Cloudflare and Deutsche Telekom have announced a strategic partnership to strengthen the security and resilience of digital infrastructure for enterprises across Europe. The agreement will combine Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud and security solutions with Deutsche Telekom’s telecommunications infrastructure and enterprise services.
As part of the partnership, Deutsche Telekom will expand its enterprise portfolio with Cloudflare’s security and connectivity solutions. The companies will also directly interconnect their networks, giving European organizations access to Cloudflare’s global cloud platform together with Deutsche Telekom’s infrastructure, services and enterprise customer reach.
The collaboration is intended to provide a stronger foundation for digital infrastructure by improving network performance, reliability and security for enterprise customers across the region.
Cloudflare and Deutsche Telekom Interconnect Networks
The technical collaboration will directly connect the Deutsche Telekom and Cloudflare networks. The companies said this is intended to support end-to-end network quality and greater resilience while enabling a broader range of secure digital services.
The partnership combines several capabilities:
- Deutsche Telekom provides its European telecommunications infrastructure and established enterprise customer relationships.
- T-Systems contributes consulting, integration and managed services expertise.
- Cloudflare provides its connectivity cloud and network and security solutions.
- Deutsche Telekom will add Cloudflare security solutions to its enterprise portfolio for applications, networks, data and AI workloads.
The companies also plan to train and certify Deutsche Telekom professionals on the Cloudflare platform. This is intended to support enterprise customers through consulting and implementation as well as ongoing operations and managed security services.
Stephanie Cohen, Chief Strategy Officer of Cloudflare, said,“Today we are aligning two platforms that are deeply important to how businesses operate and grow in Europe,” said Stephanie Cohen, Chief Strategy Officer of Cloudflare. “By combining Cloudflare’s global connectivity and security platform with Deutsche Telekom’s infrastructure expertise and customer reach, we are helping organizations secure their networks, strengthen their resilience, and accelerate transformations at a global scale. Through this partnership, we’re supplying businesses with a highly innovative foundation for the next generation of the Internet.”
Partnership Targets Secure European Digital Infrastructure
The companies said the partnership will address rising requirements for security, performance and resilience across increasingly distributed, cloud-based and AI-powered IT environments. By directly interconnecting their networks, Cloudflare and Deutsche Telekom aim to strengthen digital infrastructure supporting enterprise connectivity and security.
Kerstin Baumgart, Director Wholesale and Member of the Board of Management of Telekom Deutschland, said,“With Cloudflare, we are engaging into a strategic partnership that lays the foundation for reliable and high-performance networks across Europe. What unites us is a clear ambition: to help our customers across Europe advance their digital infrastructure and manage their services with a very high degree of security and resilience”, said Kerstin Baumgart, Director Wholesale and Member of the Board of Management of Telekom Deutschland. “By connecting Cloudflare’s platform directly with our networks and combining our respective technological capabilities, our customers will benefit from the synergies of two highly complementary infrastructures.”
Beyond the portfolio and channel arrangement, Cloudflare and Deutsche Telekom intend to collaborate on approaches addressing European requirements for security and digital sovereignty. Their work is also expected to cover protection of critical data and infrastructure and the use of scalable advanced post-quantum cryptography.
The partnership will extend Cloudflare’s reach among European enterprises while adding new security and connectivity capabilities to Deutsche Telekom’s enterprise offering. The companies said the technical and commercial collaboration will support more secure and resilient digital infrastructure across Europe.