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New 10 Tbit/s peak traffic record for AMS-IX

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08 April 2021

AMS-IX CEO Peter van Burgel says:

“The pandemic has resulted in Internet growth that makes us go back to the end of the 90s. Last year Internet volume exchanged over AMS-IX grew over 35% and we see the same pattern for this year. We live in uncertain times, but you can be sure that Internet traffic keeps on growing.”

AMS-IX is well capable of handling the traffic growth and is even able to handle traffic volume if it was the double over night. Moreover, AMS-IX invested in the capacity of the platform and added more 100G-ports. The platform currently has a port-capacity that enables 42 Terabit per second. Over 885 networks are connected to the Amsterdam interconnection hub, 75% of them are of European origin.

AMS-IX is well capable of handling the traffic growth and is even able to handle traffic volume if it was the double over night. Moreover, AMS-IX invested in the capacity of the platform and added more 100G-ports. The platform currently has a port-capacity that enables 42 Terabit per second. Over 885 networks are connected to the Amsterdam interconnection hub, 75% of them are of European origin.

10 Terabit per second accounts for astronomical amounts of data traffic. It corresponds to:

  • Simultaneous streaming of 2,000,000 HD (1080p) video’s
  • Simultaneous streaming 400,000 4k video’s
  • The transmission of a little less than 245 million of typed A4 pages (in one second)
  • The transmission of more than 215.000 volumes of “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare” (in one second)
  • The simultaneous streaming of 250 billion typists who can type 300 characters (5 B) a minute

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