ReferenceGlossary
Anycast
A routing method where many servers in different places announce the same IP address. Internet routing (BGP) sends each user to the nearest of them, so users connect to a close server and a flood spreads across all of them.
Network
In Quorum#
You can research Anycast in Series C after GeoDNS. It does not change latency yet. GeoDNS is the working way to shorten the user hop: it sends each region's Users to their own region, or to the nearest region that is still up.
Read next#
BGP (Border Gateway Protocol), GeoDNS, CDN (content delivery network), DDoS (distributed denial of service)