Frankfurt (Germany), 9 April 2025. A new global data throughput record has been set by DE-CIX, the world’s leading Internet Exchange (IX) operator. At 7.10pm Greenwich Meantime yesterday (3pm Eastern Time or 12.30am in India), a grand total of 25 terabits per second (Tbit/s) of peering traffic was pumped through DE-CIX’s IXs worldwide. This represents more than a doubling of global peering traffic at DE-CIX since 2020, up 130% in five years. 25 Tbit/s corresponds to the amount of data in a stack of printed A4 sheets of paper 20 times higher than mount Everest every second.
Unusually for global peak traffic records, yesterday’s peak did not co-occur with a traffic peak in one of cities where the operator has their major exchanges. Instead, it was the result of accumulated strong throughput across multiple cities – from Dallas to Madrid, Frankfurt, and Istanbul.
“The peak last night is the result of higher than usual data traffic from the confluence of multiple events, including the live streaming of sport and software updates, alongside the usual consumption of digital content and services,” explained Dr. Thomas King, CTO of DE-CIX. “This peak demonstrates the power of peering, the glue that binds together the different networks – including networks that supply video content, software downloads, and mobile Internet – that make up the Internet.”
30 Years of DE-CIX: Digital infrastructure from Germany for the world
For 30 years, DE-CIX has been operating critical digital infrastructure in Germany. The company launched its first Internet Exchange, DE-CIX Frankfurt, in 1995. Today, DE-CIX provides neutral exchange points worldwide, where Internet, cloud, content providers, and enterprise networks interconnect to exchange data securely and efficiently. DE-CIX Frankfurt, the oldest and largest Internet Exchange, connects nearly 1,100 networks. The globally interconnected DE-CIX platform is accessible from data centers in over 600 cities and interconnects more than 4000 networks worldwide.
For more information about the anniversary, visit our DE-CIX 30 Years website: https://www.de-cix.net/30years
What is a terabit per second? How much data is a throughput of 25 terabits per second?
- A terabit per second, Tbit/s or Tbps, is a dimension for the transmission speed of data.
- The next lower data rates are specified in gigabits per second (Gbit/s) and megabits per second (Mbit/s).
- 1 terabit per second is 10³ Gbit/s, 106 Mbit/s, 109 kbit/s, or 1012 bit/s, or 1,000,000,000,000 bit/s.
- Data traffic of 25 Tbit/s is created, for example, when close to 14 million TikTok videos are streamed simultaneously. The same goes for the amount of data in a stack of printed A4 sheets of paper 20 time higher than mount Everest every second
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