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The Net (According To Akamai)
The Installer quotes a gizmag story saying "Akamai might not be a household name but between 15 to 30 percent of the world's Web traffic is carried on the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company's internet platform at any given time. Using data gathered by software constantly monitoring internet conditions via the company's nearly 100,000 servers deployed in 72 countries and spanning most of the networks within the internet, Akamai creates its quarterly State of the internet report. The report provides some interesting facts and figures, such as regions with the slowest and fastest connection speeds, broadband adoption rates and the origins of attack traffic."
The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) next month is planning to conduct a critical flight test of a missile that could strike fleeing terrorists or stop an imminent launch of a weapon of mass destruction. The planned flight test, a followup to a failed one conducted last year, is the second and final test of the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle-2 (HTV-2). The launch is currently scheduled for August 10, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, with a window that extends to the 17th, in case of weather or other delays.
HTV-2 has been considered as one of the possible candidates for what the Pentagon calls Prompt Global Strike, the military's plan to field a weapon that could quickly reach fleeting targets, such as a senior Al Qaeda leader. DARPA currently describes HTV-2 as a test vehicle rather than a "missile," and program manager Air Force Maj. Chris Schulz tells PM that the eventual goal is "to validate that you can fly a vehicle anywhere in the world in 60 minutes or less."
Capable of traveling at speeds of up to Mach 20, the HTV-2, which looks similar to an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), could indeed reach any target on Earth in less than hour. But unlike one of the other leading candidates for the Prompt Global Strike mission— a conventionally armed intercontinental ballistic missile—the hypersonic missile would have a very different flight profile than an ICBM. Thus, it would be less likely to be mistaken for a nuclear attack, which is a main concern stated by those who have opposed such weaponry in Congress and beyond.
But a much anticipated April 2010 test of the HTV-2 ended in failure after 9 minutes, when mission controllers lost contact with the vehicle. The flight test started off smoothly: The test vehicle was launched on a Minotaur 4-Lite from Vandenberg, and after separating from the rocket, was set to travel at hypersonic speeds to a test range on Kwajalein (on the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean). But the vehicle began to experience what Schulz called "lateral directional coupling," essentially a very slow roll, rotating around the missile's center line. A malfunction led to a self-destruct sequence that sent the missile tumbling like a football into the ocean.
all the pictures in the gizmag slideshow can be downloaded as one handy zip file.
The Gimp quotes a gizmag story saying "Anonymous Coward might not be a household name but between 15 to 30 percent of the world's first post traffic is carried on the Christmas Island company's internet platform at any given time. Using data gathered by software constantly F5'ing Slashdot's front page via the company's nearly 100,000 servers deployed in 72 countries and spanning most of the networks within the internet, Anonymous Coward creates its quarterly State of the Frosty report. The report provides some interesting facts and figures, such as first, french toast, frosty pisser, and early post metrics with the slowest and fastest connection speeds, broadband adoption rates and the origins of attack traffic."
I have The Net (According to Akamai) in my pants!
The most likely reason Myanmar is number one is most likely due to China....
With the large influx of Chinese influence in Myanmar (http://www.asiapacificms.com/articles/myanmar_influence/) this past year and before, I'm not surprised they have become number one. Maybe China is out-sourcing their hackers over to there so as to draw attention away from China and simply grow their cyber-attack force.
I wouldn't be surprised if our government knows about this....
Previewing comments are for sissies!
After reading article 'The Universe as a Hologram', I've an idea to apply this theory into telecommunication system.
Briefly, in "holographic universe" theory, reality is stored in a high dimension space. Reality is a kind of superhologram which the past, present and future all exist simultaneously. Men can only receive/project a part of that reality. Maximum men can receive/project is only 4 dimensions (3 for space, 1 for time), and it's not the entire space and time. It's just a point in space and time ocean.
If we could store data in at least 5 dimension space! The sender stores the data there and the receiver projects to the same data/reality. This is what causes the instantaneous telecommunication system.
