- Anycast: One IP announced from many locations; clients reach the nearest.
- BGP: Border Gateway Protocol; routes between networks on the Internet.
- CDN: Content Delivery Network; caches and serves content near users.
- DNS: Domain Name System; maps names to IP addresses.
- HSTS: HTTP Strict Transport Security; enforces HTTPS.
- KV: Cloudflare Workers KV: global key-value storage.
- MTU: Maximum Transmission Unit; largest frame size on a link.
- SNI: Server Name Indication; client specifies hostname during TLS.
- TLS: Transport Layer Security; secures connections (HTTPS).
- WAF: Web Application Firewall.
- Workers: Cloudflare’s edge compute platform.
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