Purchase, operate, and maintain network function specific hardware appliances.Source connectivity to the Internet from transit providers (ISPs).Traditionally, CIOs trying to connect their IP networks to the Internet do this in two steps: When we talk to our customers managing on-premise networks, we consistently hear a few things: building and managing their networks is expensive and painful, and those on-premise networks aren’t going away anytime soon. So we built the tools ourselves! We grew up in the age of software-defined networking and network function virtualization, and the principles behind these modern concepts run through everything we do. Scaling and securing the IP network Cloudflare is built on has required tooling that would have been impossible or exorbitantly expensive to buy. We’ve been laying the groundwork for Magic Transit for as long as Cloudflare has been in existence, since 2010. This means no more diverting traffic to small numbers of distant “scrubbing centers” or relying on on-premise hardware to mitigate attacks on your infrastructure. Magic Transit deploys IP security services across our entire global network. Magic Transit is designed from the ground up to minimize these trade-offs: performance and security are better together. Magic Transit will connect back to your origin infrastructure over Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) tunnels, private network interconnects (PNI), or other forms of peering.Įnterprises are often forced to pick between performance and security when deploying IP network services. Once packets hit our network, traffic is inspected for attacks, filtered, steered, accelerated, and sent onward to the origin. Today, our anycast edge network spans 193 cities in more than 90 countries around the world.

Traffic is ingested by the Cloudflare Network with anycast and BGP, announcing your company’s IP address space and extending your network presence globally. Magic Transit is built on the standards and networking primitives you are familiar with, but delivered from Cloudflare’s global edge network as a service.

Out-of-the-box, Magic Transit deployed in front of your on-premise network protects it from DDoS attack and enables provisioning of a full suite of virtual network functions, including advanced packet filtering, load balancing, and traffic management tools. Magic Transit provides secure, performant, and reliable IP connectivity to the Internet. Today we’re excited to announce Cloudflare Magic Transit.

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