Residential Network Improvements in US East
We are thrilled to announce another major improvement to our residential network performance—a game-changing upgrade to our US East Coast infrastructure!
Following our recent network upgrades earlier this year, we've continued working on performance improvements across all regions. Today our US East Coast infrastructure has received a major upgrade that delivers material performance improvements in terms of latency and load capacity.
Why US East Matters
The US East Coast represents a critical component of our network, with 40% of all residential traffic originating from clients or client infrastructure in this region.
This area serves as a major internet hub, with Google, AWS, and Azure maintaining their largest and most extensive datacenter presence in US East locations including Ashburn, New York, and Atlanta. These cities contain some of the largest concentration of web hosting infrastructure in North America, making low-latency connections in this region essential for accessing a significant portion of internet services.
Performance Improvements
Earlier this year we improved US East Coast latency performance by 39% but today we’re happy to announce a further 61% decrease in latency performance.
We've also expanded our server capacity in the region by 400%. This increase provides more resources for handling traffic and improves overall network stability during high-usage periods as we continue to grow our customer base.
Technical Implementation
We've achieved these improvements by expanding our physical infrastructure with new Points of Presence (PoPs) in our bare-metal server network. These servers host the backconnect proxy systems that power our residential network.
We're continuing to invest in infrastructure expansion, with plans to deploy additional PoPs in the Central USA, South America, and the Middle East by year-end.
Results for East Coast Users
Customers using our East Coast infrastructure will see:
- Faster response times for proxy connections
- More consistent performance during peak hours
- Improved reliability due to increased capacity, redundancy and failover capability
What is next?
This East Coast upgrade is a small part of our ongoing infrastructure improvements planned for this year. We'll continue updating our network across all regions to improve performance, reliability, cost, node count and feature set.
