Q3 2011 State of the Internet Webinar

February 14, 2012

David Belson, Akamai
Richard Möller, Ericsson
Svante Bergqvist, Ericsson
 Agenda

• Security
• Observed Attack Traffic
• SSL
• Internet Connectivity
• IPv4
• IPv6
• Average & Peak Connection Speeds
• High Broadband & Broadband Adoption
• Mobile Insight (from Ericsson)
• Related Data Visualization Tools
• Q&A

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 Sources of Observed Attack Traffic

• Indonesia jumps to top of the global list in the 3rd quarter

• Italy continues to top the mobile network list
• Some overlap in countries between global & mobile lists
• Nearly half of globally observed attacks came from APAC
• Concentration of mobile observed attacks significantly lower
than in prior quarters

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 Top Ports Targeted by Observed Attacks

• Percentage of globally observed attacks targeting Port 23 grew

significantly quarter-over-quarter, especially in Egypt
• Percentage of mobile observed attacks targeting Ports 22 & 23
declined quarter-over-quarter
• Data from third-party ‘honeypot’ system - strong overlap with
Akamai in targeted ports, though percentages differed

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 Client-Side SSL Cipher Observations

• What is an “SSL Cipher”?

• Q3 trends in line with those observed in Q2
• Use of EXP-DES-CBC-SHA-40 has almost completely stopped
over the last year
• Use of AES256-SHA-1 has grown the most over the past year

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 IPv4 Addresses Seen By Akamai

• Over 615 million IPv4 addresses from 239 countries/regions

connected to Akamai in Q3 2011.
• The rate of yearly change may be slowing across the top countries
– YoY growth rates have been declining throughout 2011.
• Over the long-term, we expect measurements to show movement
of unique addresses from IPv4-based to IPv6-based.

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 IPv6 AS Adoption (as seen by Hurricane Electric)

• Rate of growth from

Q3 2010-2011
much greater than
from Q3 2009-2010
• Growth rate in Q3
2011 lower than in
Q3 2010 or 2009

• Rate of growth from Q3 2010-

2011 much greater than from
Q3 2009-2010
• Growth rate in Q3 2011 flat,
though it grew by 9% in Q3
2010, and 4% in Q3 2009

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 Global Average Connection Speeds

• Solid QoQ & strong YoY growth seen in global average speed
• Globally, among qualifying countries/regions:
• greatest growth seen in New Caledonia (+151%)
• greatest loss seen in Libya (-82%)
• 29 had average connection speeds of 1 Mbps or less
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 Regional Average Connection Speed Comparison

• Greatest range in average speeds seen across APAC countries

• Average speeds above 10 Mbps seen only in APAC, not US or EU
• YoY changes > 10% seen in most EU & APAC countries and
top U.S. states

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 Global Average Peak Connection Speeds

• Nominal quarterly and strong yearly growth seen in global

average peak connection speed (3rd consecutive Q >10 Mbps)
• Average peak speeds >10 Mbps again seen in 69 countries
• Globally, among qualifying countries/regions:
• South Korea & Hong Kong were the only two > 40 Mbps
• Guinea-Bissau’s 1.7 Mbps was the lowest
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 Regional Avg Peak Connection Speed Comparison

• QoQ growth above 10% seen in U.S. states and surveyed APAC
countries, but not in surveyed European countries
• 30 Mbps remains a key threshold – few countries/states above it,
otherwise most countries are well below it
• Clustering in the 20-30 Mbps range most significant in US & Europe
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 Global High Broadband Adoption

• Nearly 30% of all connections to Akamai in Q3 2011 were at speeds

above 5 Mbps – nominal quarterly & solid yearly growth
• China jumped to 1.0% adoption (+78% QoQ), India jumped to
0.6% adoption (+46% QoQ)
• Of the 62 countries/regions that qualified for inclusion, 26 saw
adoption rates more than double YoY
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 Regional High Broadband Adoption Comparison

• Very wide range of adoption rates seen in both Europe & APAC
• High broadband adoption >70% only seen in South Korea and a
few U.S. states – large gap below that threshold
• YoY growth of 100% or more seen in several European & APAC
countries, but not in U.S. states
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 Global Broadband Adoption

• Approximately two-thirds of all connections to Akamai in Q3 2011

were at speeds above 2 Mbps - nominal quarterly & yearly growth
• European countries continue to dominate the Top 10
• Globally, among qualifying countries/regions:
• Venezuela had the lowest level of broadband adoption (2.0%)
• 18 countries had broadband adoption of 90% or more
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 Regional Broadband Adoption Comparison

• Fewer Asia Pacific countries with broadband adoption > 90% as

compared to U.S. states or European countries
• Minimal QoQ change across top U.S. states & European countries
• Among qualifying countries, the Philippines was the only one with
broadband adoption below 10%
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 Global Voice & Data Traffic
In Cellular Networks

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 Traffic Usage & Mix Connected To Data Plans

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 www.akamai.com/stateoftheinternet

Map-based Data Visualization

Graph-based Data Visualization

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 Akamai Global Network View iPad Application

• Mobile version of the “spinning

globe” featured in the NOCC
• Provides insight into traffic on
the Akamai platform, server
deployment, client footprint,
observed attacks
• Zoomable interface down to
city-level granularity
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 For More Information…

• www.akamai.com/stateoftheinternet

• stateoftheinternet@akamai.com

• twitter.com/akamai_soti
• www.facebook.com/AkamaiSotI

• Ericsson Traffic & Market Data Report

• http://www.ericsson.com/news/1561267
• http://hugin.info/1061/R/1561267/483187.pdf

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