AMS-IX

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Mirror of the K-Root-Server in AMS-IX

Amsterdam Internet Exchange ( AMS-IX ) is a non-commercial Internet hub in Amsterdam . Since 2000, the node, which has existed since the beginning of the 1990s , has been operated by the company AMS-IX BV , which had previously existed under the name AMS-IX Association since December 1997 . Until 1994, the node was used exclusively by local academic institutions. With the connection of CERN in February 1994 and the opening of the node for private ISPs , the name AMS-IX was introduced. Even today, the node does not work in a profit-oriented and neutral manner.

Available interfaces

Ethernet is used in the AMS-IX . Members can choose between Gigabit Ethernet, 10 Gigabit Ethernet and 100 Gigabit Ethernet. According to its own statements, AMS-IX was the first Internet node at which 10 Gigabit Ethernet was available to members. It is possible to obtain multiples of these data rates by connecting several ports in parallel.

network

AMS-IX actually consists of seven separate locations, but these are all located in Amsterdam. The original locations are SARA (Watergraafsmeer) and NIKHEF (Watergraafsmeer). In the meantime, the Equinix , Global Switch , Telecity II and euNetworks locations have been added.

In terms of the network topology , the AMS-IX has a star-shaped structure, but with redundant central core switches .

Throughput and members

The AMS-IX became the Internet node with the most members in 2003 (then 178, currently 617 (as of September 2013)) and from 2005 to September 2008 the node with the highest data throughput worldwide. Today (as of September 2013) it is the Internet node with the second highest data volume and the largest non-commercial Internet node worldwide.

Data throughput at peak times date
12 GBit / s December 2002
21 GBit / s December 2003
48 GBit / s December 2004
120 GBit / s December 2005
207 Gbit / s November 2006
320 GBit / s September 2007
440 GBit / s September 2008
610 GBit / s April 2009
920 GBit / s January 2010
1 Tbit / s September 2010
1.45 Tbit / s November 2011
1.5 Tbit / s March 2012
2.0 Tbit / s November 2012
4.0 Tbit / s September 2015
8.0 Tbit / s April 2020

Statistics are offered on the website that show, on the one hand, the throughput over the course of the day and, on the other, a graph that shows the course of the year. The throughput during the day is updated every 5 minutes. On September 14, 2010, the network reached the 1 TBit / s mark for the first time. Five years later, on September 16, 2015, this top brand was quadrupled, i.e. 4 TBit / s passed through the network. Within five years, in April 2020, the peak throughput was doubled to 8 TBit / s.

Web links

Commons : AMS-IX  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ AMS-IX: History of AMS-IX
  2. Colocation traffic , statistics on ams-ix.net; Retrieved June 7, 2015
  3. ^ AMS-IX: AMS-IX Connected Parties
  4. prefix.pch.net
  5. Traffic statistics
  6. Blog entry about the achievement of 4 TBit / s
  7. https://www.ams-ix.net/ams/documentation/total-stats