45k user reviews & 1 million votes, over 29k web hosting brands & 85k plans since 2004!
Menu
WHTop → 📋 News → AMS-IX Sets Traffic Records as AI Fuels Internet Growth
Feb, 2026 : AMS-IX Sets Traffic Records as AI Fuels Internet Growth
📅 - AMS-IX ended 2025 with record traffic levels on its Amsterdam Internet Exchange, underlining the platform's continued importance as global demand for connectivity accelerates. The Ehandled 35.66 exabytes of data over the year, a 4 percent increase compared to 2024, as businesses and consumers relied more heavily on cloud services, streaming platforms, and AI-driven applications.
December marked the busiest month on record, with 3.21 exabytes of traffic, highlighting steady growth rather than short-term spikes.
The Amsterdam IX platform now connects 902 networks, including global content and technology companies, telecom operators, ISPs, and hundreds of regional and local networks. This [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - nLighten Expands French Footprint With Paris Acquisition - nLighten has expanded its European footprint with the acquisition of a data center facility in Émerainville, in the eastern Paris region, from MSP oXya. The transaction, announced this week in Paris, strengthens nLighten's presence in one of Europe's most strategically important digital infrastructure hubs and reflects growing enterprise demand for regional, sustainable, and AI-ready data center capacity.
The newly acquired Émerainville site becomes nLighten's eighth facility in France and adds to a portfolio of more than 30 data centers across seven European markets. Located in Paris's eastern data center cluster, the facility sits roughly one kilometer from nLighten's existing PAR1 [...]
📅 - Study: 70% of Leaders Lose Sleep Over Data Security - New research commissioned by Arelion shows corporate data security has overtaken all other priorities for enterprise network leaders as data flows span borders, clouds, and third-party networks. The study finds 70 percent of senior decision-makers in the US, UK, Germany, and France lose sleep over protecting critical data.
The Arelion study indicates that corporate data security has become the dominant concern for enterprise network leaders, with anxiety levels rising as data increasingly moves across borders, clouds, and third-party infrastructures
According to the report, 70 percent of senior decision-makers across the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and France say concerns [...]
📅 - Nautilus Secures Series B to Scale Its AI Liquid Cooling - Nautilus Data Technologies has closed a strategic Series B financing round to accelerate the global expansion of its facility-scale liquid cooling platform, a move that reflects intensifying demand for AI-ready data center infrastructure. The company says the investment will also advance its expansion across the United States and Europe, while supporting its pursuit of NVIDIA DA-12515 certification.
The round was led by Pangaea Ventures and will support manufacturing scale-up, order fulfillment, go-to-market expansion, and continued product innovation as data center operators race to deploy higher-density compute environments.
The fresh capital arrives as artificial intelligence and [...]
📅 - Cisco announced the debut of the Cisco 360 Partner Program for the AI era - The new curriculum, designed for developers, consultants, managed services providers, resellers, and other partner business models, better prepares Cisco partners to deliver customer outcomes in areas such as AI-ready data centers, future-proofed workspaces, and digital resilience.
The Cisco 360 Partner Program aims to provide clarity and enable partners to achieve more predictable revenue. At the same time, the new Cisco Partner Locator tool allows clients to find the perfect partner across major Cisco portfolios such as Security, Networking, Collaboration, Services, Splunk, and Cloud and AI Infrastructure.
"With our partners, we've strengthened what was already a world-class ecosystem [...]
📅 -