Annual Report 2025

In 2024, the DE-CIX global ecosystem grew to over 4,000 connected networks, a 10% increase year-on-year, while total connected customer capacity expanded to 170 terabits, up 20% compared to 2023. Growth was driven by both the expansion of existing Internet Exchanges and the launch of five new IXs across Asia and the Middle East, alongside strong increases in connected networks, customer capacity, and peak traffic across key markets in North America, the Middle East, and Asia..

In 2023, connected networks in the DE-CIX ecosystem grew to over 3600, while connected customer capacity rose to 140.98 terabits. Traffic continued to grow strongly, with DE-CIX Frankfurt crossing the 16 terabits per second (Tbit/s) mark, and with four further IXs now in the “1Tbps club” – Dallas, New York, Madrid, and Mumbai. Peak peering traffic across the global platform reached a high of 22.36 Tbit/s, up 19% on 2022 levels. A total of 59 exabytes of data traffic was transferred over the global platforms in 2023.

2022 was a year of strong and healthy economic growth and geographical expansion for DE-CIX, and a year in which the structure and leadership of the company was put in place for the next decade of growth in digital services and interconnection demand. It was also a year that saw the gradual return to normality after a global health crisis the likes of which most of us have never seen before. 

The annual report 2021 looks back on the second year of the Covid-19 pandemic – a year during which the world began to stabilize into the “new normal”. The insatiable demand for digital applications and data-driven services was further boosted by the transformation that has occurred in the last couple of years – a steady process of digitalization, of optimization of workflows, of the expansion of methods of communication and entertainment, and the increasingly fine-grained interconnection of the planet.

In the remarkable year 2020, DE-CIX experienced one milestone after the other. The year show us how important a functioning, secure, and reliable digital infrastructure is for all areas of life.  Within just a few days in MArch 2020, average global data traffic rose between 15% and 39%, depending on the region. This resulted in the largest annual increase in peak traffic at De-CIX Frankfurt in its entire history – reaching 10.3 Terabits per second.

In 2019, milestones were achieved for many of our exchanges, and DE-CIX Frankfurt continued its success by breaking its own peak traffic world record. As well as entering the South East Asian market, our team was busy around the world, extending the reach of existing locations, setting up further enabled sites and access sites, and developing new services. On our 25th birthday year, we can see that the Internet and the digital infrastructures on which it is based have come of age.

In the 2017 financial year, DE-CIX successfully maintained its position as the world leader in operating Internet Exchanges. Consolidated total turnover across all parts of the company rose by 9 percent from 2016 to reach 31.8 million Euro. The DE-CIX Internet Exchanges in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and North America, which now total 13 worldwide, saw consolidated customer growth of almost 14 percent in 2017 and meanwhile serve more than 1,500 customers from over 100 countries.