Cloudflare Spectrum

Spectrum — NEW

The Internet is more than the web. It comprises many other TCP/ UDP applications that have the same fundamental needs as web services – speed, security, and reliability.

Cloudflare Spectrum is a reverse proxy product that extends the benefits of Cloudflare to all TCP/UDP applications.

Spectrum — NEW

Real-time traffic acceleration

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Speed is an integral part of many applications. Often, applications such as RDP, VoIP, RTMP or custom financial and gaming applications require low end-to-end network latency to deliver consistent, reliable, and ‘real-time’ experiences to end-users.

Cloudflare Spectrum integrates with Argo Smart Routing to send TCP traffic faster than the ‘best-effort’ Internet. Cloudflare’s network learns from the traffic of millions of Internet properties, enabling machine-learning (ML) based intelligent routing around network congestion in real-time.

Based on synthetic measurement tests between Western America and Singapore, we saw a nearly 17% decrease in the TCP roundtrip time (RTT) on Cloudflare's network when compared to sending the traffic directly on the Internet.

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Best-in-class DDoS protection

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With a network mitigation capacity of over 248 Tbps, instant threat detection, a time to mitigate (TTM) under 3 seconds for most threats, Spectrum proxies and protects your applications against the most sophisticated and multi-vector DDoS attacks. With a network of data centers that spans over 310 cities in 120 countries, Spectrum is well-positioned to stop DDoS attacks in the cloud closest to the attack source, well before they reach your application server.

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IP Firewall included

IP Firewall

Spectrum comes with a completely software-defined IP firewall that can be configured right from the dashboard or API. You can allow or deny individual IPs or IP ranges to granularly control traffic to your application server. You can also configure rules to block visitors from a specified country or even an Autonomous System Number (ASN).

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Increased reliability with faster failovers

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In the event of a downtime, all active TCP connections and UDP traffic automatically failover to an alternate healthy server in a configured load balancing pool to prevent downtime. By dynamically distributing it to the most available and responsive server pools, Cloudflare Spectrum and Load Balancing together help increase the uptime of your services.

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Real-time analytics

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Get in-depth information on ingress, egress traffic, and threats mitigated using Spectrum.

  • See real-time data transfer (ingress and egress) as well as the no. of concurrent connections to your service
  • Request detailed log data on every single connection event using a RESTful API
  • Automate log data delivery to a cloud storage provider of your choice
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Key Features

Proxy any TCP/UDP traffic through Cloudflare
Allow or deny IP addresses
Integrated performance benefits
Real-time application-specific analytics
Allow TLS passthrough traffic
Easy setup through dashboard UI or API
Load balance layer 4 traffic across multiple servers
Supports log share to public cloud storage buckets (Enterprise plans only)

Forrester named Cloudflare a “Leader” in DDoS mitigation

Forrester Wave report on DDoS Mitigation Solutions

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
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Forrester Wave report on DDoS Mitigation Solutions

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Cloudflare Spectrum – Availability by plan

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5GB monthly data allowance $1/GB overage fees

10GB monthly data allowance $1/GB overage fees

5GB monthly data allowance $1/GB overage fees

10GB monthly data allowance $1/GB overage fees

10GB monthly data allowance $1/GB overage fees

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Speed, security, and reliability

Cloudflare Spectrum features:
  • Proxy any TCP/UDP traffic through Cloudflare
  • Allow or deny IP addresses
  • Integrated performance benefits
  • Flexible and Full TLS
  • Real-time application-specific analytics
  • Allow TLS passthrough traffic
  • Easy setup through dashboard UI or API
  • Load balance layer 4 traffic across multiple servers
  • Supports log share to public cloud storage buckets (Enterprise plans only)

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