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In 2025 , DE-CIX celebrates 30 years since the establishment of the company and DE-CIX Frankfurt , its first IX .
From video conferencing and streaming services to gaming – there were significant differences in terms of usage over the course of the second half of 2024 : Video conferencing saw strong seasonal changes , with growth of up to 30 % in the third quarter of 2024 , after the summer slow-down . The level reduced slightly during the festive season over the turn of the year . Usage of Video-on-Demand streaming services stayed consistently high throughout the second half of the year , showing the extent to which these services have become the standard for many viewers .
Background : How much is 68 exabytes ?
• The transmission speed of data is specified in terabits per second ( Tbit / s ).
• 1 terabit per second is 10 ³ Gbit / s , 106 Mbit / s , 109 kbit / s , or 1012 bit / s , or 1,000,000,000,000 bit / s .
• 8 Terabits = 1 Terabyte ( TB ), 1,000 TB = 1 Petabyte ( PB ), and 1,000 PB = 1 Exabyte ( EB )
• 68 exabytes ( EB ) is the amount of data that streaming a 2-million-year-long football match in high definition would require .
Online gaming , which contributed the largest amount of traffic of the three traffic classes examined , also remained consistently high over Q3 and Q4 2024 , with a slight uptake during the festive season . and secure connections at DE-CIX Internet Exchanges are essential for our modern way of life ,” says Ivo Ivanov , CEO , DE-CIX .
These highs are reflected at individual DE-CIX locations around the globe .
For example , on a regional level , DE-CIX North America saw in excess of 7000 PB , with DE-CIX New York experiencing over 4348 petabytes ( PB ) of data flowing over the exchange during the year . It reached a peak of 1.7 Tbit / s , representing growth of 10 % in 2024 . DE-CIX Dallas experienced 2630 PB with a peak of 1.35 Tbit / s , that is growth of 50 % in 2024 .
“ In this , our 30th anniversary year at DE-CIX , we again see the enormous importance of interconnection for powering daily life for millions of people . Whether it ’ s for communication , entertainment , learning , health , data-based products and apps , artificial intelligence or the transmission of global sports highlights – the fast
“ Our Internet Exchanges not only connect people and communities worldwide but also bring individual companies and entire economies together to do business .”
DE-CIX offers its interconnection services in close to 60 locations in Europe , Africa , North and South America , the Middle East and Asia .
Accessible from data centers in over 600 cities worldwide , DE-CIX interconnects thousands of network operators ( carriers ), Internet service providers ( ISPs ), content providers and enterprise networks from more than 100 countries , and offers peering , cloud and other interconnection services . DE-CIX Frankfurt is the largest IX in Europe and one of the largest Internet Exchanges in the world . p
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