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Content Delivery Network

Learn how to improve latency, performance, and security using our global Anycast network, Tiered Cache, and Argo Smart Routing.

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Security Architecture

Learn how Cloudflare has built and operates a vast global security network and what services on this platform can be used by you to protect your public and private resources.

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SASE

Learn how to leverage Cloudflare's SASE platform as part of your Zero Trust initiatives.

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Cloudflare Security Architecture

Learn how Cloudflare has built and operates a vast global security network and what services on this platform can be used by you to protect your public and private resources.

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Architecture using Cloudflare SASE with Microsoft

Learn about the many ways Cloudflare's Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) integrates with Microsoft's cloud services to bolster security and performance in hybrid environments.

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Load Balancing

Cloudflare Load Balancing is a global and local traffic management solution that allows organizations to host applications for a global user base while vastly reducing concerns of maintenance, failover, resiliency, and scalability while fully integrating with Cloudflare’s other services.

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Evolving to a SASE architecture with Cloudflare

Cloudflare's secure access service edge (SASE) platform protects applications, users, devices, and networks. By adopting Cloudflare, organizations move away from a patchwork of hardware appliances and other point solutions to consolidate security and networking capabilities on one unified control plane.

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Content Delivery Network

Cloudflare CDN helps address the challenges customers face around latency, performance, availability, redundancy, security, and costs. The Cloudflare CDN leverages Cloudflare’s global Anycast network, Tiered Cache, and Argo Smart Routing to deliver optimized results while saving costs for customers.

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Magic Transit

Learn about the key architecture, functionalities, and network deployment options of Cloudflare Magic Transit — a BGP-based DDoS protection and traffic acceleration service for Internet-facing network infrastructure.

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Multi-vendor

Understand why some customers deploy a multiple or dual vendor approach and how Cloudflare can be incorporated into such a solution. Specifically, this document describes how a multi-vendor approach for application security and performance can be accomplished and is targeted for architects.

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Magic WAN Connector deployment options

Magic WAN Connector is used to on-ramp your traffic to Cloudflare. Once the device has access to the Internet, it automatically connects to the Cloudflare network. Learn how to introduce it in your network to support various use cases.

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Control and data plane architectural pattern for Durable Objects

Durable Objects allow you to scale infinitely by sharding your application at the resource-level. This document describes an architectural pattern to design your control and data planes for resilient and performant applications.

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Optimizing and securing connected transportation systems

Use Cloudflare to provide a secure, high-performance solution for both fixed-location and roaming connected devices. Key features include mutual TLS, API security, DDoS protection, and content cache.

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Optimizing device roaming experience with geo-located IPs

Ensure mobile connected, roaming devices are correctly localized and secured using Cloudflare.

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Zero Trust and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Cloudflare Zero Trust can often replace costly Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) all together, but in other cases can help secure access to it or from it. This document provides clarity around each of these use cases.

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