“Nobody’s ever heard of Nefeli, but this is fantastic,” said Steve Mullaney, the former CEO (now retired) of MCN pioneer Aviatrix, of Cloudflare’s purchase. “When a $33 billion market cap company jumps in, it’s great for the market.”

Chris McHenry, VP of product management with Aviatrix, also chimed in. He sent us this in an email that said, “… this is also another example of the growing convergence of networking and network security that’s being driven by enterprise requirements as they migrate to and expand in cloud(s).