Akamai – State of The Internet Report Q2 2008
Akamai has more than 36,000 servers across 70 countries serving content for various customers. This gives Akamai a bird’s eye view into systemic problems on the internet such as network outages, connectivity issues as well as end-user connectivity. Every quarter Akamai releases “State of the Internet” report which captures some of these trends. Here are some highlights from the report for Q2 2008.
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Interesting Insights on India:
- Network connectivity speeds are catching up in India as the number of connections below 256Kbps is just 26%. The bad day of dialup are slowly going away.
- Broadband penetration is very miniscule though with 0.6% of users connecting with 5Mbps or more and 4.6% of users with 2Mbps or more.
- The relative amount of attack traffic originating in India has dropped with ranking falling to 15th from 10th in last quarter.
Interesting Insights on Security:
- There seem to be a lot of unpatched systems connected to the Internet with ports scanned by Sasser, Slammer and Sapphire worms being repeatedly targeted.
- The top 3 countries (Japan, US and China) contribute more than 60% of all attack traffic. Not surprisingly these countries are also the most connected.
- SQL Injection attacks are on the rise.
More detailed information is available in the downloadable PDF