DATA CENTRE PREDICTIONS
65%). Six out of 10 (62%) IT decision-
makers globally and over half (53%) in
the UK, are utilising virtual connections to
support these growth plans.
Key findings:
The GXI Vol. 3 delivers insights by
tracking, measuring and forecasting
growth in interconnection bandwidth
– the total capacity provisioned to
privately and directly exchange traffic,
with a diverse set of partners and
providers, at distributed IT exchange
points inside carrier-neutral colocation
data centres.
The GXI finds:
The ability to exchange large volumes of
data through interconnection is essential
to compete in the digital economy
• In response to rapidly growing volumes
of data, enterprise consumption of
interconnection bandwidth will grow at
a 64% CAGR globally, outpacing other
forms of business data exchange. This
is due to be even higher for EMEA, with
consumption growing at a 67% CAGR,
leading enterprises to account for 60%
of total interconnection bandwidth
in 2022. And, by 2022, London alone
will account for over a third (34%) of
European traffic, with leading European
cities – Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam
and Paris – together accounting for
almost 78% of European traffic.
• To manage increasing volumes of
data, enterprises are on average
deploying in nine locations, with
a total of 340 interconnections
to networks clouds and business
partners. The survey shines more
light on this – IT decision-makers in
the UK are utilising interconnection to
connect to other enterprises (20%),
network service providers (23%) and
cloud service providers (39%).
• The independent survey found
that over a third (34%) of IT
decision-makers in the UK, believe
interconnection can help their business
to gain competitive advantage within
the marketplace. This assertion was
true for almost half (46%) of global IT
decision-makers and for four out of 10
(39%) IT decision-makers in EMEA.
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Issue 09
Distance is the biggest performance killer
for digital business
• Deploying direct, private connections
at the Edge propels both application
performance and user experience.
• Today’s latency-sensitive workloads
require response times ranging from
<60 to <20 milliseconds, forcing IT
infrastructure closer to the points of
consumption (the Edge).
• According to the survey, a quarter
(25%) of IT decision-makers in the UK
are using interconnection to increase
speed of connectivity. This compares
to a finding of almost a third (31%) in
EMEA and over a third (34%) globally.
To add to this, six out of 10 (60%) IT
decision-makers in the UK are using
interconnection to improve security
and half (50%) are using it to reduce
the cost of connectivity.
Leading businesses are gaining
competitive advantage using a
combination of key interconnection
deployment models:
• Interconnecting to multiple network
providers across multiple Edge
locations is the most prominent use
case for interconnection bandwidth
and is expected to grow 4x by 2022.
According to the survey, optimising
the performance of networks is a key
priority for almost half (46%) of IT
decision-makers in the UK.
• Interconnecting to multiple clouds
and IT services across multiple Edge
locations and cloud regions represents
the next largest and fastest use of
interconnection bandwidth and is
predicted to grow 13x by 2022. The
move to multi-cloud strategies is
cited by respondents to the survey as
a priority for over a third (36%) of IT
decision-makers in the UK.
• Interconnecting to digital business
partners for financial services, content
and digital media and supply chain
integration makes up the remainder of
interconnection bandwidth use cases
and is forecasted to grow 5x by 2022. ◊
INTERCONNECTING
TO MULTIPLE
CLOUDS AND IT
SERVICES ACROSS
MULTIPLE EDGE
LOCATIONS AND
CLOUD REGIONS
REPRESENTS
THE NEXT
LARGEST AND
FASTEST USE OF
INTERCONNECTION
BANDWIDTH AND
IS PREDICTED TO
GROW 13X BY 2022.
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