TURN and anycast: making peer connections work globally

This post announces the general availability of Cloudflare Calls TURN service, which leverages Cloudflare's anycast network to provide low-latency, globally distributed TURN servers for real-time communication applications. It details how TURN addresses connectivity and privacy challenges posed by NATs and ICE, and explains Cloudflare's specific implementation using anycast for client-server connections and internal backbone forwarding for relayed addresses to overcome stateful protocol challenges.