17% traffic increase on the AMS-IX platform due to Corona/ COVID-19 crisis

In February, the daily amount of traffic exchanged on the platform was between 48 to 50 Petabyte. However, after the 11th of March – the day that the World Health Organization declared the COVID outbreak a pandemic – we can see a steep rise in the amount of traffic exchanged over the AMS-IX Amsterdam platform. Currently, the traffic volume accounts for 56 to 58 Petabyte on a daily basis, an increase of 17% compared to the previous month. This is almost surely the effect of the COVID-19 quarantine measures enforced by the national governments all over the world.

The total capacity of the AMS-IX platform is 34,6 Terabit per second (Tbps). Since the start of the COVID-19 crisis, there are also a lot of new traffic peaks on the AMS-IX platform in Amsterdam. We just hit the 7,9 Tbps, a new record for the third time in two weeks. It looks like it’s a matter of time till we see the 8 Tbps peak being reached.