China is now the top source of observed attack traffic. South Korea boasts both highest average connection speed and highest average peak connection speed.
Fourth Quarter, 2011 State of the Internet report released by Akamai Technologies.
China, at 13 percent, generated the most attack traffic observed by Akamai. The United States (10%) and Indonesia (7.6%) rounded out the top three.
The findings were in the Fourth Quarter, 2011 State of the Internet report released by Akamai Technologies.
In the fourth quarter of 2011, the average measured connection speed for known MOBILE providers worldwide ranged from a high of slightly more than 5 Mbps to a low of 163 kbps.
Approximately 75 percent of the surveyed providers had average connection speeds above 1 Mbps.
Using data collected by Ericsson, the report showed that volume of mobile data traffic in the fourth quarter of 2011 doubled year-over-year and grew 28% quarter-over-quarter.
Going into its fifth year, the report incorporates four-year’s worth of trending data, illustrating how Internet connectivity has improved over time.
Based on data gathered from the Akamai Intelligent Platform, the report provides insight into key global statistics such as Internet penetration, mobile traffic and data consumption, origins of attack traffic, IPv6 adoption and global and regional connection speeds.
In the fourth quarter of 2011, more than 628 million unique IP addresses from 236 countries and regions connected to the Akamai Intelligent Platform. This represents 2.1 percent more IP addresses than connected in the third quarter of 2011, and an increase of 13 percent compared to the same quarter a year ago.
The Fourth Quarter, 2011 State of the Internet report includes a new section that will appear annually going forward and that tracks trends since the report’s inception in 2008.
Speed
Cities in the Asia Pacific region enjoy the fastest connection speeds in the world. Out of the 100 fastest cities worldwide, 69 cities were from the region, with 61 in Japan, six in South Korea, as well as Australia and Hong Kong.
24 cities in North America ranked among the top 100, including two in Canada and 22 in the United States.
Seven cities in Europe – including three in Sweden, two in Switzerland and one each in Romania and Latvia – made up the balance.
Globally, high broadband (>5 Mbps) adoption maintained at 27%.
South Korea took the top spot in high broadband adoption, with 83% of the country’s connections to Akamai > 5 Mbps.
Netherlands was second with 67%. US was twelfth (44%) while Singapore languished at 21st (32%).
