Return of CINX

The ISPA has re-launched CINX (the Cape Town Internet Exchange). PR here.

Nothing on the old CINX and why it was discontinued, except for a rather oblique statement that there is now has "more than enough Internet traffic to justify an exchange for the city".

No graphs for the exchange yet, but the TENET folks are on the ball and you can view their port graphs here. 10 Mbps in Cape Town doesn't seem like much compared to the 100 Mbps of JINX (which looks suspiciously flat, although there is a 175 Mbps spike in there).

Excellent news for local providers.

AMS-IX breaks 600 Gbps

The previous post about AMS-IX embedded the traffic graph instead of displaying a snapshot. At least I noticed that AMS-IX now pushes over 600 Gbps [peak] of traffic through the exchange!


But what's this? Number 2 exchange DE-CIX claims a 650+ Gbps peak:


Does that mean the Deutscher Commercial Internet Exchange is now #1?
Comparison of the mean throughputs (AMS-IX: 375 Gbps, DE-CIX: 299 Gbps), daily peaks (AMS-IX: 560 Gbps, DE-CIX: 460 Gbps), and number of interconnected members (AMS-IX: 311, DE-CIX: 264) shows AMS-IX still firmly in the lead. But DE-CIX is forging ahead - AMS-IX's lead doesn't seem as clear as it once was.

AMS-IX tops 350 Gbps

AMS-IX just keeps carrying more and more traffic. Their latest figures top 350 Gbps:

Take note Teraco / JINX!

AMS-IX breaks 300 Gbps

AMS-IX finally breaks the 300 Gbps mark.

And they'd been stuck on 287 Gbps for so long I thought there was an infrastructure-related limit.

Considering they announced reaching 250 Gbps in February, this implies a compound growth rate of about 3.5%-4% per month.

[And from a presentation POV, interesting to note that the new baseline is not 0, but 100 Gbps! This is more than any exchange not in the top 5!)