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title: "Global Network Infrastructure"
description: "Build on the world's fastest cloud CDN network. 330+ cities, anycast routing, Argo smart routing, and low latency worldwide."
url: "https://www.cloudflare.com/solutions/network"
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# Network

> Build on the world's fastest cloud network

Ship applications that feel instantaneous everywhere. Cloudflare's anycast network puts compute, storage, and security within <50 ms of 95% of Internet users — no knobs to tune, no infrastructure to babysit.

## Benefits

### Low latency by default

330+ cities with data-centers and smart routing cut round-trip times by up to 30%.

### Global resilience

Anycast and automatic failover keep apps online — even through regional outages or DDoS attacks.

### Pay only for actual compute time

Usage-based billing means no idle capacity costs or cross-zone egress fees.

## Features

### Anycast network (330+ cities)

One IP worldwide: traffic auto-lands at the closest edge for consistent low latency.

### Argo smart routing

Dynamic, congestion-aware paths shave ~30% off median response time versus standard BGP routes.

### Tiered & regional caching

Hot content stays near users while you control data-sovereignty boundaries.

### Modern transport protocols

HTTP/3 & QUIC are enabled by default — no config, no extra cost.

### Global load Balancing & failover

Sub-second health checks with instant failover keep requests flowing during incidents.

### Workers runtime

Serverless functions start in <5 ms cold-start, run near the requester, and scale globally.

### Latency & origin insights

Built-in analytics surface per-country, per-colo, and per-route performance — no extra agent needed.

## Use Cases

### Realtime APIs and multiplayer games

When lag needs to be eliminated

### High-traffic e-commerce

Online shopping and ticket sales where milliseconds = revenue

### Startups

Hyperscaler performance without an ops burden

### Smart routing included

Argo automatically finds the fastest path for each request, reducing latency by up to 30% with zero configuration.

### Global load balancing for zero config

Automatically distributes traffic across multiple origins with health checks and failover built-in

### Edge-first architecture

Built on Workers to provide an out of the box edge computing layer, with global distribution included

### Edge-optimized

Your code runs at the edge in 330+ cities worldwide — with [KV storage](https://developers.cloudflare.com/kv/), [D1 databases](https://developers.cloudflare.com/d1/), and [R2 object storage](https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/) available globally.

### Smart routing ready

Deploy both frontend and backend together — from [API routes](https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/functions/api-routes/) to [serverless functions](https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/functions/), all with automatic optimization.

### Resilient by design

Built-in [DDoS protection](https://developers.cloudflare.com/ddos/), [WAF](https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/), and [failover](https://developers.cloudflare.com/load-balancing/) keep your applications online during incidents.

## Get Started

- [Sign up](https://dash.cloudflare.com/sign-up): Create a Cloudflare account
- [Documentation](https://developers.cloudflare.com): Read the full documentation

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*This is a markdown version of [https://www.cloudflare.com/solutions/network](https://www.cloudflare.com/solutions/network) for AI/LLM consumption.*