Making peering easy with the new Cloudflare Peering Portal

On October 19, 2022, David Tuber announced updates to the Cloudflare Peering Portal. The portal allows network operators to identify the best places for interconnection with Cloudflare and has been made even easier by removing Cloudflare-specific logins and allowing users to request sessions directly in the portal. Peering is important as it distributes traffic across multiple networks, reduces bandwidth prices, and improves performance by reducing network hops. The updated portal now supports PeeringDB login, making it simpler for users to initiate peering sessions with Cloudflare at Internet Exchanges.