{"id":8664,"date":"2026-05-20T15:19:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecatnetworks.com\/?p=982212"},"modified":"2026-05-20T15:19:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:19:41","slug":"edge-packaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/edge-packaging\/","title":{"rendered":"EDGE Packaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/edge-packaging.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading v-from-wysiwyg\">Overview of Edge offerings<\/h2>\n<p class=\"v-from-wysiwyg\">BlueCat\u2019s standard Edge offering starts with an intelligent caching layer called Smart Cache. You can also unlock advanced capabilities by activating add-ons on top of Smart Cache for security, networking, and cloud. Data retention options for lengths of up to one year are also available. Pricing varies based on the number of active IP addresses in use.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading v-from-wysiwyg\">Features of Edge\u2019s standard and add-on offerings<\/h2>\n<p class=\"v-from-wysiwyg\">Smart Cache, BlueCat\u2019s standard Edge offering, is a first hop caching layer that allows you to resolve DNS requests for clients recursively or by replying from cache for faster responses. It includes basic production environments, standard weekly reports, and two namespaces to support most data migrations. One namespace is used for internal queries and the other for external queries, dramatically reducing the amount of recursion and authoritative DNS query activity. Data retention is not included.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-from-wysiwyg\"><strong>Networking add-on: <\/strong>The networking add-on features unlimited DNS namespaces, supported by seven days of DNS log data stored in the cloud.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-from-wysiwyg\"><strong>Cloud add-on:<\/strong> BlueCat Edge Resolver, Edge\u2019s cloud add-on, allows Edge to perform discovery and resolution of cloud DNS data across major cloud service providers. The networking add-on is a pre-requisite for the cloud add-on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-from-wysiwyg\"><strong>DNS GSLB add-on: <\/strong>Dynamically prioritize answers based on real-time health status against network topology. The networking add-on is a prerequisite for the DNS GSLB add-on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-from-wysiwyg\"><strong>Security add-on: <\/strong>The security add-on features BlueCat\u2019s Threat Intelligence feed for DNS request monitoring, redirecting and blocking policies, and 14 days of DNS log data stored in cloud. Additionally, you get:<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-from-wysiwyg\">\u2022 DNS identity integration to capture user identity information in DNS log data<br \/>\u2022 Advanced analytics<br \/>\u2022 SIEM integration<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/bluecatnetworks.com\/resources\/edge-packaging\/\">BlueCat Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview of Edge offerings BlueCat\u2019s standard Edge offering starts with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[91],"class_list":["post-8664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","tag-resources"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","chromenews-featured":"","chromenews-large":"","chromenews-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Blue Cat","author_link":"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/index.php\/author\/bluecat\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/index.php\/category\/resources\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Resources<\/a>","tag_info":"Resources","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}