DE-CIX Frankfurt hits 10 Tbps peak traffic ⋆

DE-CIX Frankfurt hits 10 Tbps peak traffic

German internet exchange operator De-Cix said it has reached a peak traffic of 10 Tbps at its facility in Frankfurt.

De-Cix said it has not been able to identify the cause of the peak, adding that it could have been a combination of the Champions League, the US elections, software upgrades, and the start of Germany’s second lockdown.

“We cannot say for sure what caused the peak (might be a combination of the Champions League, the US election, software upgrades, lockdown in Germany), but the traffic developments this year have been extraordinary due to the unpreceded situation we are living in. When we hit 8.3 Tbps in February, we predicted that we would reach 9 Tbps towards the end of the year. Instead, we exceeded that mark a mere two weeks later. And now we are at 10 Tbps – and what is usually the peak season in winter when people spend more time indoors is just around the corner.” company announce.

De-Cix said in September that traffic had increased at its sites in Europe. At its main site in Frankfurt, traffic reached a new all-time high of 9. 2 Tbps at the end of September, up from 9. 1 Tbps earlier. in Dusseldorf, traffic is more than 20% in knowledge performance, and in Munich, traffic more than doubled at 73 Gbps and is now higher than the start of pandemic blockades in March.

The company also recorded spikes in Hamburg this summer, probably due to football matches. The highest peak was 156 Gbps, a jump of more than 70% since the previous record.

De-Cix also recorded a 120% increase in the number of video on demand users on its Madrid site, the largest Internet exchange in southern Europe, where peak traffic is around 520 Gbps.

In August, the Marseille site reached a new historical traffic peak of 104 Gbps, the first time it crossed the threshold of one hundred Gb/s at the plant, where more than one hundred ASNs are connected. more than 50 Gbps.

DE-CIX provides premium network interconnection services and operates several carrier and data center-neutral Internet Exchanges (IX, or Internet Exchange Point, IXP) in Europe, the Middle East, North America, Asia, and India.