Cloudflare Network Interconnect via Megaport: The Private Path into the Cloudflare Network
Traffic to Cloudflare does not have to travel over the public internet. Cloudflare Network Interconnect connects your network privately to the Cloudflare backbone; KAEMI orders, builds, and manages the connection via Megaport as a managed service. What CNI can do, how it works, and what it delivers for Magic Transit, CDN, and Zero Trust.
If you use Cloudflare for DDoS protection, CDN, or Zero Trust access, your traffic usually gets there over the public internet. Most of the time, that works fine. But the more sensitive the data and the more critical the application, the more clearly the limits show: additional attack surface, fluctuating latency, and bandwidth costs that are hard to predict.
That is exactly what Cloudflare Network Interconnect (CNI) is for: a private, direct connection between your network and the Cloudflare backbone. Megaport is a CNI partner and provides this connection over its software-defined network. KAEMI is a partner of both Cloudflare and Megaport: we plan, order, and manage these connections for our customers as part of our portfolio around Cloud Connectivity & SDN .
What Cloudflare Network Interconnect is
CNI consists of physical network connections at Cloudflare locations around the world. Instead of taking the detour over the internet, your network couples in directly: in data centers where Cloudflare is present, Megaport maintains permanent fiber connections to the Cloudflare routers. These handoff points are reachable from hundreds of Megaport-enabled data centers. So you do not have to sit in the same building as Cloudflare: the virtual connection is carried across the redundant Megaport network to the Cloudflare location of your choice.
How the connection works
The process is deliberately kept simple, and as a managed security service provider we handle it completely for you. KAEMI orders a 1 or 10 Gbit/s port in the Megaport portal and provisions a Virtual Cross Connection (VXC) on it to the appropriate Cloudflare location. VXCs come with guaranteed bandwidths from 1 Mbit/s to 1 Gbit/s; higher rates are coordinated with the Cloudflare account team. A VLAN is assigned on the connection, we set up routing to Cloudflare via BGP, and we register the service key pre-assigned by Cloudflare directly in the process. You need neither your own Megaport account nor in-house BGP expertise.
Two characteristics make the model pleasant in day-to-day use: once the port is in place, a new VXC is provisioned in under a minute, according to Megaport. And we adjust the bandwidth to your needs at any time without interrupting the connection. Because intermediate sizes can be booked as well, you do not pay for capacity that sits idle.
How much effort is this for you?
Surprisingly little, and that is precisely the point. A private Cloudflare connection sounds like a project: requesting circuits, procuring hardware, coordinating appointments with the carrier. With CNI via Megaport, that goes away because the physical foundation is already in place: the fiber connections between Megaport and the Cloudflare routers are built. If your infrastructure sits in a Megaport-enabled data center, all that is missing is the cross-connect into the Megaport network; from there on, everything is software. And if not, we bring the connection in through a suitable access point.
From your perspective, the rollout thus boils down to a conversation: which sites, which Cloudflare services, how much bandwidth, which level of redundancy. KAEMI takes care of the rest. There is no new portal for your team, no BGP configuration on your side, and no hardware to order. If your needs change, a short message to us is enough; we adjust the bandwidth in the running service.
What concretely gets better
- Magic Transit: Cloudflare's network-layer DDoS protection benefits twice. On the way to scrubbing, jitter drops and throughput rises, and clean traffic returns over the private connection instead of the open internet.
- CDN: Cache fill between your origin and Cloudflare gets faster and cheaper because it uses private paths instead of transit routes.
- Zero Trust access: Existing MPLS networks can be brought directly up to Cloudflare. That eases the move from the perimeter world to a SASE/SSE architecture , because the old and new worlds run side by side during the migration.
- Fundamentally: A private path means predictable performance, a smaller attack surface, and predictable costs.
Design for redundancy from the start
A single VXC is built quickly; for critical workloads, Megaport recommends redundant patterns: two VXCs to two different Cloudflare regions or availability zones, optionally with two ports in two different Megaport data centers. That way the connection survives even the failure of an entire site. Which level makes sense depends on how critical the application is; we advise on this based on your requirements and build the connection accordingly.
Where CNI via Megaport is available
Cloudflare Network Interconnect is available via Megaport at more than 30 locations across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. In Germany, handoff points are available in Berlin, Frankfurt, and Munich; across Europe also in Amsterdam, London, Paris, and Zurich, among others. The full list is on the Megaport overview page .
Cloudflare, Megaport, and KAEMI
For us, the two belong together: Cloudflare delivers the security and performance platform, Megaport the private path to it. KAEMI delivers both from a single source, as a managed service with one point of contact instead of three parties:
- Consulting and design: We capture requirements and sites, select the right Cloudflare locations, and define bandwidths and the redundancy level.
- Ordering and contracts: We order ports, VXCs, and Cloudflare services for you through our partnerships; you have one contract partner and one invoice.
- Setup: VLAN, BGP sessions, service key, failover tests: we build the connection and hand it over only once it runs cleanly.
- Managed service: Around-the-clock monitoring, bandwidth adjustments in the running service, and a team that knows the entire chain when something goes wrong, from the router to the Cloudflare configuration.
- Integration: The connection is meshed with your existing network architecture, from SD-WAN to the SASE/SSE environment.
For an overview of the Cloudflare products at KAEMI, see our Cloudflare page .
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