Akamai releases "state of the internet" report with unique insights on India

Bangalore, Sept 11 (ANI/Business Wire India): Akamai Technologies, Inc. the leader in powering rich media, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, today announced the release of the second edition of its quarterly "state of the internet" report available for download at www.akamai.com/stateoftheinternet.

Akamai's quarterly report provides insight into key Internet statistics such as origin of attack traffic, network outages and broadband connectivity levels across the globe.

During the months of April, May, and June of 2008, over 346 million unique IP addresses connected to the Akamai global server network - five percent more than during the first three months of the year.

Extrapolating data gathered across Akamai's network, the "State of the Internet" report analyzes the origins of attack traffic, network outages and de-peering events, as well as provides a look at broadband connectivity by geography. As the Company's second published edition, the report also now provides a quarter-over-quarter view into trends.

Insights on India:

-- Akamai's global network saw 2.1 million unique IPs from India, and India ranked 14th in terms of unique IPs, a growth of 4.5 percent over last quarter

-- India had 0.002 IPs per capita - translating to 2 unique IP addresses per 1000 people

-- India ranked 15th in terms of attack traffic origination in Q2, contributing 1 percent to observed global attack traffic - last quarter India was ranked at 10th

-- The percentage of broadband connections from India with speeds above five Mbps (high broadband) and 2 Mps (broadband) were 0.6 per cent and 4.6 per cent respectively

-- India's high broadband IP per capita was .00001 (1 IP with speeds above 5 Mbps per 100,000 people)

-- The percentage of connections with speeds less than 256 Kbps from India was 26 percent

Commenting on the report, 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. Akamai is in a unique position to be able to closely monitor the trends in India regarding Internet consumption, and to share those findings in this 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.

From a protocol perspective, the report highlights that the second quarter of 2008 saw increased DNS resolution capacity, steps towards additional generic top-level domains, and a key IPv6 deadline for the U.S. federal government.

In addition, 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.

--ANI