"Removing 500 miles from the latency equation is a good thing. 500 miles equates to around 12 milliseconds of round-trip latency."

Cloudflare is joining the Asteroid-built IXP, managed by our partners McAllen DC, in McAllen, Texas, USA. Martin Levy has written a great blog post about it. He explains why McAllen is the perfect location for an IXP, allowing Cloudflare and others to peer with Mexican networks.

Check out the full blog post on the Cloudflare website.
Read the Asteroid news story about our McAllen partnership here.