CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 24, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
- Global average connection speed increased 10% to 5.0 Mbps;
South Korea leads at 23.6
Mbps
- United Kingdom had the
fastest average mobile connection speed at 20.4 Mbps, a 28%
quarterly increase
- 1.2% quarterly increase in unique IPv4 addresses to more
than 812 million
Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the global leader in
content delivery network (CDN) services, today released its
First Quarter, 2015 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 across fixed and mobile networks, and
IPv4 exhaustion and IPv6 implementation.
Beginning this quarter, security-related content that was
previously included in the State of the Internet Report,
including data on attack traffic seen across the Akamai platform
and insights into high-profile security vulnerabilities and
attacks, is now published in a separate State of the
Internet / Security Report.
Data and graphics from the First Quarter, 2015 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. State of the Internet
Report-related discussions are also taking place on the Akamai
Community.
"We saw generally positive results across all of the
key metrics during the first quarter of 2015," said David Belson, editor of the report. "The
increase in global broadband speeds demonstrates an ongoing
commitment to higher standards. While connectivity will continue to
differ across many regions, we see the highest broadband speeds in
countries/regions with high population densities and strong
government backing or support, as well as those that foster
competition among Internet providers."
Highlights from Akamai's First Quarter, 2015 State of the
Internet Report:
Global Average Connection Speeds and Global Broadband
Connectivity
In the first quarter of 2015, the global
average connection speed for the first time reached 5 Mbps, a 10%
increase over the previous quarter. Quarterly global average
connection speeds among the top 10 countries all remained well
above 10 Mbps, and six of the 10 had average speeds above 15 Mbps,
as Ireland (17.4 Mbps),
Sweden (15.8 Mbps) and
the Netherlands (15.3 Mbps) joined
South Korea (23.6 Mbps),
Hong Kong (16.7 Mbps) and
Japan (15.2 Mbps) in exceeding
this benchmark in the first quarter. Globally, a total of 131
qualifying countries/regions saw average connection speeds increase
in the first quarter, with growth rates ranging from 128% in
Fiji (6.2 Mbps) to a modest 0.4%
in Japan (15.2 Mbps).
Year-over-year changes were consistently positive among the top 10,
with Ireland (17.4 Mbps),
Norway (14.1 Mbps) and
Sweden (15.8 Mbps) all posting
yearly increases of more than 30%.
In the first quarter, global average peak connection speeds
increased 8.2% to 29.1 Mbps. Speeds increased across the board
among countries/regions in the top 10, led by Kuwait (76.5 Mbps) and Mongolia (68.9 Mbps) with impressive gains of
126% and 72%, respectively. Singapore (98.5 Mbps) rose 17% to overtake
Hong Kong as the country/region
with the highest average peak connection speed. All of the top 10
countries/regions saw average peak speeds greater than 65 Mbps. On
a global basis, 124 out of 144 qualifying countries/regions
experienced average peak connection speed increases from the fourth
quarter, with growth ranging from 0.2% in Puerto Rico (41.2 Mbps) to 126% in
Kuwait (76.5 Mbps). Average peak
connection speeds in 136 countries/regions increased from the first
quarter of 2014.
For the first time, the State of the Internet is
reporting on the percentage of IP addresses connecting to Akamai at
average speeds of above 25 Mbps, the new benchmark broadband speed
adopted by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission in
January 2015. Globally, 4.6% of
unique IP addresses connected to Akamai at average connection
speeds of at least 25 Mbps, a 12% increase over the previous
quarter. Similar to the 10 Mbps and 15 Mbps metrics, South Korea led the world in 25 Mbps broadband
adoption, with a 31% adoption rate. Its rate was nearly double that
of second-place Hong Kong (17%
adoption). Year-over-year, the global 25 Mbps adoption rate grew
20%, and all of the top 10 countries/regions posted gains except
South Korea, which saw a 5.9%
decline compared with the first quarter of 2014. In the United States, five states had 10% or more
of unique IP addresses connect to Akamai at average speeds of at
least 25 Mbps.
The global percentage of unique IP addresses connecting to
Akamai that met the 4 Mbps broadband speed threshold increased 6.6%
to 63%, revealing strength across the board in contrast to the
previous quarter's slight decline in this metric. Globally, 107
countries/regions qualified for inclusion for this metric, and 100
of them saw quarterly growth in 4 Mbps broadband adoption rates, up
from 76 in the previous quarter. Year-over-year growth rates ranged
from 0.1% in Jamaica (43%
adoption) to 1,402% in Algeria
(3.3% adoption).
