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Magic Transit
Extending Cloudflare to all your networks
When organizations need to protect their networks, IT departments typically turn to legacy hardware boxes or cloud ‘scrubbing’ providers. But traditional solutions just aren’t designed to fulfill the Internet’s basic needs: security, performance, and reliability.
Magic Transit is a network security solution that offers DDoS protection, traffic acceleration, and much more from every Cloudflare data center— for on-premise, cloud-hosted, and hybrid networks.
The next step in infrastructure architecture
Cloudflare Magic Transit protects entire IP subnets from DDoS attacks, while also accelerating network traffic. It uses Cloudflare’s global network to mitigate attacks, employing standards-based networking protocols, like BGP, GRE, and IPsec, for routing and encapsulation.
All your network assets, whether on-premise or in private or public hosted cloud environments are safeguarded.
The Cloudflare global network
Cloudflare delivers DDoS mitigation using our entire network. This network has a capacity of over 209 Tbps and spans more than 300 cities in 100 countries. Our network allows us to sit approximately 50 ms from about 95% of the Internet-connected population globally. This is especially important for latency-sensitive applications such as Voice over IP (VoIP) and custom gaming protocols.
Ultra-low Time to Mitigate (TTM)
With a heritage in DDoS mitigation and a vast library of known attacks, malicious traffic is identified at a Cloudflare data center closest to the source within seconds. Automatic mitigation techniques are applied immediately and most malicious traffic is blocked in less than 3 seconds.
Pick your network function
Cloudflare Magic Transit comes integrated with our best-in-class network firewall, allowing you to configure granular allow/deny rules for IP ranges and propagate changes in seconds. Want application level firewalling? Configure optional TLS termination and start inspecting payloads. Want a load balancer? You got it. Want to write a serverless Cloudflare Worker to modify traffic on the fly? You can do that, too.
Magic Transit comes natively integrated with all of Cloudflare’s L4 and L7 products.
Traffic acceleration
Cloudflare's network serves 46 million HTTP requests per second on average. With every bit we move, the network gets smarter and faster.
When integrated with Argo Smart Routing, Cloudflare Magic Transit will deliver clean traffic back to your network using the fastest, most reliable links in real-time.
Key Features
Forrester named Cloudflare a “Leader” in DDoS mitigation
Cloudflare has been recognized as a Leader in the 2021 Forrester Wave™: DDoS Mitigation Solutions. Cloudflare achieved the highest scores across fifteen evaluation criteria, including:
- Product vision
- Performance
- Speed of implementation
- Response automation
- Security operations centers
Cloudflare network services
Magic Transit is just one part of the Cloudflare network security and solutions family. Cloudflare offers built-in services — like DDoS mitigation, branch connectivity, software-defined Zero-Trust functionality, and network firewalling — on a single global network that replaces patchwork appliances. Connect, secure, and accelerate your corporate network with Cloudflare.
Learn more about Magic Transit
Demo: Cloudflare network services
This video demo shows how to use Cloudflare's Magic Transit, Magic WAN, and Magic Firewall to stop DDoS attacks, establish security rules, and simplify connectivity between complex global networks.
Cloudflare Magic Transit protects networks while improving performance
In this paper, we present results of Catchpoint tests we’ve run over our network to quantify the impact of latency with Magic Transit. These test results demonstrate that network performance improved for the test customer when traffic was routed over Cloudflare Magic Transit.
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