FUELING THE EXPLOSION OF THEDIGITAL ECONOMY IN EUROPE

All around the world, Interconnection is changing the face of digital infrastructure and enabling businesses to serve customers in unprecedented ways. To succeed in today’s rapidly

transforming economy, every business must understand—and leverage—Interconnection.

INTERCONNECTION: /IN•TER•KUH•NEKT•SHUN/ [NOUN]

The deployment of IT traffic exchange points integrating direct private connections between counterparties, hosted in carrier-neutral data center campuses, with distributed IT components colocated.

44%CAGR BANDWIDTH USAGE

20202016

1,451Tbps335 Tbps

INTERCONNECTION BANDWIDTH GROWTHIN EUROPE BY 2020

*Interconnection Bandwidth is defined as the capacity to transfer traffic via direct private interconnectionsat traffic exchange points hosted inside carrier-neutral colocation data center campuses.

MRIBrain Scans

1.1B

DNASequences

620M

AutonomousVehicles

6.6M

E-BookDistribution

750B

SharedWeb Pages

106B

AppUpdates

Distribution

1.5B

Digital technology use can create $1.36 trillion in additional economic output in the world’s top 10 economies in 2020.*

GROWING IMPORTANCE OF THE DIGITAL ECONOMY

* Accenture Digital Density Index

AMSTERDAM

HIGH GROWTH

PARIS

STRONG VOLUME

INTERCONNECTION IN EUROPE2020 PROJECTION

LONDON

LARGEST VOLUME

44% ProjectedGrowth&486 Tbps

Bandwidth 44% ProjectedGrowth&486 Tbps

Bandwidth

42% ProjectedGrowth&242 Tbps

Bandwidth 41% ProjectedGrowth&120 Tbps

Bandwidth

FRANKFURT

FASTEST GROWING

BANKING & INSURANCE

259 Tbps2020 PROJECTION

TOP 3 INDUSTRY SEGMENTS IN EUROPETOTAL PROJECTED INTERCONNECTION BANDWIDTH

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TELECOM

360 Tbps2020 PROJECTION

CLOUD & IT PROVIDERS

203 Tbps2020 PROJECTION

165% GROWTH*

ENTERPRISES INTERCONNECTING TO CLOUD & IT PROVIDERS

An enterprise is a company operating in banking and insurance, manufacturing, securities and trading, business and professional services, energy and utility, retail, healthcare or government.

*Compound Annual Growth Rate

FASTEST GROWING ENTERPRISE SEGMENT IN EUROPE2020 PROJECTION

SERVICE PROVIDERSINTERCONNECTING TO NETWORKS

A service provider is a company operatingin telecommunications, cloud and IT, or content and digital media.

LARGEST SERVICE PROVIDER SEGMENT IN EUROPE2020 PROJECTION

378 Tbps

The need for Interconnection Bandwidth increases as companies grow larger, become more geographically distributed and offer more distributed IT services.

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PROJECTED AVERAGE INTERCONNECTION BANDWIDTH

BY NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES

PROJECTED AVERAGE INTERCONNECTION BANDWIDTH

BY NUMBER OF LOCATIONS

SERVICES

PROJECTED AVERAGE INTERCONNECTION BANDWIDTH

BY NUMBER OF SERVICES

1-50 51-100 101-500Number of Employees

501-1000 1000+ 1-2 3-5 6-10Number of SaaS Providers

11-14 15+

150

1-2 3-5 6-10Number of Sites

11-20 21+

USERS LOCATIONS

32

23

Interconnection Bandwidth Gbps

1714

10

30

12

20

Interconnection Bandwidth Gbps200

50

100

178

123

6459

180

104

5227 41

Interconnection Bandwidth Gbps

50

100

150

200

FURTHER INSIGHTS

STRONG DEMAND

While London is expected to remain the largest

Interconnection market in Europe, Frankfurt is expected to overtake Amsterdam as the second-largest Interconnection market in Europe, benefitting

from strong enterprise demand

BANKING & INSURANCE

Banking and Insurance is expected to add 200+ Tbps of bandwidth by 2020, a greater

than sixfold increase, catapulting it ahead of Cloud

and IT Services

ENTERPRISEGROWTHOf all the regions, the

Enterprise segments are expected to capture the

highest bandwidth share by 2020, reaching 63% total

bandwidth share in the EU

THE GLOBAL INTERCONNECTION INDEX

Every business can and should leverage Interconnection to stay competitive in the digital age. Start with the Global Interconnection Index, a new global baseline to track, measure and forecast Interconnection Bandwidth. See all the detailed trends, insights and implications of Interconnection among your peers and around the world—and then take the next step.

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