Five new Cloudflare data centers across the United States
When Cloudflare launched, three of the original five cities in our network - Chicago, Ashburn and San Jose - were located in the United States. Since then, we have grown the breadth of the global network considerably to span 66 countries, and even added expanded the US footprint to twenty five locations. Even as a highly international business, the United States continues to be home to a number of our customers and the majority of Cloudflare employees.
Today, we expand our network in the United States even further by adding five new locations: Houston (Texas), Indianapolis (Indiana), Montgomery (Alabama), Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) and Sacramento (California) as our 129th, 130th, 131st, 132nd and 133rd data centers respectively. They represent states that collectively span nearly 100 million people. In North America alone, the Cloudflare network now spans 37 cities, including thirty in the US.
In each of these new locations, we connect with at least one major local Internet service provider and also openly peer using at least one major Internet exchange. We are participants at CyrusOne IX Houston, Midwest IX Indianapolis, Montgomery IX, Pittsburgh IX, and the upcoming Sacramento IX.
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Baghdad, Iraq: Cloudflare’s 128th Data Center
Cloudflare's newest data center is located in Baghdad, Iraq, in the region often known as the cradle of civilization. This expands our growing Middle East presence, while serving as our 45th data center in Asia, and 128th data center globally.
Even while accelerating over 7 million Internet properties, this deployment helps our effort to be closer to every Internet user. Previous, ISPs such as Earthlink were served from our Frankfurt data center. Nearly 40 million people live in Iraq.
Rich Cuisine
One of the world's largest producers of the sweet date palm, Iraq's cuisine dates back over 10,000 years and includes favorites such as,
- Kleicha: Date-filled cookies flavored with cardamom, saffron and rose water
- Mezza: a selection of appetizers to begin the meal
- Iraqi Dolma: stuffed vegetables with a tangy sauce
- Iraqi Biryani: cooked rice with spices, beans, grilled nuts and meat / vegetables
- Masgouf: whole baked fish marinated in oil, salt, pepper, turmeric and tamarind
New data centers
Baghdad is the first of eight deployments joining the Cloudflare global network just this week. Stay tuned!
The Cloudflare Global Anycast Network
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Tune Into Our Introduction to Networking Technologies March 2018 Live Session
Tomorrow, March 15th, we will air our March 2018 Networking Technologies Live Session with Keith Bogart. This course is designed for those with absolutely no knowledge of computer networks, but who would like to learn more and possibly head down a career path working on computer networks.
- When:
- March 15, 2018 10 am PST/ 1 pm EST
- Instructor Info:
- This Course is taught by Keith Bogart, CCIE #4923. Keith started his networking career as customer service representative at Cisco Systems in 1996. His desire to learn more soon led him to a position as a Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) engineer on the “Dial-Access” team, and within six months he had obtained his Dial-ISP CCIE. He later became a network consulting engineer and obtained his CCNA certification while teaching the technologies to Cisco employees during his lunch breaks. Keith was the first instructor on Cisco’s TAC Training team, where he taught a wide range of internetworking topics and later developed and taught other courses such as routing protocols, LAN switching, MPLS, 802.1x, and CCNA. After almost 17 years with Cisco, Keith joined a small startup and focused on 802.11 Wi-Fi technologies, during which time he obtained his Continue reading
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History Of Networking – Tony Li – SSE and Hardware Switching
From processors, to FPGAs, to ASICs, and back again, Tony Li joins Network Collective’s History of Networking to talk through the impact that the Cisco SSE and hardware switching has had on the networking industry.
Tony Li
Guest
Russ White
Host
Donald Sharp
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Jordan Martin
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Outro Music:
Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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