Marhaba Beirut! Cloudflare’s 121st location - مرحبا بيروت! موقع “كلاودفلار” ال ١٢١

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This post details the deployment of a new Cloudflare data center in Beirut, Lebanon. It explains the technical rationale for this deployment, focusing on reducing round-trip latency by approximately 50 milliseconds for users in Lebanon by connecting directly to Ogero, the sole ISP, and the Beirut Internet Exchange (IX). It also discusses the current internet infrastructure challenges in Lebanon, such as low end-user speeds and reliance on a single ISP, and the potential impact of future fiber optic deployments.