Cloudflare Peering Portal offers several features including lowering costs. Read on to find out more. 

At Bobcares, we offer solutions for every query, big and small, as a part of our Server Management Services.

Let’s look at how our Support Team helped our customers learn more about Cloudflare Peering Portal.

An Introduction to Cloudflare Peering Portal

Cloudflare is responsible for accelerating and securing internet applications via a network of data centers spread across the globe. Furthermore, ISPs and hosting providers peer with Cloudflare by sending traffic to Cloudflare’s network directly rather than using a third party. In fact, this helps avoid congestion between transit providers as well as avoid costs to ship traffic.

The Cloudflare Peering Portal displays the volume between our network and Cloudflare’s. Additionally, it also gives us information about where our data is going. In fact, we can manage our traffic better by dedicating the Cloudflare traffic to a specific peering link and making better plans for the rest.

Benefits Offered by Cloudflare Peering Portal

Before we dive into the many advantages offered by Cloudflare peering, let’s take a look at some of the problems it helps solve:

• Internet users prefer to use fast-loading websites.
• Bandwidth is expensive.
• Network operators have access to limited resources.

For instance, let’s take a look at what happens when we request a site on Cloudflare from home:

• First, the domain converts to a Cloudflare IP.
• Then, our browser sends an HTTP request to this Cloudflare IP.
• Next, our ISP routers will consult the routing table in order to route packets to the transit provider which adds to the overall cost.
• The packets take multiple hops to reach the closest Cloudflare POP which is a time-consuming process.
• Furthermore, these packets take up the ISP’s capacity, thereby taking it away from competing packets.

Fortunately, Cloudflare peering portal addresses these problems by interconnecting networks directly. In fact, it results in fewer hops, faster loading websites, lower transit provider costs, and so on. The different types of peering include:

• Private Network Interconnect (PNI)
• Internet Exchange Point (IxP)
• Hosting a Node

At the end of the day, Cloudflare the peering portal allows us to view:

• Time Series Traffic Statistics
• Peering Session Statistics
• Prefix Data
• POP Relative Traffic Weighting

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Conclusion

At the end of the day, we learned how Cloudflare Peering Portal helps us manage our traffic efficiently via a network of data centers spread across the globe.  In a nutshell, our skilled Support Engineers at Bobcares introduced us to Cloudflare Peering Portal and its many benefits.