Spectrum

Secure and accelerate your TCP and UDP applications

Cloudflare Spectrum integrates with Argo Smart Routing and Load Balancing to provide fast, reliable performance and automatic failover for your custom applications. This ensures a fast and consistent end-user experience. With Spectrum, you can shield your applications from complex, large-scale attacks.

Unmetered DDoS Protection

Block volumetric DDoS attacks with a network mitigation capacity of hundreds of Tbps, mitigating even the largest DDoS attacks before they reach your server. This helps ensure that your applications remain available and secure. Block volumetric DDoS attacks with a network mitigation capacity of hundreds of Tbps, mitigating even the largest DDoS attacks before they reach your server. This ensures that your applications remain available and secure.

Traffic Acceleration

Spectrum integrates with Argo Smart Routing to send TCP traffic faster than the 'best-effort' Internet. This results in a fast and consistent end-user experience. Additionally, with Load Balancing, all active TCP connections and UDP traffic automatically failover to a healthy server, helping increase uptime.

Global Network

Spectrum is built on a network of 330 locations worldwide. This global coverage enables Spectrum to shield your applications from complex, large-scale attacks while delivering a fast, consistent, and 'real-time' end-user experience.

DDoS Protection and Traffic Acceleration with Spectrum

Shield your TCP and UDP applications from complex attacks and deliver a fast, consistent end-user experience with Spectrum's global network.

Spectrum Use Cases

Ensure uptime, control traffic, and analyze web traffic in real-time for your custom TCP and UDP applications with Spectrum.

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Reduce latency for custom applications

Spectrum helps provide fast, reliable performance for apps that depend on low latency — from online games to financial services. With Argo Smart Routing, TCP traffic is sent faster than the ‘best-effort’ Internet, ensuring a fast and consistent end-user experience. This results in increased user engagement and satisfaction.

DDoS Attack Protection

Spectrum shields your applications from complex, large-scale attacks with unmetered DDoS protection. Built on a network of 330 locations worldwide, it mitigates even the largest DDoS attacks — before they reach your server. This ensures that your applications remain available and secure.

Granular IP Firewall Control

Allow or deny individual IPs or IP ranges to restrict which traffic gets sent to your application servers. Spectrum's built-in, software-defined IP firewall makes it easy to control the flow of traffic without hardware or costly maintenance. This results in increased security and control over your application's traffic.

Automatic Failover and Uptime

With Load Balancing, all active TCP connections and UDP traffic automatically failover to a healthy server, helping increase the uptime of your services. As a result, you can minimize downtime and ensure high availability.

ESL

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Cloudflare Spectrum helped us really boost the performance and resiliency of our custom TCP protocols. "

Ben Burns CIO

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