India has the lowest broadband speeds in Asia Pacific with average connection speed of 1.4Mbps and also the lowest penetration of high speed broadband with only 0.3% having speeds over 10Mbps, according to ‘State of the Internet’ report by the content delivery network Akamai Technologies for Q3 2013. Attacks Attack traffic originating from India reduced to 1.9% from 2% a year ago. Akamai notes that attack traffic originating from 185 unique countries were spotted in the quarter, up by 10 from the previous quarter. Indonesia dropped back to the second-place slot, responsible for 20% of observed attacks — just over half of the volume seen in the prior quarter. China, returned to being the source of largest percentage (35%) of observed attacks. United States remained well behind in third place, originating 11% of observed attacks, up from just under 7% in the prior quarter. IPV4 addresses India was 10th among countries involved in the report with 18.37 million addresses, up 4.9% Quarter-on-Quarter(QoQ)and 32% Year-on-Year (YoY). Apart from India, Brazil, China, and the UK saw aggressive growth rates of more than 10% YoY. On a global basis, nearly 77% of countries/regions around the world had higher unique IPv4 address counts year-over-year. The small Indian Ocean island of Réunion had the largest rate of growth, increasing 925% over the last year. Globally, the number of IPV4 addresses increased 1.1% QoQ and by 11% YoY. Global High Broadband Connectivity Akamai classifies connections with speeds over 10Mbps as high speed broadband and India remained the country with the lowest level of…
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