Surfshark, a cybersecurity company, announced an advancement in VPN (Virtual Private Network) hardware technology with the launch of the world's first 100Gbps servers in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
This development represents a major leap forward from the standard 10Gbps servers -- a leap designed to meet the increasing demands of today's digital landscape.
Surfshark, a cybersecurity company, introduces 100Gbps bandwidth servers in response to the growing demand for higher bandwidth and to ensure VPN services won't become a bottleneck as internet speeds continue to rise.
According to Donatas Budvytis, Chief Technology Officer at Surfshark, this change is happening due to several factors, including increased devices per household requiring higher network capacity to perform large software updates and ensure higher bitrates.
Surfshark's new 100Gbps servers allow VPN technology to be future-proof and ready for the growing demand when the shift to higher-capacity hardware happens.
Increased bandwidth also reduces the need for throttling or deprioritizing traffic, allowing users to get closer to their maximum internet speeds more often, even when backing up heavy documents to the cloud or downloading a game.
For this solution, Surfshark has chosen the Amsterdam location due to its impressive internet exchange (AMS-IX), which handles over 14 trillion bits per second, making it one of the world's largest internet exchanges by traffic volume. To put this into perspective, that's roughly 1.75 terabytes of data every second, ~560,000 simultaneous 4K streams, equivalent to about 7.5 million people watching TikTok videos simultaneously, or around 63 million people playing Fortnite at once.