Akamai announced the state of the Internet report for the Fourth Quarter – 2009 in Bangalore last week. Leveraging information gathered from its network, the Akamai report provides insight into key Internet statistics such as origin of attack traffic and broadband connectivity levels across the globe. The report has several interesting facts for India. Let us take a brief look into the report.
India was ranked 114 for average connections speed, at 849 kbps. Haryana topped the list in the 4th quarter with an average speed of 1103 kbps followed by Kerala in the second position with an average speed of 1065 kbps. India also ranked 8th, with 3.3 percent of observed attack traffic. Russia remained the top attack traffic source, accounting for 13 percent of observed attack traffic in total. India ranked 20 globally for number of unique IP addresses seen by Akamai, with over 3 million IPs. Delhi and Maharashtra continue to top the list with over 1 million unique IPs each. India also ranks 159 globally for number of unique IP addresses per capita, with 0.0030.
Fastest Indian States in terms of connection speeds:
Many states in India maintained average speeds above 768 Kbps, After making way for Kerala to move to the top of the list in the third quarter, Haryana is back on top of the list in the fourth quarter as the fastest Indian state with an average speed of 1,103 kbps. Kerala moved down to the second spot with an average speed of 1,065 kbps followed by Karnataka which retained its third spot with an average speed of 1,015 kbps.
As far as global average connection speeds are considered – South Korea, Hong Kong, and Japan provided the highest average measured connection speed by country surpassing 7.5 Mbps average connection speed in the fourth quarter. During the fourth quarter, 96 countries had average connection speeds below 1 Mbps, down from 103 countries in the prior quarter. Connection speeds below 100 Kbps was measured in only three countries in the fourth quarter – less than half as many as in the third quarter.
You can download the detailed report from www.akamai.com/stateoftheinternet.
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