Internet traffic in Belgium regularly peaked at over 500 Gbit/s in 2024. These peaks occurred, for example, on Monday, November 4th – after the autumn holidays and the day before the US elections – with a peak of 520 Gbit/s, or 15 percent more than the largest peak in 2023 (462 Gbit/s). High peak values of 515 Gbit/s per second were also seen on September 3rd and December 10th at their busiest.
Furthermore, traffic was higher than usual during the busy sports summer of 2024. Due to events such as the European Football Championship and the Olympic Games, there was no traditional summer slump.
In addition, NaWas connected to BNIX in 2024. As one of the largest scrubbing centers in Europe, NaWas, the anti-DDoS service of the Dutch-speaking Foundation for the Management of Internet Providers (NBIP), offers on-demand protection against such attacks.
In 2024, BNIX welcomed eight new participants, including the (Romanian) parent company of the new operator Digi, bringing the total to 76. The largest traffic volumes come from Proximus, VOO, Microsoft, Orange, and Akamai, among others.
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By offering NaWas on BNIX, we are offering our participants the opportunity to make the most of their port and are also helping to make the Belgian Internet more secure.
Interestingly, probably due to increasing traffic peaks, the smaller ports to the BNIX network are being used less and less. The trend towards 100G physical ports continues and is gradually becoming the norm.