Each quarter, Akamai publishes a “State of the Internet” report. This report includesdata gathered from across Akamai’s global server network about attack trafc andbroadband adoption, as well as trends seen in this data over time. It also aggregatespublicly available news and information about notable events seen throughout thequarter, including Denial of Service attacks, Web site hacks, and network events,including outages and new connections. (However, due to time constraints, thisaggregated information has not been included within this quarter’s published report.)During the third quarter of 2009, Akamai observed attack trafc originating from207 unique countries around the world. In a shift from prior quarters, Russia and Brazilunseated the United States and China as the two largest attack trafc sources, accountingfor nearly 22% of observed trafc in total, half as much as was seen from China and theUnited States in the second quarter. Akamai observed attack trafc targeted at more than3,800 unique ports, with the top 10 ports once again seeing nearly 95% of the observedattack trafc, up from 90% in the second quarter. (The additional concentration in thethird quarter was again likely related to trafc associated with the Concker worm andits variants.)Akamai observed a four-and-a-half percent increase (from the second quarter of 2009)globally in the number of unique IP addresses connecting to Akamai’s network. Froma global connection speed perspective, South Korea continued to have the highest levelof “high broadband” (>5 Mbps) connectivity and also maintained the highest averageconnection speed, at nearly 15 Mbps. In the United States, Delaware moved into the topposition, with 63% of connections to Akamai occurring at 5 Mbps or greater. Delawarealso maintained the highest average connection speed in the United States, at 7.2 Mbps.Finally, average measured connection speeds among three leading mobile carriers in theUnited States were in the 700-750 Kbps range for the third quarter. Future
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reports will include additional metrics & measurements across additional carriers.
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