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With Cedexis EOL just a few months away, here is why you need NS1 Connect’s Global Traffic Steering Solution

By Claire ODonovan posted Wed April 16, 2025 07:49 AM

Citrix has announced that it will End of Life its Intelligent Traffic Management (ITM) product in October 2025. Citrix acquired this functionality from Cedexis in 2018.

If you are a Cedexis ITM customer, do not wait any longer to put an alternative in place to ensure you are optimizing the delivery of your web traffic and content, managing multi-CDN configurations and improving the performance of your websites and applications. Architecturally, every DNS traffic steering solution takes a different approach – one that couples underlying DNS services with traffic steering functionality. On the surface it can be difficult to pinpoint providers comparative value but look a little closer and you will see significant differences in how traffic steering is delivered and the range of options available.

IBM NS1 Connect provides features that more closely match ITM than any other service, with full flexibility, to control network performance at scale, and here is why:

NS1 Connect allows you to optimize traffic steering and improve application delivery with health check probes, ability to inject external metrics (e.g. load, cost, priority) and Real User Monitoring features for multi-CDN selection and multi-cloud delivery.
Building your own multi-CDN solution can be costly, time consuming and difficult to maintain. NS1 Connects SaaS based steering is easy to use and it is built on an industry standard authoritative DNS, powering some of the world’s largest organizations.
NS1 Connect has more traffic steering options than any other managed DNS provider. You will have more flexibility and granular control over your network.
Replace Radar, Fusion, Sonar and OpenMix with one easy to use platform.
We offer a granular RUM community dataset for over 20+ CDNs and cloud regions, HTTP-based decisioning, lightweight JavaScript tag for data collection and QoE/third party data integrations.
NS1 Connect is the fastest managed DNS provider and we have the data to prove it.

Still looking for reasons to choose NS1 Connect Traffic Steering?

Optimize traffic for multiple use cases and business priorities at the same time. You don’t have to choose between improving performance, lowering costs and maximizing resilience.
Our solution is API-first and easy to automate using IaaC tools like Terraform and Ansible.
Filter chain technology enables code-free configuration of decision-making logic by chaining together single-purpose rules – ‘point and click’ configuration.
Easily deploy in existing environments using our integrations with a variety of toolkits and solutions, including data sources such as Catchpoint and ThousandEyes.
NS1 Connect features a resilient global network architecture with 26 points of presence (PoPs) and a 100% uptime SLA. Defend against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks with massively provisioned infrastructure, autoscaling, sophisticated detection and filtering capabilities.
Our DNS experts have a systematic approach to onboarding new clients that promises a smooth transition which avoids downtime risk.

Don’t delay, set up a call with a member of our team today and we will talk you through what NS1 Connect can do and how we can support you through this upcoming transition.