Why does Cloudflare Tunnel use HTTP/QUIC instead of WireGuard?

DNS & Network
#1

According to this article:

The initial version of cloudflared uses HTTP/2 frames, with a QUIC implementation being added a few months ago.

I’m curious why Cloudflare uses transport layer tunneling as opposed to the more performant WireGuard? Especially considering WARP uses WireGuard.

Thanks!
//anders

#2

Cloudflare tunnel predates Warp by several years. It also maintains redundant connections per data center to 2 data centers and only routes traffic initiated from edge to origin.

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#3

I’m not as familiar with WireGuard. Can you not have redundant connections?

#4

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