Cloudflare Stream Delivery
Cloudflare’s global Anycast network ensures fast video delivery, with shorter video startup times and reduced buffering, no matter where your visitors are located.
We cache and deliver HTTP(S) video content, including adaptive bitrate formats, to your visitors at a flat-rate price, saving you on origin server bandwidth costs.
Our rich ecosystem of performance and security services, tuned specifically for video, offer optimal uptime and delivery.
Challenges of High-Quality Video Delivery
Visitors today expect fast, high-quality online video experiences, regardless of device, connection type, or location. Video services which fail to meet visitor expectations can experience lower engagement and revenues. Every incremental one-second buffering delay for video playback results in a six percent increase in abandonment rates.1
Cloudflare’s Stream Delivery
Cloudflare’s global Anycast network ensures fast online video experiences, with shorter video startup times and reduced buffering, no matter where your visitors are located. Flat-rate bandwidth pricing ensures predictable costs, even in the case of legitimate traffic spikes or volumetric DDoS attack.
Fast, Global Video Content Delivery Network
Cloudflare’s content delivery network (CDN) has 152 data centers across 58 countries, including 22 in China, ensuring the fastest delivery of high-quality video content at global scale. We ensure fast online video experiences, with shorter video startup times and reduced buffering. Video files can be selectively purged from Cloudflare’s entire network cache within seconds.
Flat-Rate Bandwidth Pricing
Cloudflare caches and delivers video content to your visitors at a flat-rate price, while saving you money on origin server bandwidth costs. Cloudflare never charges overage fees for legitimate bandwidth spikes or DDoS attacks.
To minimize origin server requests and take bandwidth savings even further, Cloudflare’s Tiered Caching uses regional tier 1 data centers to control caching and propagation of content across Cloudflare’s network.
Packaged Functionalities
Cloudflare offers a rich ecosystem of performance and security services tuned specifically for video to provide the best uptime and delivery. Advanced business logic can be applied at Cloudflare’s network edge to ensure special handling and tagging for video content on the Cloudflare network.
SSL / TLS 1.3 Encryption
Encryption is applied to all files proxied through Cloudflare’s network to prevent snooping, and ensure a secure connection between visitors and your website. SSL / TLS encryption also prevents mixed content errors on your website.
Key Features
Flat-rate CDN Bandwidth Pricing
Major Video Codecs Supported
DDoS Protection Included
152 Global Anycast Network
Tiered Caching for Additional Bandwidth Savings
Integrated WAF and Rate Limiting
Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) Encoded Video Supported
Fast Purging of Video Content Across Network
SSL / TLS 1.3 Encryption Included
1 https://www.appnexus.com/en/company/news-and-events/press-releases/news-2016-0303