Tanner

2 articles by Tanner.

500 Tbps of capacity: 16 years of scaling our global network

Cloudflare’s global network has officially crossed 500 Tbps of external capacity, enough to route more than 20% of the web and absorb the largest DDoS attacks ever recorded.

Tanner·April 10, 2026Security

Cloudflare Backbone: A Fast Lane on the Busy Internet Highway

It’s important that our network continues to help bring improved performance and resiliency to the Internet. To accomplish this, we built our own backbone.

Tanner·September 16, 2021Performance