~ Amsterdam Internet Exchange index sets record ~
Amsterdam, September 14th, 2010 - 21:18 The index of the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX), one of the largest Internet exchanges worldwide, has broken the data transfer speed record of 1 Terabit per second.
All members are able to exchange Internet data via the AMS-IX platform, this is known in the industry as peering. All large Dutch and a big number of foreign Internet service providers are connected to this platform and have their own port at the AMS-IX infrastructure. Although the growth rate of the Internet is slowing down, the data traffic volume is still increasing. For the first time in its history, at 21.18 on the 14th of September 2010, the exchange reached a transfer peak of 1 Terabit per second.
The increase in data traffic is the result of growing interest from Internet service providers from countries in Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia to connect locally to the Amsterdam Internet Exchange. It is also thanks to the heavily increased adoption of smart phones and PDA’s with Internet connection, not to mention channels that enable video, music and movie streaming.
“Breaking the barrier of 1 Terabit data traffic per second is a milestone in the history of the exchange”, says Job Witteman, CEO, Amsterdam Internet Exchange. “We constantly challenge ourselves to increase the added value of the Exchange for our members. Amongst other ways, we try to reach this by attracting diverse and high value parties. If their participation in the exchange snowballs it interests more parties, which results in increased data traffic via our platform. This is how we were able to break the Terabit per second. We are looking forward to moving this forward and hitting the Petabit per second (1000 Tbps) transfer.”