Akamai Technologies, Inc., a leader in powering rich media, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, today announced the release of the first quarter 2009 edition of its quarterly State of the Internet report.
Leveraging information gathered from its network and published reports, Akamai’s quarterly report provides insight into key Internet statistics such as origin of attack traffic, network and Web site outages and Internet connectivity levels across the globe.
During the first quarter of 2009, Akamai observed attack traffic originating from 68 unique countries around the world. The United States and China were the two largest attack traffic sources, accounting for nearly 50 per cent of observed traffic in total. The top 10 ports saw approximately 90 per cent of the observed attack traffic, with more two-thirds of the traffic likely related to the Conficker worm.
India was ranked 11 globally in terms of attack traffic, with 1.60 per cent of observed attack traffic. In comparison, China was ranked No. 1 with 27.59 per cent of observed attack traffic followed by the United States ranked No. 2 with 22.15 per cent of observed attack traffic.
Commenting on the report, Sanjay Singh, managing director, Akamai, said, “We continue to see strong trends that suggest an ever-improving Internet penetration figures in India. For example, this quarter we reported the number of unique IPs in India has gone up 52 per cent year over year and the average connections speed was at 898 Kbps. The average connection speed will be an interesting number to track in the coming quarters as it will give us a clear indication of the growing broadband adoption rates in the country.”