In the first quarter of 2015, 26% of unique IP addresses
globally connected to Akamai at average speeds above 10 Mbps, an
11% quarterly increase that is significantly greater than the
previous quarter's modest 2.9% gain. Seven of the top 10
countries/regions saw quarter-over-quarter increases, ranging from
3.9% in Switzerland (59% adoption)
to 21% in Bulgaria (55% adoption).
Among the 68 qualifying countries/regions, 60 saw
quarter-over-quarter increases. In terms of year-over-year changes,
there was a 27% increase globally in the percentage of unique IP
addresses connecting to Akamai at average speeds above 10 Mbps.
Fourteen percent of unique IP addresses globally connected to
Akamai at average connection speeds of 15 Mbps or above, up from
12% in the fourth quarter. Despite declining for the second quarter
in a row, South Korea remained the
clear leader in 15 Mbps broadband adoption with a 58% adoption rate
after a 4.9% quarterly decrease. Overall, quarterly gains were seen
in 46 qualifying regions/countries, compared with only 35 in the
previous quarter. Year-over-year, the global 15 Mbps adoption rate
grew 29% with strong gains among all of the top 10, except in
South Korea, which had a 4.2%
decline compared with the first quarter of 2014.
IPv4 and IPv6
Continuing with the trend seen in the
fourth quarter of 2014, the number of unique IPv4 addresses
worldwide connecting to Akamai grew by nearly 10 million in the
first quarter. Among the top 10 countries in the first quarter, the
United Kingdom and Japan showed the largest quarterly gains at
5.7% and 5.1%, respectively. Brazil saw the largest year-over-year increase
at 17%. Six other countries on the list saw yearly increases,
ranging from Japan's 11% to
Russia's 2.5%. On a global basis,
two-thirds of countries/regions around the world had higher unique
IPv4 address counts year-over-year.
European countries continued to dominate the 10
countries/regions with the largest percentage of content requests
made to Akamai over IPv6 in the first quarter of 2015. Similar to
last quarter, Belgium maintained
its clear lead, with one-third of content requests being made over
IPv6, more than double the percentage of second-place Germany. As with the previous quarter, the
only two non-European countries among the top 10 were the U.S. and
Peru, both of which saw
double-digit quarterly improvements and ended the quarter with 14%
and 13% adoption rates, respectively. Verizon Wireless and Brutele
saw more than half of their requests to Akamai made over IPv6, and
both showed increases from the previous quarter.
Mobile Connectivity
In the First Quarter, 2015
State of the Internet Report, 62 countries/regions qualified
for inclusion in the mobile section. The United Kingdom had the fastest average
connection speed at 20.4 Mbps, a 28% increase from the previous
quarter. Denmark was again in
second place, at 10 Mbps. Vietnam
had the lowest average connection speed, at 1.3 Mbps.
Average peak mobile connection speeds again spanned an extremely
broad range in the first quarter, from 149.3 Mbps in Australia down to 8.2 Mbps in Indonesia. A total of four countries –
Australia (149.3 Mbps),
Japan (126 Mbps), Singapore (116.4 Mbps) and Thailand (105.4 Mbps) – posted average peak
speeds above 100 Mbps, up from two countries in the fourth quarter.
Perhaps due in part to rollouts of higher speed mobile technologies
like LTE-A, the successor of 4G LTE, a total of 15 countries had
average peak speeds above 50 Mbps, a large increase from just four
in the previous quarter.
Denmark led the way in the
percentage of unique IP addresses connecting to Akamai from mobile
network providers within the qualifying countries/regions at
average speeds of over 4 Mbps with a 98% adoption rate. It was
followed closely by Sweden (97%
adoption), Venezuela (97%
adoption), Australia (96%
adoption) and the United Kingdom
(95% adoption). Vietnam,
Iran, Kazakhstan, and Bolivia all had rates below 1%.
State of the Internet Report Editor David Belson will respond to "Ask the Expert"
questions submitted via the Akamai Community Wednesday, June 24, through Friday, June 26.
About the Akamai State of the Internet Report
Each
quarter, Akamai publishes a "State of the Internet" 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 analyzed, please visit http://akamai.me/sotimetrics. To learn
more and to access the archive of past reports, please visit
http://www.stateoftheinternet.com/soti-reports. To download the
figures from the First Quarter, 2015 State of the Internet
Report, please visit:
http://wwwns.akamai.com/soti/soti_q115_figures.zip.
About Akamai
As the global leader in Content Delivery
Network (CDN) services, Akamai makes the Internet fast, reliable
and secure for its customers. The company's advanced web
performance, mobile performance, cloud security and media delivery
solutions are revolutionizing how businesses optimize consumer,
enterprise and entertainment experiences for any device, anywhere.
To learn how Akamai solutions and its team of Internet experts are
helping businesses move faster forward, please visit
www.akamai.com or blogs.akamai.com, and follow @Akamai on
Twitter.
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