ak amai s [sta te of t he i nt er net]

ASIA PACIFIC HIGHLIGHTS (Q 2 2015)

5.1

INTERNET & BROADBAND

ADOPTION

Q2 2015
Avg. Mbps

Q2 2015
Peak Mbps

South Korea

23.1

83.3

Hong Kong

17.0

94.8

Japan

16.4

75.1

Singapore

12.7

108.3

Taiwan

10.6

74.5

Thailand

8.6

51.5

New Zealand

8.4

38.1

Australia

7.8

40.3

Sri Lanka

5.3

31.4

Malaysia

5.0

36.5

China

3.4

18.4

Vietnam

3.3

22.7

Philippines

3.1

25.6

Indonesia

2.4

21.0

India

2.4

18.7

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 Asia-Pacific region, South Korea had the highest average connection
speed at 23.1 Mbps, while India had the lowest at 2.4 Mbps. Singapore had the highest
average peak connection speed at 108.3, while China had the lowest at 18.4 Mbps.

32.5

IPv6 ADOPTION
Throughout the second quarter of 2015, no countries in the Asia-Pacific region were able to crack the top 10. Instead, European countries continued
to dominate IPv6 adoption, taking 8 of the top 10 spots. Across the board, increases in IPv6 traffic were stronger than the previous quarter.

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23%

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17%

14%

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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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Q2 2015 IPv6 Traffic %

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