the industry standard for Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM).
Orb: Edge Observability
An open source tool for dynamic observability on the network edge, using a “small data” approach that delivers valuable insights with lower operational costs.
Innovation @ NS1 Labs
At NS1, we’re shaping the future of networks with forward-looking projects and experiments. Here are some of the lines of effort that are currently in development at NS1 Labs.
pktvisor
An observability agent designed for the network edge - a companion piece for Orb.
Flamethrower
A lightweight, fast, configurable tool for functional testing, benchmarking, and stress testing DNS servers and networks.
DNS-over-QUIC to UDP Proxy
Experimental proxy to convert DNS-over-QUIC DNS queries into standard UDP DNS queries
Featured Resources
How to Optimize Application Delivery Performance with DNS
Learn how and why optimizing your application delivery performance starts with leveraging application traffic intelligence and automation at the DNS layer.
NetBox: The Foundation of Network Automation at NS1
The journey to continuously deliver a reliable network & how NS1 uses NetBox.
DNS Traffic Steering 201: Advanced Traffic Steering with Pulsar
Our powerful traffic steering gives network administrators the power to lower costs, improve performance, and ensure high availability through customizable routing rules