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India ranks 17 globally in unique IP addresses
By siliconindia
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Wednesday, 03 August 2011, 00:26 IST
Bangalore: India ranks 17 globally in terms of unique IP addresses, revealed a survey conducted by Akamai Technologies. It further stated that India ranked 7 in terms of attack traffic origination, and 109 in terms of connectivity speed, according to the first quarter of 2011.
The report is a detailed data assembled from the Akamai Internet platform, which convey's between 15-30 percent of the world's web traffic at any point of time, and highlights the challenges and opportunities for Internet absorption and broadband acceptance in India.
The report also highlighted that the global average connection speed increased by 23 percent year on year to 2.1 Mbps, while India's average connection speed increased by only 0.7 percent to 0.8 Mbps. Also, the percentage of narrowband connections from India (speeds below 256 kbps) was at 35 percent, while the percentage of broadband connections (speeds above 2 Mbps) was at 4.9 percent.
In the first quarter of 2011, approximately 7 million unique IP addresses from India connected to the Akamai Internet platform. This equates to six unique IPs per 1,000 people on average and represents 21 percent more IP addresses than connected in the fourth quarter of 2010 says the report.
