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AMERICAS HIGHLIGHTS (Q 2 2015)

5.1

INTERNET & BROADBAND

ADOPTION

Q2 2015
Avg. Mbps

Q2 2015
Peak Mbps

United States

11.7

50.4

Canada

11.2

48.1

Uruguay

5.9

47.7

Chile

5.6

37.0

Mexico

5.5

27.3

Argentina

4.7

25.6

Peru

4.7

28.5

Colombia

4.5

27.8

Ecuador

4.0

24.9

Brazil

3.6

27.0

Panama

3.3

17.6

Costa Rica

3.2

17.3

Bolivia

1.9

16.8

Venezuela

1.6

13.9

Paraguay

1.5

15.0

Country/Region

Mbps
Global Average
Connection Speed

Across the second quarter of 2015 Akamai observed

moderate, positive connectivity growth. From a global
perspective, the average connection speed increased
Mbps
3.5% quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) and 17% year-overGlobal Average Peak
year (YoY) to 5.1 Mbps, while the global average peak
Connection Speed
connection speed increased 12% QoQ and 26% YoY
to 32.5 Mbps. In the Americas region, the United States had the highest average
connection speed at 11.7 Mbps, while Paraguay had the lowest at 1.5 Mbps. The
United States also had the highest peak connection speed at 50.4 Mbps, while
Venezuela had the lowest at 13.9 Mbps.

32.5

IPv6 ADOPTION
European countries continued to dominate IPv6 adoption, taking 8 of the top 10 spots. As with the previous quarter, the only two non-European
countries among the top 10 were the United States and Peru, both of which saw double-digit quarterly improvements. These two countries ended
the quarter with 19% and 17% adoption rates, respectively.

38%

23%

17%

19%

17%

14%

13%

8.7%

10%

8.2%
Q2 2015
IPv6
Traffic (%)

Belgium

Switzerland

United States

Luxembourg

Germany

Peru

Czech Republic

Greece

Portugal

Estonia

Cable and wireless/mobile providers continued to drive the largest volumes of IPv6 requests, as many are leading the way for IPv6 adoption in their respective
countries. Among this group of providers, Belgiums Telenet joined Verizon Wireless and Brutele in the second quarter in seeing more than half of their
requests to Akamai made of IPv6. Eleven countries in total, up from nine in the first quarter, had at least 25% of their requests to Akamai made over IPv6.
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71%

67%

Q2 2015 IPv6 Traffic %

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