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The Net (According To Akamai)

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the do-you-see-what-i-see dept.

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."

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  1. I hate slideshows by rbrausse · · Score: 3, Informative

    all the pictures in the gizmag slideshow can be downloaded as one handy zip file.

  2. Myanmar is under influence from China... by madhatter256 · · Score: 2

    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....

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  3. Reg Required by uncledrax · · Score: 3, Informative

    The ACTUAL report (and archives), but behind a reg-wall: http://www.akamai.com/stateoftheinternet/

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  4. Speed vs. Usage by s31523 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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).

    1. Re:Speed vs. Usage by bhcompy · · Score: 2

      China didn't start with a full copper network. US did. Early adoption isn't great for this.

    2. Re:Speed vs. Usage by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 2

      It's a sad story. After successfully inventing the thing, and scoring some sweet IP blocks, we've been sticking our fingers in our ears and pretending that our telecommunications oligopoly-with-local-monopoly-characteristics is a vibrant free market, with predictably tepid results.

    3. Re:Speed vs. Usage by arth1 · · Score: 2

      Emerging economies will depend upon high speed Internet. The fact that the pioneer in almost all of this technology is now dropping to 14th and 15th is fully the fault of corporations artificially maintaining the status quo.

      And the voters who let them and get allergic reactions when anyone suggests that the government should regulate businesses.

  5. The Net? by bhcompy · · Score: 2

    Akamai are the Praetorians? Do they hide pi symbols on all of the websites they control?

    1. Re:The Net? by cashman73 · · Score: 3, Informative

      Most people here also weren't born when Admiral Ackbar muttered his famous, "It's a Trap!" line in Return of the Jedi, either, but that doesn't stop them from turning it into the Greatest Internet Meme Ever! ;-)

  6. These are neat to look at. by generic · · Score: 2

    http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/visualizing_akamai.html

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