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Study shows how traffic to core Internet infrastructure during the Iberian blackout dropped by up to 70%, but did not stop.

Over the last decade, PeeringDB has shown that interconnection has become important to organizations whose networks don’t sell network services, such as enterprises and governments.

Despite massive investments by hyperscalers and CDNs into private backbone infrastructure, public Internet Exchanges (IXPs) remain a vital mechanism for traffic localization, reducing latency, and efficiently reaching local "eyeball" networks.

Participants at the PIMF Jamaica event identified the challenges of connecting people in the Caribbean and proposed solutions with measurable components to track the impact of their strategies.

A recent study of 472 IXPs shows a 49.2% increase in daily aggregate IXP traffic from January 2023 to December 2024.

Understanding how much of our Internet operations is susceptible to failures in the power distribution network is critical for measuring the Internet's resilience.

Global peering is not contracting; it is undergoing a structural transformation.

Internet Exchange Points offer a unique vantage point for studying the impact of Internet shutdown and outage events at a country and regional level.

Study reveals 4% of Dutch network paths are affected by middleboxes; nearly half are located outside the country.

Remote peering has quietly disrupted the benefits of anycast and IXPs.

A new study of 58 countries shows that many online government services are served and routed via foreign networks and have low HTTPS encryption adoption rates.

A fire in a major Internet hub in Cairo has significantly disrupted multiple major Internet service providers (ISPs) in the country.