Monday, November 13, 2006

Amsterdam Internet Exchange Surpasses 200 G/bps

Yearly graph of traffic growth at the Amsterdam Internet Exchange.
Image source: AMS-IX.net


Todd Underwood writes on the Renesys Blog:

Today, for the first time, the Amsterdam Internet Exchange surpassed 200 Gigabits per second across its switch fabric. AMS-IX was already the biggest public Internet exchange on the planet, but this is impressive growth.

While AMS-IX hits 200 Gb/s on a single Internet Exchange in a single city, Tier 1 Research pointed out a few weeks ago that it was a big deal that Equinix recently hit an aggregate of 100Gb/s across all of their exchanges—including Ashburn, San Jose, Chicago, Dallas, Singapore and so on. So why is AMS-IX so much bigger than everyone else?

More here.

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