Akamai releases State of the Internet report

BANGALORE,INDIA: Akamai Technologies India, an online provider in enterprise applications, today announced the release of the second edition of its quarterly ‘State of the Internet’ report.

The report provides an insight into key Internet statistics such as origin of attack traffic, network outages and broadband connectivity levels across the globe and also provides an outlook at broadband connectivity by geography, said a press release.

The report stated that India ranked 14th in terms of unique IPs with a number of 2.1 million unique IPs and posted the growth of 4.5 percent over the last quarter.

It said that India ranked 15th in terms of attack traffic origination in Q2, contributing 1 percent to observed global attack traffic.

The percentage of broadband connections from India with speeds above 5 Mbps (high broadband) and 2 Mps (broadband) were 0.6 per cent and 4.6 per cent respectively, said the release.

Sanjay Singh, vice president of Global Services and Support, Akamai said, “Our global network of 36,000 servers across 70 countries enables us to offer unique insight into how the Internet is being leveraged around the world.”

“While the report notes that India has just 2 unique IPs per 1,000 people on average, we believe India’s Internet penetration will significantly increase in the coming years, thanks in part to the economic boom and increasing IT adoption,” he added.

He added that the company is in a unique position to monitor the trends in India regarding Internet consumption, and to share the findings in the quarterly report.

Findings from the report also include a closer look at the trend of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks to continue to target exploits that were identified years ago, suggesting there is still a significant population of insufficiently patched systems connected to the Internet, said a release.