Each quarter, the globally distributed Intelligent Platform allows Akamai to gather massive amounts of data on many metrics, including connection speeds, attack traffic, network connectivity/availability issues, and IPv6 adoption progress, as well as traffic patterns across leading Web properties and digital media providers.
Each quarter,
the globally distributed Intelligent Platform allows Akamai to gather massive
amounts of data on many metrics, including
connection
speeds, attack traffic, network connectivity/availability
issues, and IPv6
adoption progress, as well as traffic patterns across
leading Web
properties and digital media providers.
These are the
highlights on the Q2 2014 State of the Internet Report:
Security:
-Akamai observed
attack traffic originating from source ip addresses in 161 unique
countries/regions.
-China remained
in the top slot, growing to 43% of observed attack traffic. Indonesia saw a
significant increase in observed attack traffic,
more than doubling to 15%,
while the United States increased nominally to 13%.
-Attack volume
targeting Port 80 nearly doubled from the first quarter
to 15%, placing
it as the most targeted port in the second quarter
-During the
second quarter, Akamai customers reported being targeted by 270 DDoS attacks,
5% fewer than in the prior quarter, and 15% fewer than in the second quarter of
2013.
-Enterprise and
Commerce customers together accounted for nearly
60% of the
reported attacks during the quarter
Internet and broadband adoption:
Looking at
connection speeds, the global average connection speed grew 21% to 4.6 Mbps and
the global average peak connection speed grew 20%, reaching 25.4 Mbps
- South Korea
continued to have the highest average connection speed at 24.6 Mbps but Hong
Kong had the highest average peak connection speed at 73.9 Mbps
Mobile connectivity
-In the second
quarter of 2014, average mobile connection speeds (aggregated at a country
level) ranged from a high of 15.2 Mbps in South Korea down to a low of 0.9 Mbps
in Vietnam.
-Based on traffic
data collected by Ericsson, the volume of mobile data traffic grew
approximately 10% between the first and second quarters of 2014.
How likely are
you to be targeted by repeated DDoS
attacks?
In the
second quarter, approximately one in six (18%) customers reported being
targeted by more than one DDoS attack, with one customer reporting seven such
attacks during
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