Capacity Planning a Priority for LINX Networks

A year ago LINX were reporting record rates of network traffic growth, as the first anniversary of the pandemic approached. So how are things looking another year on, is it still on the rise or are we seeing online activity returning to a new normal?

In February 2021 LINX reported a 38% growth in overall network traffic when compared to the start of 2020. When the first UK lockdown commenced at the end of March 2020, LINX’s peak traffic record stood at 4.30 Terabits per second. It is now fast approaching 7Tbps with the latest peak reaching at 6.811Tbps.

Mike Hellers, Product Development Manager at LINX says: “Our growth is back to what we saw before the pandemic, but all of that happens on a higher base traffic level now. Besides the peak and average traffic levels, we are tracking a number of other metrics internally. One of those metrics is the relation between connected capacity (total capacity of all member ports) and peak traffic levels. Historically, this ratio is fairly stable and indicates how well our members manage the capacity on ingress and egress of their networks.”

While our members had enough capacity on their existing ports to handle the growth or reroute traffic where needed, the average traffic levels increased rapidly, indicated by the change in the ratio between connected capacity and traffic levels.

Throughout the last two years, we’ve seen members adding capacity with additional ports or upgrading to larger ports to catch up with the traffic growth. Still, until now, the ratio has not yet managed to reach pre-pandemic levels.

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