McAllen, Texas: Cloudflare opens 119th Data Center just north of the Mexico border

This post details the launch of Cloudflare's 119th data center in McAllen, Texas, strategically located near the US-Mexico border. The primary technical driver for this deployment is to reduce latency for traffic destined for Mexico by approximately 12 milliseconds, by providing a local interconnect point for Mexican ISPs and telcos. The post also highlights the establishment of a new Internet Exchange (IX) in McAllen, MEX-IX, and Cloudflare's intention to enable peering on this IX to further improve interconnection with Mexican carriers.