Akamai Technologies, the global player in content delivery network (CDN) services, has released its Second Quarter, 2016 State of the Internet Report.
Based on data gathered from the Akamai Intelligent Platform, the report provides insight into key global statistics such as connection speeds, broadband adoption metrics, notable Internet disruptions, IPv4 exhaustion and IPv6 implementation.
“The continued increase in average connection speeds is a reassuring trend as online retailers prepare for the busy holiday shopping season,” said David Belson, Editor of Akamai’s State of the Internet Report. “However, recent Internet disruptions caused by everything from government-ordered blackouts to a lone monkey sparking a widespread outage are reminders of the many factors that can affect access to and use of the Internet that is so often taken for granted.”
Highlights from Akamai’s Second Quarter, 2016 State of the Internet Report include:
Global average connection speeds
Global average connection speed is 6.1 Mbps, a 14% increase year over year.
Global average peak connection speed increased 3.7% to 36 Mbps quarter on quarter in the second quarter, rising 2.5% year over year.
The global 10 Mbps broadband adoption rate grew 0.7% quarter over quarter, but 15 Mbps and 25 Mbps broadband adoption rates fell 0.8% and 2.1%, respectively.
IPv4 and IPv6
The number of unique IPv4 addresses connecting to the Akamai Intelligent Platform was just over 800 million, which is 1% less than Q116.
In Asia Pacific:
· All 15 surveyed countries/regions in the Asia Pacific region showed year-over-year growth in observed average connection speeds in the second quarter, just as in the first.
· The region continued to lead the world in average peak connection speeds in the second quarter, with the top three global leaders all found in the region.
The second quarter saw gains across 11 of the 15 surveyed Asia Pacific countries/regions, ranging from 0.7% in New Zealand to 29% in Indonesia. Four countries enjoyed double-digit quarterly gains, compared with eleven in the first quarter.
Among the countries/regions seeing declines, South Korea had the largest drop, while Hong Kong, with its 1.9% decrease, had the smallest.
· Fourteen of the 15 surveyed Asia Pacific countries/regions had average by connection speeds above the 4 Mbps broadband threshold in the second quarter, up from 13 in the first.
Seven of these exceeded the 10 Mbps threshold, the same as in the first quarter.
· South Korea was again the top country/region in the world for the average connection speed metric, despite a 7.2% quarter-over-quarter drop in average connection speeds that narrowed the gap between it and lowest-ranked India from 26 Mbps to 23 Mbps.
Interested?
Data and graphics from the Second Quarter, 2016 State of the Internet Report can be found on the Akamai State of the Internet site and through the Akamai State of the Internet app for iOS and Android devices, which includes richer datasets for comparison views, ability to plot trends across time and countries, and easy social sharing of user-generated charts. State of the Internet Report-related discussions are also taking place on the Akamai Community.
*Each quarter, Akamai publishes a State of the Internet – Connectivity report. This report includes data gathered from across the Akamai Intelligent Platform about attack traffic, broadband adoption, mobile connectivity and other relevant topics concerning the Internet and its usage, as well as trends seen in this data over time. For additional information on the metrics in the report and how they are analysed, visit http://akamai.me/sotimetrics. To learn more and to access the archive of past reports, visit https://www.akamai.com/us/en/our-thinking/state-of-the-internet-report/global-state-of-the-internet-connectivity-reports.jsp.
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Based on data gathered from the Akamai Intelligent Platform, the report provides insight into key global statistics such as connection speeds, broadband adoption metrics, notable Internet disruptions, IPv4 exhaustion and IPv6 implementation.
“The continued increase in average connection speeds is a reassuring trend as online retailers prepare for the busy holiday shopping season,” said David Belson, Editor of Akamai’s State of the Internet Report. “However, recent Internet disruptions caused by everything from government-ordered blackouts to a lone monkey sparking a widespread outage are reminders of the many factors that can affect access to and use of the Internet that is so often taken for granted.”
Highlights from Akamai’s Second Quarter, 2016 State of the Internet Report include:
Global average connection speeds
Global average connection speed is 6.1 Mbps, a 14% increase year over year.
Global average peak connection speed increased 3.7% to 36 Mbps quarter on quarter in the second quarter, rising 2.5% year over year.
The global 10 Mbps broadband adoption rate grew 0.7% quarter over quarter, but 15 Mbps and 25 Mbps broadband adoption rates fell 0.8% and 2.1%, respectively.
IPv4 and IPv6
The number of unique IPv4 addresses connecting to the Akamai Intelligent Platform was just over 800 million, which is 1% less than Q116.
In Asia Pacific:
· All 15 surveyed countries/regions in the Asia Pacific region showed year-over-year growth in observed average connection speeds in the second quarter, just as in the first.
· The region continued to lead the world in average peak connection speeds in the second quarter, with the top three global leaders all found in the region.
The second quarter saw gains across 11 of the 15 surveyed Asia Pacific countries/regions, ranging from 0.7% in New Zealand to 29% in Indonesia. Four countries enjoyed double-digit quarterly gains, compared with eleven in the first quarter.
Among the countries/regions seeing declines, South Korea had the largest drop, while Hong Kong, with its 1.9% decrease, had the smallest.
· Fourteen of the 15 surveyed Asia Pacific countries/regions had average by connection speeds above the 4 Mbps broadband threshold in the second quarter, up from 13 in the first.
Seven of these exceeded the 10 Mbps threshold, the same as in the first quarter.
· South Korea was again the top country/region in the world for the average connection speed metric, despite a 7.2% quarter-over-quarter drop in average connection speeds that narrowed the gap between it and lowest-ranked India from 26 Mbps to 23 Mbps.
Interested?
Data and graphics from the Second Quarter, 2016 State of the Internet Report can be found on the Akamai State of the Internet site and through the Akamai State of the Internet app for iOS and Android devices, which includes richer datasets for comparison views, ability to plot trends across time and countries, and easy social sharing of user-generated charts. State of the Internet Report-related discussions are also taking place on the Akamai Community.
*Each quarter, Akamai publishes a State of the Internet – Connectivity report. This report includes data gathered from across the Akamai Intelligent Platform about attack traffic, broadband adoption, mobile connectivity and other relevant topics concerning the Internet and its usage, as well as trends seen in this data over time. For additional information on the metrics in the report and how they are analysed, visit http://akamai.me/sotimetrics. To learn more and to access the archive of past reports, visit https://www.akamai.com/us/en/our-thinking/state-of-the-internet-report/global-state-of-the-internet-connectivity-reports.jsp.
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