Network Address Translation (NAT) is one of the most common and versatile network functions, used by everything from your home router to the largest ISPs. Today, we’re delighted to introduce a new approach to NAT that solves the problems of traditional hardware and virtual solutions. By Annika Garbers.
The article then paint the picture of:
- What does NAT do?
- Allowing traffic from private subnets to connect to the Internet
- Enabling communication between private subnets with overlapping IP space
- Conserving IP address space
- Challenges with existing NAT solutions
- Magic NAT: everywhere, unbounded, cross-platform, and predictably priced
- Anycast: Magic NAT is everywhere, automatically
Cloudflare’s global capacity is at 141 Tbps and counting, and automated traffic management systems like Unimog allow us to take full advantage of that capacity to serve high volumes of traffic smoothly. Magic NAT, like our other network services, is priced based on the 95th percentile of clean bandwidth for your network: no installation, maintenance, or upgrades, and no surprise charges for data transfer spikes. Magic NAT is currently in beta, translating network addresses globally for a variety of workloads, large and small. Good read!
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