Submarine cables are part of the Internet’s “backbone”. Most of the world’s Internet traffic travels over these cables connecting continents and countries under the ocean. Therefore, they play an important role in meeting the needs of international bandwidth usage. What are submarine cables? Submarine cables or submarine communications cables are optical fiber cables that lay
AMS-IX (Amsterdam Internet Exchange) is an independent, neutral and non-profit Internet Exchange Point. It is a member of the European Internet Exchange Association (Euro-IX). AMS-IX Infrastructure and interconnection AMS-IX is one of the largest hubs for Internet traffic in the world; established in the 1990s in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Nowadays, it operates multiple interconnection platforms
Internet Exchange Points or IXPs are a key element of the functioning of the Internet. The Internet has become an essential tool for many people. Thousands of millions of people use it every day for checking their email, visiting their favorite websites and purchasing in eCommerce sites. Many people know how to use the network
DE-CIX (Deutscher Commercial Internet Exchange) is one of the Internet Exchange Points that carries more traffic worldwide. Currently, it operates neutral interconnection platforms in Europe, the Middle East, North America and Asia. DE-CIX Infrastructure and interconnection The mission of DE-CIX is to make interconnection easy anywhere. It was established in the 1990s in Frankfurt, Germany,
How has the Internet changed over the years? The Opte Project, by Barrett Lyon, captures the evolution of the Internet from 1997 to 2021. As the Internet is a network of networks, Barrett Lyon has leveraged the connections among all those networks to create a map of the Internet. This visual representation of the Internet
ESpanix is a Spanish non-profit organization that manages and maintains a neutral Internet Exchange Point in Spain. Stackscale is present on ESpanix with a clear objective: improving the connection routes to all providers that exchange traffic there. ESpanix’ Infrastructure and interconnection ESpanix Internet Exchange Point has its own data center in Madrid and its own
178 Terabits per second is the new Internet Speed world record, achieved by a team of engineers at University College London (UCL). 178 Terabits per second: 178,000,000 Megabits per second This new record sets the world’s fastest Internet Speed at 178Tbps. It was achieved by the research team led by Dr Lidia Galdino at UCL,
