Rapid.Space re6st provides a global hybrid, peer-to-peer, mesh network with latency optimisation based on babel protocol (RFC 6126). Every re6st node is assigned a full /64 public IPv6 address range that can be shared with neighbouring device on the same local area network (LAN).

Thanks to re6st, all computers or servers which share the same IPv6 prefix can communicate each other across the world and circumvent all sorts of congestions and latency issues that exist nowadays on Internet. 

Thanks to re6st, all computers or servers receive a public IPv6 range which can be used to communicate to and from other IPv6 prefixes.

What is Rapid.Space re6st used for?

Rapid.Space re6st can be used to:

• interconnect different cloud providers with lower latency and reduced congestion;
• interconnect all local area networks (LAN) of a company with low latency and reduced congestion;
• interconnect cloud providers and CDN with low latency and reduced congestion;
• run a self-hosted server at home and access remotely through a CDN.

What are the different types of Rapid.Space re6st services?

There are three types of re6st services:

• re6st Free: shared IPv6 range with no warranty;
• re6st Production: shared IPv6 range with SLA;
• re6st Dedicated: dedicated IPv6 range with SLA.

re6st Free provides a free IPv6 address range on a shared IPv6 prefix but no warranty in terms of performance or availability. Users of re6st Free must follow operation guidelines or may be revoked without notice. In particular, users of re6st Free must reconfirm each token monthly. re6st Free is intended for hobbyists, education, developers and non critical self-hosted applications.

re6st Production provides an IPv6 address range on a shared IPv6 prefix with warranties in terms of performance or availability. Users of re6st Production who do not follow operation guidelines will be notified individually and given short notice before being revoked. re6st Production is intended for developers, corporations and critical applications.

re6st Dedicated provides an IPv6 address range on a dedicated IPv6 prefix and a dedicated management platform with warranties in terms of performance or availability. Users of re6st Dedicated who do not follow operation guidelines will be notified based on custom workflow and given configurable notice before being revoked. re6st Dedicated is intended for developers, corporations and critical applications which require either a dedicated IPv6 range, a dedicated IPv4 range, tunnel encryption, guaranteed bandwidth, custom revocation workflow, etc.

Is Rapid.Space re6st available in China? 

re6st service is available in China under the name Grandenet with official license (中华人民共和国增值电信业务经营许可证：沪A1-20140091)..

re6st service is intended to be used in China as a reliable way to deliver applications over the Internet, also known as, Application Delivery Network (ADN). It provides a solution to congestion problems that happen very often on China's Internet and are further described in the article "China Internet: why is it unreliable and how to fix it?".

re6st service in China can also be used to interconnect the local areas network (LAN) of a company.

re6st service in China can also be used for self-hosting in China in conjunction with a CDN located in China. However, ICP license is mandatory for CDN application, and is thus not allowed under China's Law to foreign companies without legal presence in China or to foreigners without residence permit in China.

re6st service in China can not be used to circumvent congestion or blocked access to foreign cloud services such as Google, Facebook, Wikipedia, YouTube, etc.

Price outside China

The price of Rapid.Space service outside China is defined below:

Price in China

The price of Rapid.Space standard service inside China is defined below:

The following additional options and service costs are required due to the specific nature of China's Internet:

Please note that prices for "International traffic" or "Dedicated CDN inside China" in re6st Dedicated are provided here for reference. Customers may deploy re6st Dedicated on existing dedicated lines or use 3rd party providers for cloud and Internet transit. In any case, there is no warranty that international traffic will not face unexpected congestion, unless international traffic is purchased from a Chinese, national telecommunication company (China Telecom, China Mobile, China Unicom).

Price examples

Independent developer - IPv6

A developer has a 3 servers (AWS, OVH, Hertzner) and 2 laptops. He wants to interconnect them over IPv6 using Rapid.Space re6st Free deployed with one-line installer on servers and laptops.

