Amsterdam, May 26, 2009 – AMS-IX, one of the world’s largest Internet
exchanges, has announced 30 per cent growth in net revenue in 2008, along
with the addition of almost 50 new members.
2009 will mark the implementation of a new architecture for AMS-IX that will
result in an even more flexible and increasingly stable platform that will
sustain its impressive growth. The exchange puts emphasis on continuity and
growth, with specific work to attract quality networks from around the world
and upcoming markets like Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and
Asia Pacific. Expansion of the available datacentre locations the exchange
uses will accommodate the ongoing growth of the platform and the increasing
flow of Internet traffic. Last week AMS-IX announced that it will place a new
switch at the latest InterXion site, AMS5 at Schiphol-Rijk.
The forecast for total traffic growth in 2009 is estimated to be an average of
800 Gbps and peak in the 1 Tbps range. Due to the fact that IPv4 addresses
are running out, IPv6 traffic is expected to keep growing considerably, though
perhaps not as steep as the 1000% that was reported over 2008. Since the
first implementation of IPv6 back in the early 2000’s AMS-IX has developed
into the biggest IPv6 peering point globally. Traffic and members
implementing IPv6 have grown rapidly in the last year.
Facilitating ‘For the good of the Internet’ initiatives, AMS-IX will continue a
global focus in 2009 to ensure knowledge and capacity of peering is widely
spread, according to Job Witteman, CEO.
“We are glad that regardless the global economic turmoil we see a year on
year growth of the Internet traffic as usual and the further development of our
member base. We expect to keep showing healthy figures for 2009 and are
looking forward to increasing our offerings and abilities even more,” said
Witteman. “As a non-profit organisation we must ensure we have a healthy
balance between attractive member fees on the one hand and sizable capital
& reserves and cash-flow on the other, for the continuous investment in our
platform. This dedication to offering a stable and efficient network keeps
paying off – not only in new members joining, but also in the amount of traffic
we exchange.”