The quarterly publication from Akamai “The State of the Internet” 4th quarter 2009 is available.

The report looks at global internet connectivity such as internet penetration and speed; and security issues such as attack traffic.

According to the report, the top attack traffic originating county is still Russia, originating 13% of the global attacks. Port 445 Port (Used:Microsoft-DS) again was overwhelmingly the top port (74%) targeted by attacks among the top ten countries, in some cases by orders of magnitude more than the next most targeted port.

Global Internet Penetration looks at the number of unique IP addresses seen by Akamai compare to the population of each of those countries. Scandinavian countries top the chart with Norway at number 1.

Within United States, New Jersey is number 1 in the United States Internet Penetration chart with 1.44 Unique IPs per Capita.

Akamai classifies connection speeds into three categories, the “high broadband” is for connections of 5 Mbps or greater, the “broadband” data is for connections greater than 2 Mbps; and the “narrowband” data is for connections slower than 256 Kbps.

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