Networking also: Point of Presence

PoP

A CDN edge location.

In plain terms

Cloudflare has 300+. Closest to the user wins; anycast routing handles the picking.

Origin

CDN PoP counts started at single digits with Akamai in 1998. Cloudflare passed 300 in 2023. Edge compute (Workers, Lambda@Edge) put a JavaScript runtime in each one.

Where it shows up in production

Cloudflare ~310 PoPs in 120+ countries. Targets <50ms latency to 95% of the internet population.
AWS CloudFront ~450 edge locations including the lower-tier regional caches.

On Semicolony

Guide cdn

Sources & further reading

Docs Cloudflare — Network map

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