US company - CDN

A US company has 6 servers hosted on different cloud providers (AWS, Google, OVH, Hertzner) and wants them to benefit from a more resilient interconnection between servers and clouds. This company also wants to benefit from a global CDN (HTTP2) with presence in Europe, Asia and Americas so that users can access cloud backends with better performance and reliability.

This company uses Rapid.Space re6st Production deployed with one-line installer on each cloud server together with the optional CDN of re6st.

European company - LAN

A company has 6 local area networks outside China. This company wants each of the 6 network to benefit from a public IPv6 address range and communicate over IPv6 between the different branches of the company using encrypted protocols such as HTTPS or ssh. This company uses Rapid.Space re6st Production deployed on a RaspberryPi or similar CPE.

Chinese company with Japan branch - LAN

A company has 4 local area networks (LAN) in China and 2 abroad. This company wants each of the 6 network to benefit from a public IPv6 address range and communicate over IPv6 between the different branches of the company using encrypted protocols such as HTTPS or ssh. This company uses Grandenet re6st Production deployed on a RaspberryPi or similar CPE.

Due to China's specific implementation of Internet, Traffic across offices can not always be based on P2P tunnels and thus requires an average of 2 hops to reach another office (sometimes no hop, sometimes 4 hops). The average traffic between offices is 1000 GB per month.

European company with US branch - Dedicated

A company has 4 local area networks (LAN) in Europe and 2 abroad. This company wants each of the 6 network to benefit from a public IPv6 address range and communicate over IPv6 between the different branches of the company using clear text protocols such as FTP. The company wants all communication outside the company to be encrypted. This company uses Rapid.Space re6st Dedicated deployed on a RaspberryPi or similar CPE with a custom configuration which includes OpenVPN tunnel encryption, dedicated IPv6 prefix, dedicated IPv4 prefix, dedicated management platform and dedicated CDN.

Each dedicated CDN node plays at the same time the role of a HTTP2 CDN and re6st mesh router for better network performance, lower latency and higher resiliency.

The total number of tokens is 10: 6 (LAN) + 4 (CDN).

Chinese company with US branch - Dedicated, pay per Mbps

A company has 4 local area networks (LAN) in China and 2 abroad. This company wants each of the 6 network to benefit from a public IPv6 address range and communicate over IPv6 between the different branches of the company using clear text protocols such as FTP. The company wants all communication outside the company to be encrypted. This company uses Grandenet re6st Dedicated deployed on a RaspberryPi or similar CPE with a custom configuration which includes OpenVPN tunnel encryption, dedicated IPv6 prefix, dedicated IPv4 prefix, dedicated management platform and dedicated CDN.

Each dedicated CDN node plays at the same time the role of a HTTP2 CDN and re6st mesh router for better network performance, lower latency and higher resiliency.

International traffic relies on a combination of dedicated peers by China Telecom (CT) and Umbra Technologies with a total bandwidth of 50 Mbps. National traffic relies on China cloud providers with a total bandwidth of 150 Mbps.

The total number of tokens is 13: 6 (LAN) + 7 (CDN).

Chinese company with European branch - Dedicated, pay per GB

A company has 4 local area networks (LAN) in China and 2 abroad. This company wants each of the 6 network to benefit from a public IPv6 address range and communicate over IPv6 between the different branches of the company using clear text protocols such as FTP. The company wants all communication outside the company to be encrypted. This company uses Grandenet re6st Dedicated deployed on a RaspberryPi or similar CPE with a custom configuration which includes OpenVPN tunnel encryption, dedicated IPv6 prefix, dedicated IPv4 prefix, dedicated management platform and dedicated CDN.

Each dedicated CDN node plays at the same time the role of a HTTP2 CDN and re6st mesh router for better network performance, lower latency and higher resiliency.

International traffic relies only on CDN nodes. Customer pays per GB and thus benefits from 100 Mbps on each node. 

Due to China's specific implementation of Internet, Traffic across offices can not always be based on P2P tunnels and thus requires an average of 2 hops to reach another office (sometimes no hop, sometimes 4 hops). The average traffic between offices is 1000 GB per month.

The total number of tokens is 11: 6 (LAN) + 5 (CDN).