Company
Date Published
June 20, 2023
Author
Achiel van der Mandele, Chris Draper
Word count
1183
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Cloudflare has announced the introduction of traffic acceleration to customer's UDP traffic, which can improve latency for UDP-based applications like video games, voice calls, and video meetings by up to 17%. The company is extending its Argo Smart Routing technology used in HTTP and TCP traffic to UDP. This will help reduce latency, packet loss, and jitter in gaming, live audio/video applications, and real-time communications. In testing from Tokyo to Iowa, round-trip-time was reduced by up to 17.3% on average with the feature enabled.