Feb 012012
Akamai has just released its Q3 State of the Internet (SOTI) report for 2011.
Highlights from the report after the break:
- Connection speeds
- Among the 100 fastest cities worldwide, cities in Asia continue to dominate the list, including South Korean cities rounding out the top 5 and 57 cities in Japan making the list
- South Korea had the highest average connection speed, at 16.7 Mbps, as well as the highest average peak connection speed, at 46.8 Mbps
- Singapore ranked fourth on table and 33rd in the world with 4.5 Mbs (broadband)
- Based on data collected by Ericsson, mobile data traffic continued to double on a year-over-year basis, and grew 18% between the second and third quarters of 2011
- Narrowband connectivity
- Countries in the regional experienced decline, ranging from losses of more than 50% in Taiwan and Singapore
- Unusually large quarterly increase was seen in Thailand –probably due to the massive and widespread flooding that occurred in Q3
- South Korea saw increase YoY but still retains scant adoption rate at 0.3% (just over 61.000 unique IP addresses connecting to Akamai at speeds below 256bps)
- Connection speeds/data consumption on mobile networks
- A provider in Singapore saw average peak connection speeds grow by more than 100% QoQ
- A carrier in Thailand posted strong growth in content download volume – this may point to more thai citizens relying more heavily on their mobile devices for Web-based communication and to obtain critical information during a time of crisis
- Attack traffic
- Indonesia became the top attack traffic source, accounting for 14% of observed attack traffic in total
- Taiwan and China held the second and third place spots, respectively, accounting for just under 20% of observed attack traffic combined
Find out more information at www.akamai.com/
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