The Frankfurt Internet hub DE-CIX recorded a record data throughput on Tuesday evening. Shortly after eight o’clock in the evening the value rose to 10 Tbit / s for the first time. In addition, the group reported further top values ​​at the locations New York, Madrid, Marseille, Istanbul and Dubai.

This is not the first record that the operator of the Internet node was able to announce this year. In March, at the beginning of the corona pandemic, the data throughput in Frankfurt rose to 9 Tbit / s for the first time. According to DE-CIX, the pandemic and the associated home office for many workers in particular lead to high demand on the Internet.

Compared to the previous year, the value rose by around 40 Percent: In November 2019 this was still around 7.1 Tbit / s. According to DE-CIX, such high increases are unusual, the data throughput usually grows at around 10 percent annually.

US -Voice, video streams and gaming In addition to the high number of people in the home office, the US election currently also contributes to the high data throughput. In addition, the demand for entertainment on the Internet continued to grow, with video streams and computer games being primarily responsible here. For example, the value of 10 Tbit / s corresponds to the simultaneous playback of over 2.2 million HD videos.

Dr. Thomas King, CTO of DE-CIX emphasized that the Internet can deliver such high data rates and is stable. Now it is a matter of further increasing the quality of the data transmission.

(cbo)