Akamai Announces Q209 'State Of The Internet' Report

Akamai Technologies, a player in the video, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online space, has announced the release of the 2nd Quarter, 2009 edition of its quarterly State of the Internet report available for download at www.akamai.com/stateoftheinternet. Leveraging published reports and information gathered from its network, Akamai’s quarterly report provides insight into key Internet statistics such as origin of attack traffic, network outages, and broadband connectivity levels across the globe.

Highlights and trends from the report for India follow:

* Ranked #20 globally for number of unique IP addresses seen by Akamai, with over 3 million unique IPs (Up 57 percent year-over-year, and 8 percent from Q1 2009)

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* Ranked #107 globally for average connections speed, at 895 Kbps

* Ranked #4 globally, with 3.93 percent of observed attack traffic

* Ranked #166 globally for number of unique IP addresses per capita, with 0.0029

* Ranked #65 globally for high broadband adoption, with 1.1 percent of connections to Akamai at speeds over 5 Mbps (Up 75 percent year-over-year, and up 18 percent from Q1 2009)

* Ranked #89 globally for broadband adoption, with 5.5 percent of connections to Akamai at speeds over 2 Mbps (Up 18 percent year-over-year, and up 3.4 percent from Q1 2009)

* Ranked #129 globally for broadband penetration, with 0.0002 broadband IPs per capita in Q2 2009

* Ranked #67 globally for narrowband adoption, with 27 percent of connections to Akamai at speeds below 256 Kbps (Up 4 percent year-over-year, and up 16 percent from Q1 2009)

* Ranked #157 globally for narrowband penetration, with 0.0008 narrowband IPs per capita in Q2 2009

Fastest Indian States

Similar to trends seen in the global data for the second quarter of 2009, many states in India maintained average speeds above 768 Kbps. Haryana’s average speed of 1271 Kbps moved them into the top spot as the fastest state followed by Karnataka in second place at 1100 Kbps and Kerala in the third place at 1086 Kbps.

Attack Traffic

During the second quarter of 2009, Akamai observed attack traffic originating from 201 unique countries, up from 68 in the first quarter. The United States and China continued to be the two largest sources of attack traffic, accounting for nearly 45 percent of observed attack traffic in total followed by South Korea with 6.83 percent and India at 3.93 percent. During the quarter, Akamai observed attack traffic targeted at more than 4,100 unique ports, with 10 ports experiencing roughly 90 percent of the observed attacks.

Internet Connectivity

In the second quarter of 2009, nearly 425 million unique IP addresses connected to the Akamai network – just over one percent more than in the first quarter of 2009, and nearly 23 percent more than the same quarter a year ago.