Magic Transit is a network-layer protection service that leverages Cloudflare's extensive global network to safeguard organizations against DDoS attacks and other network-level threats. It provides robust security without the need for traditional hardware appliances or traffic backhauling to scrubbing centers, offering improved performance and scalability.

Key Features

Global DDoS Mitigation Utilizes Cloudflare's vast network capacity to absorb and filter attacks of any size

• 321 Tbps network capacity, 23x greater than the largest recorded DDoS attacks
• Malicious traffic identified and blocked within 3 seconds at the nearest data center

BGP-based Traffic Ingestion Efficiently routes inbound traffic through Cloudflare's infrastructure

• Uses Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) route announcements
• Ingests traffic at the closest Cloudflare data center

Clean Traffic Routing Rapidly routes filtered traffic back to the customer network

• Supports various handoff methods including GRE tunnels and private network interconnects (PNI)
• Ensures minimal latency for legitimate traffic

Benefits

Enhanced Security Provides comprehensive protection against network-level threats

• Mitigates DDoS attacks of any size and type
• Works in conjunction with Spectrum (Layer 4) and Cloudflare DDoS (Layer 7) for multi-layered defense

Improved Performance Eliminates the need for traditional security bottlenecks

• No traffic backhauling to scrubbing centers
• Reduces latency by leveraging Cloudflare's global network

Cost-Effective Solution Replaces expensive hardware with a cloud-based service model

• Increases operational agility
• Delivers network functions as a service with usage-based billing