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Secure, accelerate, and transform enterprise networks

Securely connect data centers, branch offices, and cloud services with Cloudflare's connectivity cloud
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Instead of building and operating infrastructure, use the Cloudflare network to expand coverage for your business operations around the world.

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Benefits

Superior security. Unparalleled connectivity.

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Any-to-any connectivity

Connect users, offices, and cloud infrastructure, with peerless performance and reliability.

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Comprehensive networking services

Use Cloudflare to connect and secure inbound traffic, outbound traffic, and east-west traffic across the cloud and your organization.

Centralized management and visibility

Manage networking and security from a single pane of glass. According to a Forrester study, Cloudflare improved security team efficiency by 29% over three years.

Analyst Recognition

What do analysts say about us?

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Cloudflare Named A ‘Leader’ in The Forrester Wave™: DDoS Mitigation Solutions, Q1 2021

According to Forrester, 'Cloudflare protects against DDoS from the edge,and fast,' and that 'customer references view Cloudflare's edge network as a compelling way to protect and deliver applications.'

Cloudflare named Leader in 2022 GigaOm Radar Report for DDoS Protection

Cloudflare's DDoS protection solutions help organizations protect their applications,website, and networks - without sacrificing performance. Our unmetered autonomous DDoS mitigation combined with 321 Tbps Tbps of network edge capacity can absord and deflect even the largest volumetric attacks.

How Cloudflare transforms and accelerates networks

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Modernize your network by augmenting or replacing your MPLS circuits or SD-WAN with Cloudflare. Connect using anycast IPsec or GRE tunnels, or use direct physical/virtual connections with Cloudflare Network Interconnect.

  • Connect users to Internet, cloud, and on-premises resources

  • Connect offices and data centers over hybrid infrastructure

  • Use Cloudflare’s global network to expand capacity and coverage as your business grows

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The CIO's guide to WAN transformation

Consolidating security across employees, applications, and networks to accelerate digital transformation

Applied has increasingly prioritized digital transformation initiatives to help it serve larger, more demanding enterprise customers. When Chief Information Security Officer Tanner Randolph started in 2021, this meant re-evaluating Applied’s technology architecture, seeking opportunities to become more agile, more efficient, and more secure.

Starting in 2022, Applied Systems began consolidating large swaths of security and networking functionalities on Cloudflare.

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"Cloudflare scales with us… Cloudflare can handle the increased traffic without us adding network appliances or buying additional bandwidth. Using our previous vendors would have more than doubled our costs."

Network services case studies

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Melbourne Airport

Melbourne Airport streamlined their complex cyber security infrastructure and mitigated DDoS threats from potential hacktivists by using Cloudflare to ensure uptime for all traveler services.

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Wikimedia Foundation

Cloudflare Magic Transit got Wikimedia’s network back online after a massive DDoS attack, and it continues to safeguard the security and reliability of their data centers.

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Nasadiya Technologies

Using Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud, Nasadiya Technologies delivers content to readers across India and around the world while protecting its online publishing platform, against plagiarism.

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Werner Enterprises

Werner Enterprises moved its legacy applications to the cloud, protected its users from email-borne threats, and consolidated its network security with Cloudflare.

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Applied Systems

Applied Systems unifies security and networking with Cloudflare, reducing risk, improving productivity for employees, and delivering superior cloud-native experiences for customers.

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Protecting hybrid workforces both now and in the future

Network services products
Magic WAN

Connect and secure your branch offices, headquarters, data centers, cloud VPCs and SD-WANs using the Cloudflare network.

Magic Transit

Protect your networks, data centers and multi-cloud infrastructure from DDoS attacks.

Magic Firewall

Enforce consistent network security policies across your entire WAN, without backhauling traffic or creating choke points.

Resources

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Developing a strategy for your network modernization

Read Cloudflare’s perspective on common network modernization challenges and how to overcome them.

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How to reduce cloud costs in an uncertain economy

Learn where the hidden fees are, cost effective alternatives, and ways to make the cloud a money-saving option again.

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