Comments on: The Web Just Keeps Getting Bigger (and Faster!)

By: David

David — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:56:43 +0000

One alternative to replace the copper pairs owned by old-world telcos with fiber optics owned by new world companies. Google has its sights on Fiber Optics Networks. Consider Google owning the network right down to the last mile to deliver their services including streaming video. With such a scenario, it is entirely conceivable that telcos will be completely cut out of residential broadband revenue altogether!

By: Oh Its Fast! China’s Broadband Growth, That Is: Broadband News and Analysis «

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:10:13 +0000

[...] penetration rates are closer to 80 percent and even more dismal in certain states, according to data also out today from content delivery network [...]

By: David Belson

David Belson — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:23:36 +0000

@Rabble, @Rohan:
The report was published this morning, and can be downloaded from http://www.akamai.com/stateoftheinternet

By: Rohan Jayasekera

Rohan Jayasekera — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:18:05 +0000

@Rabble: The article did say that the source material hadn’t yet been released.

By: Artruro Jayson

Artruro Jayson — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:49:29 +0000

I haven’t trusted any internal figures for China in at least a decade, and America naturally isn’t taking its intelligence networks into account which don’t run on anything Akamai, at least on the assumption they don’t use Akamai, and where is India placed on this, so the presented figures of this sort of accounting for technological progress of the web are an entertaining exercise when they aren’t taken too seriously, and the internet growth from mainframes to mobile is already a world unto themselves.

By: rabble

rabble — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:25:44 +0000

What the hell? Link to the source material.

By: David Belson

David Belson — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 11:21:46 +0000

@Rohan — you are correct, rounding is involved, which is why there are multiple countries with 5.0 Mbps speeds, but are ranked separately. I’ll take your grouping suggestion into consideration for future reports. (I’m the author of Akamai’s State of the Internet Report.)

By: Top 10 de países con más usuarios de Internet | ReadWriteWeb España

Top 10 de países con más usuarios de Internet | ReadWriteWeb España — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 11:03:19 +0000

[...] El primero es Corea del Sur, con una velocidad de conexión media de 14 Mbps, seguido de la región de Hong-Kong (9,2Mbps) y de Japón (8,5 Mbps). Rumanía destaca en el cuarto lugar y Estados Unidos se queda fuera del Top 10, en la posición número 12, con 5 Mbps, según los datos de Akamai. [...]

By: Rohan Jayasekera

Rohan Jayasekera — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 02:25:13 +0000

The Taiwan average is 5.0 Mb/s and the U.S. average is also 5.0 Mb/s, yet Taiwan is in the top ten but the US isn’t? I presume rounding is involved, but the difference would be less than the “plus or minus” that applies to all these numbers. It would be fairer to rank the three (or more) 5.0 countries as tied for 9th place.

By: Harry Calland

Harry Calland — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 20:12:35 +0000

In the UK we have a Co called BT, They Owen all the copper infrastructure and I think it will probably take two decades to replace it.
PS 5mb download is the best they can do in most places.
H