2025-05-19
IPv4 is expensive, and moving network resources around is hard. Previously, when customers wanted to use multiple Cloudflare services, they had to bring a new address range....
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2024-05-31
Cloudflare is adding support for all TCP and UDP traffic to our Private Network Load Balancing load balancing solution, extending the benefits of Private Network Load Balancing to more than just ...
2023-06-20
Today, Cloudflare is super excited to announce that we’re bringing traffic acceleration to customer’s UDP traffic. Now, you can improve the latency of UDP-based applications like video games, voice calls, and video meetings by up to 17%...
2023-04-12
Learn how the new and improved Network Analytics dashboard provides security professionals insights into their DDoS attack and traffic landscape...
2022-09-19
Cloudflare’s Advanced DDoS Alerts provide tailored and actionable notifications in real-time...
September 19, 2022 1:45 PM
Cloudflare’s new Adaptive DDoS Protection system learns your unique traffic patterns and constantly adapts to protect you against sophisticated DDoS attacks...
May 17, 2022 3:46 PM
We’re excited to announce the availability of Network Analytics Logs for maximum visibility into L3/4 traffic and DDoS attacks...
December 09, 2021 1:59 PM
Cloudflare Enterprise customers using the Magic Transit and Spectrum services can now tune and tweak their L3/4 DDoS protection settings directly from the Cloudflare dashboard or via the Cloudflare API....
November 23, 2021 1:58 PM
Announcing general availability of Argo for Spectrum, a way to turbo-charge any TCP based application....
November 07, 2020 12:00 PM
We’re excited to announce the expansion of the Network Analytics dashboard to Spectrum customers on the Enterprise plan. Additionally, this announcement introduces two major dashboard improvements for easier reporting and investigation....
August 21, 2020 11:00 AM
As part of my onboarding as an intern on the Spectrum (a layer 4 reverse proxy) team, I learned that many internal services dogfood Spectrum, as they are exposed to the Internet and benefit from layer 4 DDoS protection....
July 30, 2020 3:00 PM
Today we’re thrilled to announce general availability of Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) across our Layer 7 products as well as Spectrum and Magic Transit services. ...
April 13, 2020 7:06 PM
Cloudflare now covers SSH, RDP and Minecraft, offering DDoS protection and increased network performance. Spectrum pay-as-you-go now available on all paid plans....
April 07, 2020 7:00 AM
Crossbow is a tool that is now allowing Cloudflare’s Technical Support Engineers to perform diagnostic activities from running commands (like traceroutes, cURL requests and DNS queries) to debugging product features and performance features using bespoke tools....
September 20, 2019 3:53 PM
We noticed something weird - the TCP sockets which we thought should have been closed - were lingering around. We realized we don't really understand when TCP sockets are supposed to time out! We naively thought enabling TCP keepalives would be enough... but it isn't!...
March 20, 2019 3:01 PM
Today, we're announcing Spectrum for UDP. Spectrum for UDP works the same as Spectrum for TCP: Spectrum sits between your clients and your origin. Incoming connections are proxied through, whilst applying our DDoS protection and IP Firewall rules. ...
October 25, 2018 1:00 PM
We’re excited to announce the full integration of Cloudflare Spectrum with Load Balancing. Combining Spectrum with Load Balancing enables traffic management of TCP connections utilising the same battle tested Load Balancer our customers already use for billions of HTTP requests e...
July 26, 2018 6:35 PM
In Q2, Cloudflare released several products which enable a better Internet “end-to-end” — from the mobile client to host infrastructure. Now, anyone from an individual developer to large companies and governments, can control, secure, and accelerate their applications from “perim...
April 17, 2018 10:11 PM
In previous blog post we discussed how we use the TPROXY iptables module to power Cloudflare Spectrum. With TPROXY we solved a major technical issue on the server side, and we thought we might find another use for it on the client side of our product....
April 12, 2018 1:01 PM
We are introducing Spectrum, which brings Cloudflare’s security and acceleration to the whole spectrum of TCP ports and protocols for our Enterprise customers. It’s DDoS protection for any box, container or VM that connects to the internet....
