Providing High Internet Traffic Using IXPs during the COVID-19 and its Impact on DBP

Abstract

During the decays of 21st century and the past century, the networks technology has witnessed huge and continuous improvements in terms of speed and dissemination, and the internet as well. On the other hand, the demand on internet services have dramatically becomes more, and that demand has been increased rapidly during the crisis of COVID-19. The demand on domestic bandwidth has been increased during and COVID-19 period, but what make things strange is that the demand after COVID is as the same as during the period of COVID, and some countries have exceeded the bandwidth range. To fulfill such high demand of bandwidth, governments have resorted to new technologies represented by the Internet Exchange Point (IXPs) as a replacement of traditional exchange points, in order to achieve high bandwidth and speed rate. This work represents the concept of IXP and its benefits, comparisons between countries that adopted this technology, and other comparisons to Arab Countries. It focuses on the demand of bandwidth in the world and the reasons of that demand stability during and after COVID period and the need for IXPs and how that affect the Domestic Broadband Production (DBP). As a result, most of developed countries have extended the IXPs in order to provide high bandwidth, but still Arab World not familiar with it. Adopting the IXPs has reflected on the DBP in general positively. Keywords-- COVID-19, IXP, DBP, Networks, Bandwidth.