As we step into 2026, it’s a good moment to pause and look back – not just at what launched, but at what was built behind the scenes to support what comes next.
2025 was one of the strongest years in Netrouting’s history. Growth accelerated, margins improved, and most importantly, we were able to reinvest heavily into the platform rather than slow things down. Instead of reacting to demand as it appeared, the focus shifted to planning earlier, building capacity ahead of time, and making decisions that would still make sense a year or two down the line.
This post isn’t a marketing recap or a list of announcements. It’s a practical look at what changed during 2025, why those changes mattered, and how they position Netrouting as we move deeper into 2026.
A Strong Year, Backed by Real Investment
From a business perspective, 2025 closed out on a high note. Revenue grew sharply, profitability followed, and the additional headroom allowed us to push more capital directly back into infrastructure.
Being part of a broader infrastructure group helped open doors on the facilities side – particularly around power, cooling, and long-term planning – but the progress customers saw throughout the year came down to deliberate choices made for Netrouting itself. The goal wasn’t expansion for expansion’s sake; it was to ensure growth didn’t come at the cost of reliability, performance, or operational stability.
That mindset shaped almost every technical and financial decision made during the year.
Late 2025: Foundations, Not Flash
The final quarter of 2025 was less about big announcements and more about getting the fundamentals right.
Upstream, Peering, and Capacity
One of the clearest priorities going into Q4 was avoiding last-minute capacity constraints. Rather than waiting for links to saturate, we moved early:
- 500 Gbps of new capacity went live with NTT (AS2914)
- Contracted 500 Gbps with TATA (AS6453), now in implementation, ahead of a Q1 2026 go-live.
- Direct peering was established at the Equinix Hong Kong Internet Exchange, offering direct access to local networks and improving latency for APAC traffic.
These changes weren’t made to inflate headline numbers. They were intentional infrastructure investments, focused on strengthening the platform and supporting sustainable growth as traffic increases, new regions come online, and customer workloads continue to evolve.
Facilities and Global Footprint
At the same time, physical expansion continued in parallel.
Miami saw its largest upgrade to date, including:
- Miami saw its largest upgrade to date, including:
- New cabinet deployments to support additional capacity
- Relocation into Equinix MI6
- On-site presence of our technical team, operating directly from the facility
- Local servicing of customer infrastructure from the Miami site
- Full interconnection with Equinix MI1
- Direct connectivity to NAP of the Americas for regional and international reach
In Europe and Asia, capacity quietly expanded in Frankfurt and Hong Kong, with new bare-metal inventory already landing. And toward the end of the year, groundwork was completed for Singapore, where first compute capacity is scheduled to go live by the end of Q1 2026.
Life After Launch: What Changed Day to Day
The benefit of doing this work early becomes obvious once things go live.
Provisioning is faster in the regions that matter most. Routing behavior is more consistent during peak periods. Inventory planning is no longer reactive. From the outside, the platform feels calmer – and that’s usually a good sign.
These aren’t features you see on a product page, but they show up in the places that count: fewer edge cases, fewer “we’ll get back to you” answers, and more confidence when customers ask about availability in specific locations.
Hardware That Actually Stands Out
Hardware decisions in 2025 were driven by one question: does this platform offer a meaningful improvement, or is it just incremental? That mindset shaped how we approach our bare metal servers focusing on systems that deliver real-world performance gains rather than marginal upgrades.
Rather than spreading inventory thin across dozens of similar SKUs, we focused on systems that clearly stood apart:
- AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D – optimized for cache-sensitive and high-frequency workloads, making it particularly well-suited for latency-critical applications, real-time processing, and performance-driven environments where single-thread speed and cache efficiency matter most.
- AMD EPYC 7702 – designed for dense, memory-heavy compute, offering high core counts and large memory capacity for virtualization platforms, databases, containerized workloads, and large-scale infrastructure deployments.
- AMD Ryzen 3700X – a cost-effective, high-frequency processor that delivers strong single-core performance, making it a practical choice for general-purpose workloads, development environments, and smaller deployments that don’t require enterprise-level density.
- Dual Intel Xeon Gold systems – balanced, enterprise-grade platforms built for stability, scalability, and consistent performance across mixed and multi-tenant workloads, commonly used for virtualization, shared environments, and long-running production systems.
To explore available configurations and see which platform best fits your workload, view our bare metal server options.
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These platforms continue to outperform alternatives in their respective categories, and based on demand, we’re currently building 60 new servers on these architectures.
We standardized on hardware platforms that offer reliable performance at scale, providing a stable foundation for future growth.
The Market Reality: Memory Pricing and Bare Metal
One topic that came up repeatedly throughout 2025 – and is becoming even more relevant in 2026 – is memory pricing.
RAM costs are rising quickly across the industry, reshaping the economics of VM-heavy platforms and short-term cloud deployments. As memory becomes scarcer and more expensive, predictable performance and long-term cost control start to matter a lot more.
This trend is one of the reasons bare metal continues to play a central role at Netrouting. When workloads are memory-bound, having direct access to physical resources often provides a clearer performance-to-cost advantage over shared environments.
We explored this in more detail here:
Server RAM Prices Are Skyrocketing – Time for Bare Metal?
Road Ahead: What 2026 Is Shaping Up to Be
With the groundwork laid in 2025, 2026 starts from a position of strength.
Singapore comes online in Q1. Additional server inventory is landing across North America, Europe, and APAC. Upstream and peering expansion continues as traffic grows. And most importantly, the platform is set up to scale without changing how it feels to use.
The focus remains the same: plan early, build deliberately, and avoid decisions that only make sense in the short term.
The priority moving forward remains consistent: execute early, scale methodically, and make infrastructure decisions that remain effective as requirements evolve.
