Akamai issues new Internet report
The president has the State of the Union address, and now Akamai Technologies Inc. has its "State of the Internet Report."
Akamai, a Cambridge company that provides services designed to accelerate and improve the delivery of content and applications over the Internet, today announced the release of its inaugural "State of the Internet Report," with plans to issue new reports quarterly.
Beginning with the January to March 2008 time period, Akamai said its reports will include data on the origins of attack traffic, network outages, and de-peering events, as well as a look at broadband connectivity by geography; Akamai will also use the reports to document trends seen in this data over time.
So what did Akamai document in its first report?
During the first quarter, Akamai said it observed attack traffic originating from 125 unique countries around the world. China and the United States were the two largest attack traffic sources, accounting for some 30 percent of this traffic in total. Akamai said it observed attack traffic targeted at 23 unique network ports, and many of the ports that saw the highest levels of attack traffic were targeted by worms, viruses, and bots that spread across the Internet several years ago.
The inaugural report is available for download by clicking here.
(By Chris Reidy, Globe staff)
