ICYMI: we recently launched a dynamic new tool called the Market Connectivity Score (MCS).
The MCS is our answer to the question “Where is the next big hub going to be?” and pulls from our wide array of research areas to evaluate the health of more than 3,000 metropolitan markets worldwide.
Today, let's take a brief look at three of the markets highlighted in the MCS: Frankfurt, Singapore, and São Paulo.
Frankfurt
Long-established as a regional center of networking, peering, and data center development, Frankfurt tops the MCS list as the strongest connectivity market in the world.
The home of the world’s largest data center-neutral IX, DE-CIX, Frankfurt has the world’s strongest peering ecosystem (both by numbers of IX platforms present and numbers of ASNs connected) and strongest level of cloud development. No other city has more connected international internet capacity or number of transport carriers serving the market.
Singapore
Singapore is indisputably one of the world’s strongest interconnection hubs, but it's not without weaknesses.
The first market to introduce a moratorium on new data center development in 2019, its government has struggled with increasing concerns over the power used by the local data center sector. It may surprise some to see that the MCS ranks Singapore not just among the largest, but also among the fastest-growing, markets in Asia. The reason is the city-state’s subsea sector. Not only does it have a massive concentration of cables already, but more new cables are slated to land there in the near future than anywhere else in the world.
São Paulo
São Paulo is a critical market for Latin American connectivity, ranking highest not only in Brazil but in the entire region.
Among other metrics, it benefits from favorable IP Transit pricing, with Miami-São Paulo remaining one of the most competitive routes to or from Latin America. São Paulo also hosts an incredible number of internet exchanges alongside a high number of ASNs connecting to those exchanges.
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Jon Hjembo
Senior Research Manager Jonathan Hjembo joined TeleGeography in 2009 and heads the company’s data center research, tracking capacity development and pricing trends in key global markets. He also specializes in research on international transport and internet infrastructure development, with a particular focus on Eastern Europe, and he maintains the dataset for TeleGeography’s website, internetexchangemap.com.