Traffic in Finland reached new levels
28 November 2004 in Root | Comments enabled
The Internet traffic in my home country has grown exponentially large this year. The Finnish Communication and Internet exchange (Ficix) reported that they are seeing a 300% growth in IP traffic within Finland! 
That is larger than the European IP traffic growth rate, which lies around 280%. To maintain network stability, Ficix has recommended all Finnish ISPs to prepere themselves for the aquisition of 10 Gbps network components (which does sound good on paper, but will it be enough?). The reason for the large increase in network traffic is believed to be the increasing demand for home broadband connections. Still, 52% of the homes in Finland connect through modem or ISDN while the rest are using some kind of broadband connection. The growth of ISP accounts have previously been at 100 000 a year, while that number was already reached in June this year.
I was personally amazed at the growth rate of the IP traffic inside this small country. On the other side I’m not, since there are more and more Internet content being offered by TV stations and other companies. For the stats from Ficix, have a look at Ficix statistics page.
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