Highlights and trends from the report for India follow:

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 per cent of observed attack traffic in total followed by South Korea with 6.83 per cent and India at 3.93 per cent. During the quarter, Akamai observed attack traffic targeted at more than 4,100 unique ports, with 10 ports experiencing roughly 90 per cent 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.  For the fifth consecutive quarter, the United States and China continued to account for nearly 40 per cent of the observed IP addresses.  The Top 10 countries continued to remain the same quarter-over-quarter.

Global Average Connection Speeds

While some countries saw average connection speeds decline on a quarter-over-quarter basis, year over year data points to an overall increase in connection speeds.  Globally, the average connection speed was 1.5 Mbps and South Korea maintained the highest average connection speed at 11.3 Mbps.

Also during the second quarter, 125 countries had average connection speeds below 1 Mbps, up slightly from 120 countries in the prior quarter.  Fourteen countries had average connection speeds below 100 Kbps, and the lowest average speed was seen in Eritrea, at 42 Kbps.  It is worth noting that many of these are small countries that have comparatively few connections to Akamai, and that many of them saw significant speed declines quarter-over-quarter.

Fastest International Countries

In the second quarter of 2009, 19 per cent of the Internet connections around the world were at speeds greater than 5 Mbps.  This represents a 5 per cent decline from the prior quarter (bringing it back to the level seen in the fourth quarter of 2008), and only a 0.2 per cent year-over-year increase.
South Korea, once again, had the largest percentage of connections to Akamai at speeds above 5 Mbps, with 69 per cent high broadband penetration. 

Akamai's unique level of visibility into the connection speeds of systems issuing requests to the Akamai network has created a one-of-a-kind view into broadband adoption around the globe.  Leveraging that data, Akamai's quarterly State of the Internet report identifies both the countries and U.S. states with the fastest and slowest average connection speeds exhibited by IP addresses originating from those respective geographies.