Announcing Argo for Spectrum
Nov 23, 2021Achiel van der Mandele
Summary
This post announces the general availability of Argo for Spectrum, extending Cloudflare's Argo Smart Routing capabilities beyond HTTP to any TCP-based application. It highlights how Argo for Spectrum reduces latency, packet loss, and improves connectivity for protocols like SFTP, RDP, and gaming, demonstrating significant performance improvements through benchmarks and explaining the underlying 'bandwidth delay product' concept. This marks a significant expansion of Cloudflare's performance optimization services to non-HTTP traffic.
More from the Load Balancing UI and Feature Enhancements trail
- Load Balancing Monitor Groups: Multi-Service Health Checks for Resilient Applications
- Your IPs, your rules- enabling more efficient address space usage
- Simplify cloud routing and object storage configurations with Cloud Connector
- Eliminating hardware with Load Balancing and Cloudflare One
- Extending Private Network Load Balancing load balancing to Layer 4 with Spectrum