This can change future of 'the Net'. All traffic can be transmitted instantaneously. In 5 dimension space, the 'state' of the net is all possible states, so Akamai report no longer necessary haha.
The ACTUAL report (and archives), but behind a reg-wall: http://www.akamai.com/stateoftheinternet/
----- The internet has given everyone the ability to have their voice heard equally as loud.. even if they shouldn't be
having just come off an akamai migration i can tell you that akamais web caching package is completely useless. They have problems with stupid things like session handling (akamais load balancers arent sticky like any open source package such as keepalived). They cache logged in user pages and serve them to other users when they shouldnt (expiry is broken). They do stupid shit like caching stuff even when you tell it not to cache (the servers pass thru the requests instead of level 4 routing which means you see akamais IPs instead of the originating IPs which means it breaks fail2ban). Basically they are a gigantic heap of stinking shit at $150/month. but at least its cheap right ?
I find it interesting that the U.S. is number 1 in usage (most unique IP's), but 14th in average connection speed. I would have thought the U.S. would have been a little bit better (speed-wise). China is #2 in both usage and speed. Interesting... Yet another area China will soon dominate the U.S. in (once they take the top spot in usage).
Akamai are the Praetorians? Do they hide pi symbols on all of the websites they control?
Very misleading that the cover photo from the gizmag article has nothing to do with the report, or even with the Internet. It's a photo of earth taken from space:
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=1438
I can only say nothing.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
And Akamai was why I installed Noscript. Any given heavy traffic site would ~mostly load, but be 'waiting' on akamai links to finish, thus 'slowing down' my internet usage. Yes, I'm using generalities here, but the point remains. I don't need to see every damn ad and have the counters at akamai log it. For a while there, I was damning them daily. These days? Not so much.
Thanks Noscript! And adblock! And Flashblock!
Wow. The US has the most users but speeds barely rank in the top 40 with other nations. I wonder who has the greediest bastards owning the ISPs.
Having to work for a living is the root of all evil.
Is a gizmag anything like a jizzmag?
Even streaming movies every night I can barely get above 200gb.
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Try again when you have roommates, a girlfriend or a wife and kids.
Oh that's right, we suck. We were on one, but got bumped... by Spain. Spain!
Keep in mind that this report throws wired and wireless connections together.
Imagine a modern with one 100mbit connection to the family PC and 5 mobile phones (barely 4mbit) would have an average connection speed of only 20mbit.
http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/visualizing_akamai.html
Microsoft aggravates my tourettes syndrome.
"The fastest European city is Lyse, Norway, which comes in at number 33 with an average speed of 8.1 Mbps"
Lyse is an ISP, no such city exists. Offers only fiber with a 10/10M connection as the most popular.
olec
The graphs show that only 590M ipv4 addresses are being used and that ipv6 is 0.1% of traffic
As ipv4 has 4G addresses then there is no problem with the address space as less than 15% of addresses are connecting.
Another point is that only 3% of the top 1M sites is using ipv6.
I would like to know how they figure that many of the US states have over 97% of the people connected to high speed, when I know for a fact that large portions of Arkansas and Oklahoma don't have anything higher than dial-up available(unless you count satellite*). I know that one of the GOV reports was playing games with the numbers(if zip code 12345 has high speed to one house, then the whole area has high speed). Just because a larger town in the middle of a zip code has high speed, the suburbs(or further out), which is a lot of people, still don't have anything other than dial-up.
I bet they are fudging the numbers again by saying, those people could get satellite connections. The prices, data rates, and data caps on those connections are ridiculous.
Also, just for reference, I live in South Korea and when they say it is 100mbit to the house you get those speeds. Unlike the US where they say you will get "up to 5mb/s". The new Ubuntu/Fedora/BSD etc comes out and I download the latest CD in under a minute and can upload the torrent for weeks at a few MB(yes bytes) per second and no one questions why I am using so much bandwidth. All for approximately $15 a month.
And for those people that say US is fast enough, how are we supposed to progress if we stop at "fast enough/good enough" just because you don't use IPTV or streaming HD shows and movies, doesn't mean no one should have the ability.