Pangolin’s points of presence (PoPs) are strategically located servers around the world that serve as entry points for user traffic to your applications. They form the foundation of Pangolin’s distributed architecture, providing high availability and optimal performance.

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What Are Points of Presence?

Entry Points

Handle incoming user requests before routing them to your applications.

Global Coverage

Located regionally to minimize latency for users in different regions.

High Availability

Multiple locations ensure your applications remain accessible even if individual locations fail.

Authentication

Verify user identity and enforce access policies before allowing access.
Think of points of presence as the “front doors” to your applications - users connect to the closest one, and it securely routes their requests to your backend services.

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How Points of Presence Work

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Ingress Routing

Request is routed to the closest available point of presence. If one goes down, there is always another point available.
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Authentication

User identity is verified at the point of presence before getting routed to your backend.
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Tunnel Selection

Pangolin selects the optimal tunnel route to your backend service. Site tunnel clients (Newt) connect to the optimal point of presence.
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Failover Handling

If the primary tunnel fails, traffic automatically switches to an alternative route.

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Advantages of Points of Presence

Low Latency

Users connect to the geographically closest point of presence.

Optimized Routing

Automatic selection of the best available tunnel to route to your backend services.

Edge Computing

Provide ingress to thin-clients on private networks via tunnels.

Health Monitoring

Each point of presence continuously monitors its health and connectivity to your backend.

Regional Redundancy

Multiple points of presence ensure your applications remain accessible during regional outages.

Fault Tolerance

No single point of failure - if one location goes down, there is always a way back to your application.

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Deployment Models

Pangolin Cloud

Network of points of presence with automatic failover and routing to your backend services.

Hybrid

Host your own multiple points of presence with cloud coordination and automatic failover. Data always transits yours servers.

Self-Hosted

Fully self-hosted, self-contained Pangolin server acting as a single point of presence.
Self-hosted Pangolin provides only a single point of presence and is not highly available. Consider Pangolin Cloud or hybrid deployment for production environments requiring high availability.
Hybrid deployment is ideal for organizations that need high availability while maintaining control over their infrastructure and data transit.

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Contact Us

For hybrid deployments, points of presence, and high availability contact us: