State of the Internet

Monday, January 31st, 2011 John Gallagher, Sr. Public Relations Manager

Akamai, a cloud-based services company that optimizes Web and mobile content and applications, released its State of the Internet Report last week and revealed that mobile consumption, as expected, is increasing. For some mobile providers their customers’ average monthly volume of data consumed doubled year-over-year.

There was good news for mobile workers too in that connection speeds also increased. Globally, the average connection speed reached nearly 2 Mbps and it was in Asia where the fastest connection speeds can be found with South Korea, Hong Kong and Japan leading the way. Connection speeds in Taiwan increased 24 percent reaching an average connection speed of 5 Mbps. The United States still lags behind in 12th place but leads in as the top source of observed attack traffic.

Overall this is good news for mobile workers around the world as improved connectivity, faster speeds and more enterprise applications are made available on multiple devices. One of the Gartner Group’s recent predictions state that one-third of static business intelligence functionality will be accessed on smartphones and tablets by 2013 as business intelligence vendors will offer mobile ‘app’ versions of their applications.

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