Cloudflare Network Services

Magic WAN is a cloud network solution from Cloudflare that provides stable and secure connectivity between offices, branches, stores, and data centers. Using connectivity cloud technology, companies gain centralized network management, traffic optimization, and reduced infrastructure costs.

 

Flexibility and Centralized Management

Magic WAN allows centralized management of all network connections through a single interface. Automated network configuration simplifies administration, speeds up the connection of new nodes, and ensures efficient traffic control. 

This solution enables organizations to quickly adapt their network to changes in business processes, scale resources according to needs, and avoid complex and costly implementations. 

Integrated Security Without Additional Hardware

Magic WAN offers deeply integrated cloud-based security tools. Key protection components: 

• Protection against DDoS attacks; 

• Integrated firewall; 

• Security Service Edge (SSE); 

• Zero Trust for restricting access based on least privilege principle. 

These features allow for a reliable level of corporate network protection without the need for additional physical hardware or complex configurations. 

Reducing Costs on Network Infrastructure

Moving network functions to the cloud helps reduce costs for maintaining physical devices and expensive technologies like MPLS or SD-WAN. 

Main Financial Benefits:

• Cost reduction on specialized network equipment 

• Discontinue expensive private communication channels 

• Optimize internet traffic usage 

This allows companies to allocate more resources to business development instead of maintaining complex network infrastructure. 

Cloudflare Magic Firewall is a Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) designed to protect local networks (LAN) and large-scale corporate networks (WAN). With this solution, your traffic is filtered at layers 3 and 4 without the need for hardware. Traffic processing is performed on the global Cloudflare network, which includes data centers in over 335 cities worldwide. 

Instead of relying on traditional hardware firewalls, Magic Firewall allows companies to scale protection without the limitations of physical devices, eliminating bottlenecks and ensuring continuous network performance. 

Magic Firewall allows you to establish unified security policies for the entire corporate WAN network. This includes the headquarters, remote branches, and virtual private clouds (VPC).

No hardware limitations

This is a fully cloud-based solution that eliminates the need for physical devices and their upgrades. Your network will scale according to business needs without additional hardware costs.

Instant deployment of security policies

Detailed filtering rules are deployed across Cloudflare’s global network in seconds. Administration is managed through a single, user-friendly dashboard, simplifying management and control.

Traffic filtering in Cloudflare’s global network

Magic Firewall checks traffic at levels 3 and 4 at any point in the corporate network, regardless of the company offices’ locations.

Integration with Cloudflare One

Magic Firewall is part of Cloudflare One—a comprehensive solution for cloud WAN security. It allows for the replacement of outdated physical devices and centralization of network security without performance loss.

Elimination of traditional hardware firewalls

No longer necessary to install and maintain local security devices. Magic Firewall provides protection directly from the cloud.

Protection from L3 DDoS attacks

Magic Firewall includes built-in Magic Transit capabilities to neutralize massive L3 DDoS attacks that can disable your network infrastructure.

If your company seeks reliable cloud security, Magic Firewall will be a key component of a secure and productive network infrastructure.

Cloudflare Network Interconnect (CNI) is a solution that allows organizations to directly connect their on-premises and cloud networks to the Cloudflare global network. It provides higher performance, security, and efficiency, reducing reliance on intermediate providers. 

Ways to Connect to Cloudflare 

Connections can be implemented in two ways: 

• Physical connection – direct connection to the Cloudflare network through dedicated ports in data centers. 

• Virtual connection – using a partner network that spans over 13,000 connection points worldwide. 

Cloudflare Network Interconnect is available in more than 335 cities across 125 countries, providing the opportunity to choose the optimal connection option. 

By eliminating intermediaries between your network and Cloudflare, performance and connection stability are improved. You get predictable data transfer speeds without the impact of delays or overload from external providers. 

Enhanced Security 

Each inter-network connection is assigned to an individual client, ensuring high privacy and traffic isolation. This helps protect corporate data from interception and potential threats. 

Cost Reduction 

Connecting to Cloudflare Network Interconnect helps reduce costs for: 

• Transit provider services. 

• Outbound traffic, especially when handling non-cached content. 

Cloudflare Network Interconnect allows customers to directly connect their data centers to the Cloudflare network. This ensures seamless access to all Cloudflare services, such as: 

• Magic Transit – DDoS attack protection. 

• Zero Trust – ensuring user and device security. 

• Workers – creating serverless applications without infrastructure attachment. 

Enhanced capabilities for ZTNA (Zero Trust Network Access) 

Cloudflare Network Interconnect facilitates the replacement of outdated VPN solutions with Cloudflare Zero Trust. This allows secure connections between Cloudflare and your corporate applications, hosted in the cloud or on-premises data centers. 

Attack surface reduction 

Private connection with Cloudflare helps avoid risks associated with the public Internet. This enhances the security of corporate applications and minimizes potential vulnerabilities. 

Network congestion can cause slow web application loading, negatively affecting performance and user experience. Argo Smart Routing dynamically determines optimal traffic routes in real time, helping to avoid congested network areas. As a result, web application performance improves on average by 30%, making them faster and more reliable. 

The Cloudflare network processes an average of 71 million HTTP requests per second, providing deep insights into Internet traffic flow.

Argo Smart Routing analyzes this information and determines the most efficient routes in real-time. This enables dynamic redirection of client web traffic through the fastest and most reliable network paths, avoiding congestion and overloads.

Key Paths of Argo Smart Routing

Enhancing web application performance

Smart routing ensures quick content delivery through optimized routes, reducing latency and improving the user experience.

Reducing load on the origin server

The solution supports multi-tier caching, which increases cache hits and reduces the need for origin server requests. This helps lower infrastructure costs and enhances resource efficiency.