Today's digital business leaders are leveraging Interconnection to solve for the complex integration and control challenges of an increasingly distributed infrastructure. To better understand and track how industry leaders are driving business advantage with digital-ready infrastructures, Equinix developed the Global Interconnection Index, which tracks, measures and forecasts the explosive growth in digital business.
Interconnection
The private exchange of data between companies
Interconnection Bandwidth
The total capacity provisioned to privately and directly exchange traffic with a diverse set of counterparties and providers at distributed IT exchange points inside carrier-neutral colocation data centers.
The rapid adoption of Interconnection Bandwidth across diverse industries
Industries surveyed for this Index include:
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CAGR*
Past and current bandwidth consumption
Projected bandwidth consumption
The chart above shows past, current and projected growth in the global consumption of Interconnection Bandwidth across all industries from 2017 to 2021.
Metro
Breakown
UNITED STATES
NEW YORK
HIGHEST VOLUME
49%
CAGR
Projected
Growth
878
Tbps
Interconnection
Bandwidth
WASHINGTON D.C.
STRONG VOLUME
40%
CAGR
Projected
Growth
525
Tbps
Interconnection
Bandwidth
SILICON VALLEY
STRONG GROWTH
44%
CAGR
Projected
Growth
464
Tbps
Interconnection
Bandwidth
CHICAGO
FASTEST GROWTH
52%
CAGR
Projected
Growth
617
Tbps
Interconnection
Bandwidth
EUROPE
LONDON
HIGHEST VOLUME
52%
CAGR
Projected
Growth
681
Tbps
Interconnection
Bandwidth
FRANKFURT
FASTEST GROWTH
58%
CAGR
Projected
Growth
373
Tbps
Interconnection
Bandwidth
AMSTERDAM
STRONG GROWTH
57%
CAGR
Projected
Growth
319
Tbps
Interconnection
Bandwidth
PARIS
STRONG VOLUME
51%
CAGR
Projected
Growth
210
Tbps
Interconnection
Bandwidth
LATIN AMERICA
SAO PAULO
HIGHEST VOLUME
64%
CAGR
Projected
Growth
331
Tbps
Interconnection
Bandwidth
RIO DE JANEIRO
STRONG VOLUME
60%
CAGR
Projected
Growth
154
Tbps
Interconnection
Bandwidth
BUENOS AIRES
FAST GROWTH
60%
CAGR
Projected
Growth
98
Tbps
Interconnection
Bandwidth
MEXICO CITY
STRONG GROWTH
51%
CAGR
Projected
Growth
97
Tbps
Interconnection
Bandwidth
ASIA PACIFIC
TOKYO
HIGHEST VOLUME
53%
CAGR
Projected
Growth
445
Tbps
Interconnection
Bandwidth
SINGAPORE
STRONG VOLUME
47%
CAGR
Projected
Growth
394
Tbps
Interconnection
Bandwidth
SYDNEY
STRONG GROWTH
48%
CAGR
Projected
Growth
274
Tbps
Interconnection
Bandwidth
HONG KONG
FASTEST GROWTH
55%
CAGR
Projected
Growth
248
Tbps
Interconnection
Bandwidth
Interconnection Around the World
2021 Projection
UNITED STATES
LARGEST VOLUME
45%
CAGR
Projected
Growth
3,318
Tbps
Interconnection
Bandwidth
EUROPE
STRONG VOLUME
48%
CAGR
Projected
Growth
1,921
Tbps
Interconnection
Bandwidth
ASIA
PACIFIC
HIGH GROWTH
51%
CAGR
Projected
Growth
2,220
Tbps
Interconnection
Bandwidth
LATIN
AMERICA
FASTEST
GROWING
59%
CAGR
Projected
Growth
755
Tbps
Interconnection
Bandwidth
Ecosystem Integration
2021 Projection
LARGEST VOLUME
66%
of Total Interconnection Bandwidth
Enterprises
Interconnecting to
NETWORK PROVIDERS TO SOLVE LATENCY
FASTEST GROWING
98%
Growth* in Interconnection Bandwidth
Enterprises
Interconnecting to
CLOUD & IT SERVICES TO SOLVE COMPLEXITY
*Compound Annual Growth Rate
Fastest-Growing Industries
Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of interconnection Bandwidth Consumption
2021 Projection
Energy &
Utility
73%
CAGR
Healthcare &
Life Sciences
70%
CAGR
Wholesale &
Retail Trade
67%
CAGR

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