Internet exchanges in India have been recording significant rises in peak traffic as more and more people start working from home due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Extreme IX, Mumbai IX, and the National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) have been recording sharp increases of up to 100Gbps in traffic. Note that these exchanges don't necessarily capture all internet traffic in India, but do count for major peered companies like Facebook, Google, Cloudflare, and Amazon Web Services, which serve a significant share of this traffic. User JB700 on India Broadband Forum first spotted the surge on Extreme IX, noting that his internet speed was limited to a fifth of his advertised 100Mbps connection when doing a test on a Singapore sever last night (I observed a similar slump in my 125Mbps connection). As the weeks go and more people start working from home and relying on home connections, this surge is likely to increase even further. Here's Extreme IX's traffic over one month (updated data). Notice how the smaller peak exceeds the higher peak as the days go by; this means that traffic during working hours (a little time after people wake up) has increased during peak times by more than 100Gbps on this exchange alone. The same applies for Mumbai IX, which bills itself as the largest internet exchange in India, which saw its highest traffic in a month on 19 March (yesterday, as of this piece coming out). And note that this graph uses terabits per second as…
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