2021 Global Internet Map A Tour of TeleGeography’s

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A Tour of TeleGeography’s

2021 Global Internet Map


OutlineMethodology: What we’re depicting

Design: How we’re conveying it

Data: The trends we see

Q&A


International internet bandwidth – aggregate of cross-border router-to-router public internet capacity

• Data gathered by TeleGeography through surveys and supplemental internal estimates of hundreds of public internet backbone providers operating in more than 180 countries.

• Does NOT depict: layer 2 capacity, private IP links (content provider networks, research/education networks, etc)

Average traffic - sum of all traffic across a link divided by the number of seconds in the month

Peak traffic - the 95th percentile. Calculated by dividing one month’s traffic into 5-minute increments, ranking the traffic levels of each increment, and removing the top 5 percent.

Prices – 10GigE IPT, weighted median port prices. Excludes installation and local access

Methodology: What we’re depicting


TeleGeography DatasetsIP bandwidth• Global Internet Geography

IX data• internetexchangemap.com and

operator websites

Cloud region/onramp data • Cloud & WAN Infrastructure

IP transit pricing• TeleGeography Pricing Suite


Design: How we’re conveying it



Each region’s circle scaled by global bandwidth share


Colored part of outer ring shows intra-regional share


Each region has designated color on map and in all figs. Route colors depict which regions share specific routes


Numbers depict global rankings of top metros


Data: The trends we see


Largest route group? Intra-Europe by a landslide, followed by intra-Asia.

Largest inter-regional routes? Several U.S-linked routes: Brazil, China, UK, Japan


Tunneling down to Europe

Fast route growth? FRA-IST at nearly 40% CAGR

Biggest Eastern European route? FRA-MSK


Tunneling down to Europe Europe has world’s highest share of intra-regional bandwidth-75%


Tunneling down to Europe

FLAPs are ranked 1-4 in that order as the world’s largest int’l internet bandwidth hubs


Asia’s capacity just surpassed North America’s

Largest market – Europe

Growth surged in 2020. Aggregate global international internet bandwidth nearly tripled since 2016


Marseille has global reach

FLAPs + Singapore are dominant regional markets

Latin America’s hub isn’t in Latin America


Robust increases across global markets


APACJakarta: explosive growthSingapore/Hong Kong: rapid pace for mature markets


EuropeMarseille and Sofia: outsized growth for the region


Vast majority of operators hold off on upgrades until peak utilization hits 60%

Utilization is lowest in Europe – capacity provisioning stays far ahead of traffic levels

Unsurprisingly, average and peak traffic surged nearly 50% y-o-y in 2020, up from about 20% increase in 2019



HighlightsEurope and U.S.: Lots of “on-net” locations with comparable ratesSingapore and Hong Kong: gaining competitivenessJ-burg and São Paulo: quickly getting more competitiveMumbai, Sydney, BA, Santiago: still prohibitive


DE-CIX FRA and AMS-IX AMS: Setting new traffic records

US, Europe, and Asia: Similar pace of new IX deployment. Asia edges out Europe


Broad global distribution of onramps. Highest metro concentration? Ashburn, London, Tokyo, Frankfurt

AMZN and GOOG lead on edge onramp locations

Asia has highest concentration of cloud availability zones, but wide distribution across Europe and North America too

AMZN, GOOG, and MSFT have comparable numbers of availability zones.


HighlightsAMZN zone concentration: Ashburn, Oregon, Tokyo, Seoul have highest number of zonesOnramps: Nearly 100 as of Q1 2020Planned regions: Add Osaka, Zurich, Hyderabad, and Melbourne to the two shown here


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