Cloudflare, Inc.

Oliver Yu

Matthew Browning Prince

Christopher Philip Branch

Rustam Xing Lalkaka

Andrew Taylor Plunk

Mohd Irtefa

Naga Sunil Tripirineni

Nick Wondra

Vlad Krasnov

Dane Orion Knecht

John Graham-Cumming

Igor Postelnik

Dani Grant

Nitin Rao

A request is received from a client device over a Virtual Private Network (VPN) tunnel. The request is received at a first one of a plurality of edge servers of a distributed cloud computing network. A destination of the request is determined and an optimized route for transmitting the request toward an origin server is determined. The optimized route is based at least in part on probe data between edge servers of the distributed cloud computing network. The request is transmitted to a next hop as defined by the optimized route.

Virtual private network (VPN) whose traffic is intelligently routed

A server in a content delivery network (CDN) receives a request for a web page of a domain handled by an origin server. The server retrieves the web page and the web page references a video. The server retrieves a file that indicates a list of locations of the domain in which segments of the video are located. The server fetches at least an initial portion of the segments. The server receives a request for the video. The server transmits to the requester at least the initial portion of the segments. The server receives a subsequent request of a different portion of the segments. The server transmits a response to the requester that instructs the requester to transmit the request for the different portion of segments to a second server in the CDN.

Delivering video in a content delivery network

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Oliver Yu