The Big Picture
The State of the
Internet In 2015
Akamai Technologies’ Q2 2015 State of the Internet Report highlights some interesting current
facts about the internet.
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kamai’s State of the Internet reports are
well-renowned for their ability to communicate
an informed view into online connectivity, cyber
security trends and metrics, including Internet
connection speeds, broadband adoption, mobile
usage, outages, cyber attacks and web security threats.
The latest report available at the time of publication was
Q2 2015.
Here are some of the highlights:
- Global average connection speed increased 17% yearover-year; South Korea leads at 23.1 Mbps.
- Global average peak connection speed reached 32.5
Mbps; up 26% year-over-year.
- Gabon, Cameroon, Nepal and Iraq experienced significant Internet disruptions.
- Mobile data traffic grew around 15% between the Q1 and
Q2, and increased 55% year over year between the Q2
2014 and Q2 2015, based on traffic data collected
by Ericsson.
Digging a little deeper…
- The State of the Internet reports on 25 Mbps broadband
connectivity, reflecting the U.S. Federal Communications
Commission’s (FCC) adoption of 25 Mbps as the new
benchmark broadband speed.
- Globally, 4.9% of unique IP addresses connected to Akamai at average speeds of at least 25 Mbps, a 7.5% increase
over the previous quarter.
- In the United States, five states had 10% or more of
unique IP addresses connect to Akamai at average speeds
of at least 25 Mbps.
- Japan (16.4 Mbps) saw the largest quarterly gain in average speed at 7.8%.The global average connection speed
increased 3.5% to 5.1 Mbp
- Global average peak connection speeds increased 12%
to 32.5 Mbps. Average peak connection speeds increased
100% in Egypt (23.4 Mbps).
- 27% of unique IP addresses globally connected to Akamai at average speeds above 10 Mbps, an increase
of 2.1%.
- Among the top 10 countries, Singapore rose the most
(8.4%) to achieve 50% adoption of 10 Mbps or higher.
- Among all countries, Kazakhstan rose the most (118%) to
reach 16% adoption of 10 Mbps or higher.
- Reversing the trend seen in the first quarter, the number
of unique IPv4 addresses worldwide connecting to Akamai
dropped by about 8.6 million in Q2.
- Six of the top 10 countries saw a quarterly decline in
unique IPv4 address.
- Roughly half of the countries and regions had an increase
in unique IPv4 address counts, with 34 growing 10%
or more.
- European countries continued to dominate the 10 countries and regions with the largest percentage of content
requests made to Akamai over IPv6.
- The only two non-European counties among the top 10
were the U.S. and Peru. Both of which had significant double-digit quarterly improvements to adoption rates of 19%
and 17%, respectively.
Source:
https://www.stateoftheinternet.com/resources-connectivity-2015-q2-state-of-the-internet-report.html
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