Amsterdam: Our net is bigger than yours

Amsterdam's Peering Exchange, AMS-IX, is claiming that it is now the world's largest public Internet Exchange (Register story). Some rather impressive stats are quoted by their CTO:

"AMS-IX hit a historical milestone in November when traffic flowing across our infrastructure exceeded 200Gbit/s," said Henk Steenman, the exchange's CTO.

With traffic volumes increasing by ~3% per month, it does show that the market for Dutch porn is as strong as it has ever been. With much of the UK's infrastructure reliant on Telehouse, would be interesting to see the traffic stats on those Telehouse <--> AMX-IX links.

The yearly stats graph at the AMS-IX website show the size of the growth, and are impressive. the only times it hasn't been going up are the annual summertime lull (so, a European and not just a British phenomenon then) and during the festive season.