All around the world, Interconnection is changing the face of digital infrastructure and enabling businesses to serve customers in unprecedented ways. To succeed in today’s rapidly transforming economy, every business must understand—and leverage—Interconnection. Every business can and should leverage Interconnection to stay competitive in the digital age. Start with the Global Interconnection Index, a new global baseline to track, measure and forecast Interconnection Bandwidth. See all the detailed trends, insights and implications of Interconnection among your peers and around the world—and then take the next step. Download the Global Interconnection Index today http://eqix.it/SSIndex17

1. FUELING THE EXPLOSION OF THE
DIGITAL ECONOMY IN EUROPE
All around the world, Interconnection is changing the face of digital infrastructure and
enabling businesses to serve customers in unprecedented ways. To succeed in today’s rapidly
transforming economy, every business must understand—and leverage—Interconnection.

2. INTERCONNECTION:
/IN•TER•KUH•NEKT•SHUN/ [NOUN]
The deployment of IT traffic exchange
points integrating direct private connections
between counterparties, hosted in
carrier-neutral data center campuses, with
distributed IT components colocated.

3. 44%CAGR BANDWIDTH USAGE
20202016
1,451
Tbps335 Tbps
INTERCONNECTION BANDWIDTH GROWTH
IN EUROPE BY 2020
*Interconnection Bandwidth is defined as the capacity to transfer traffic via direct private interconnections
at traffic exchange points hosted inside carrier-neutral colocation data center campuses.
MRI
Brain Scans
1.1B
DNA
Sequences
620M
Autonomous
Vehicles
6.6M
E-Book
Distribution
750B
Shared
Web Pages
106B
App
Updates
Distribution
1.5B

4. Digital technology use can
create $1.36 trillion in additional
economic output in the world’s
top 10 economies in 2020.*
GROWING IMPORTANCE OF
THE DIGITAL ECONOMY
* Accenture Digital Density Index

5. AMSTERDAM
HIGH GROWTH
PARIS
STRONG VOLUME
INTERCONNECTION IN EUROPE
2020 PROJECTION
LONDON
LARGEST VOLUME
44%Projected
Growth&486Tbps
Bandwidth 44%Projected
Growth&486Tbps
Bandwidth
42% Projected
Growth&242 Tbps
Bandwidth 41% Projected
Growth&120 Tbps
Bandwidth
FRANKFURT
FASTEST GROWING

6. BANKING & INSURANCE
259 Tbps
2020 PROJECTION
TOP 3 INDUSTRY SEGMENTS IN EUROPE
TOTAL PROJECTED INTERCONNECTION BANDWIDTH
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TELECOM
360 Tbps
2020 PROJECTION
CLOUD & IT PROVIDERS
203 Tbps
2020 PROJECTION

7. 165% GROWTH*
ENTERPRISES INTERCONNECTING
TO CLOUD & IT PROVIDERS
An enterprise is a company operating in banking and insurance, manufacturing, securities and
trading, business and professional services, energy and utility, retail, healthcare or government.
*Compound Annual Growth Rate
FASTEST GROWING ENTERPRISE SEGMENT IN EUROPE
2020 PROJECTION

8. SERVICE PROVIDERS
INTERCONNECTING TO NETWORKS
A service provider is a company operating
in telecommunications, cloud and IT, or content and digital media.
LARGEST SERVICE PROVIDER SEGMENT IN EUROPE
2020 PROJECTION
378 Tbps

9. The need for Interconnection Bandwidth increases as companies grow larger,
become more geographically distributed and offer more distributed IT services.
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PROJECTED AVERAGE
INTERCONNECTION BANDWIDTH
BY NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
PROJECTED AVERAGE
INTERCONNECTION BANDWIDTH
BY NUMBER OF LOCATIONS
SERVICES
PROJECTED AVERAGE
INTERCONNECTION BANDWIDTH
BY NUMBER OF SERVICES
1-50 51-100 101-500
Number of Employees
501-1000 1000+ 1-2 3-5 6-10
Number of SaaS Providers
11-14 15+
150
1-2 3-5 6-10
Number of Sites
11-20 21+
USERS LOCATIONS
32
23
Interconnection Bandwidth Gbps
17
14
10
30
12
20
Interconnection Bandwidth Gbps200
50
100
178
123
6459
180
104
52
27
41
Interconnection Bandwidth Gbps
50
100
150
200

10. FURTHER INSIGHTS
STRONG
DEMAND
While London is expected to
remain the largest
Interconnection market in
Europe, Frankfurt is expected
to overtake Amsterdam as the
second-largest Interconnection
market in Europe, benefitting
from strong enterprise demand
BANKING &
INSURANCE
Banking and Insurance is
expected to add 200+ Tbps of
bandwidth by 2020, a greater
than sixfold increase,
catapulting it ahead of Cloud
and IT Services
ENTERPRISE
GROWTH
Of all the regions, the
Enterprise segments are
expected to capture the
highest bandwidth share by
2020, reaching 63% total
bandwidth share in the EU

11. THE GLOBAL INTERCONNECTION INDEX
Every business can and should leverage
Interconnection to stay competitive in the digital
age. Start with the Global Interconnection Index,
a new global baseline to track, measure and
forecast Interconnection Bandwidth. See all the
detailed trends, insights and implications of
Interconnection among your peers and around
the world—and then take the next step.
SEE THE INDEX