LightYear Smart Network weaves together private VPCs, BGP routing, DDoS mitigation, global load balancing, and edge CDN into a single, cohesive cloud network — no third-party tools required.
Eight integrated networking primitives — each powerful on its own, even better together.
Spin up isolated private networks across any region. Connect servers within a VPC at no bandwidth cost — traffic never leaves the LightYear backbone.
Bring your own IP space and ASN, or use a private ASN assigned by LightYear. Announce prefixes from any of our 32 regions with full-table or custom community support.
Always-on volumetric DDoS mitigation built into every server. Malicious traffic is scrubbed inside the LightYear network — no latency increase, no extra charge.
Route users to the nearest healthy server across all 32 regions. Combine with regional load balancers for a two-tier traffic distribution strategy.
Cache static assets at the edge, close to your users. Push and pull zones supported. Reduce origin load and cut time-to-first-byte by up to 80%.
Define stateful inbound and outbound rules once, then apply them to any number of servers. IPv4 and IPv6 rules, IP allowlists, and port-range filtering.
Allocate floating IP addresses that persist independently of any server. Reassign them in seconds for zero-downtime failover or blue-green deployments.
Host your domains on LightYear's AnyCast nameserver network for fast, resilient DNS resolution worldwide. Manage records via API or the control panel.
Smart Network operates at every layer of your stack — from the physical backbone to the application edge.
From AI clusters to SaaS platforms, Smart Network adapts to your architecture.
Combine Global Load Balancer with regional VPCs to build active-active architectures that survive a full region outage without user impact.
Connect GPU nodes over a private VPC with 10 Gbps internal bandwidth. No egress fees between nodes — ideal for distributed training workloads.
Layer firewall groups, private VPCs, and DDoS Shield to build a defence-in-depth architecture where every service is isolated and monitored.
Isolate each customer in its own VPC segment. Use Reserved IPs for tenant-specific endpoints and BGP to advertise dedicated prefixes per enterprise client.
LightYear's backbone delivers sub-2ms internal latency between nodes in the same region and single-digit millisecond hops across continents.
Internal backbone latency between nodes in the same region. Cross-region latency varies by geography.
These networking features are bundled into every LightYear server at no extra cost.
Scale specific capabilities as your needs grow.
Common questions about LightYear Smart Network.