A report from an online monitoring firm has Delaware ranking at or near the top when it comes to the speed of broadband Internet connections. The report comes from Akamai a cloud computing services and content delivery network based in Massachusetts.
Higher broadband speeds are essential in delivering cloud-based services that allow companies to store and distribute data via remote servers at data centers.
Delaware is the top state for all five measured categories including: average and peak connection speeds, broadband and high broadband connectivity and 4K readiness.
4K streams generally require between 10 – 20 megabits per second of bandwidth. Rankings provide insight into the states most likely to be able to sustain such high -speed streams that could be used for video and other types of transmissions.
On a year-over-year basis, all of the states in the top 10 saw significantly higher average connection speeds as compared to the second quarter of 2013, Akamai reported. New Hampshire had the smallest yearly increase across the group, at a still impressive 20 percent, while Delaware’s 50 percent jump was the largest. Across the whole country, only Kansas saw its average connection speed more than double over the last year, up 106 percent (to 3.4 Mbps). Every state saw more than 10 percent growth on a yearly basis.
The report dealt with numerous issues worldwide including distributed denial of service attacks. This occurs when multiple requests flood a site and cause it to slow down or not function.
Akamai customers reported 270 attacks in the second quarter, down from 283 in the first quarter, marking the second consecutive quarter with a decline and a drop of 15 percent year over year. Although the number of such attacks worldwide is down, the Americas showed an 11 percent increase in the number of attacks, claiming 57 percent of all reported attacks. Meanwhile, Asia Pacific has experienced the largest decline in reported DDoS attacks quarter over quarter, dropping 23 percent from the first quarter to the second quarter.
Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) remained in third place with a modest decline of 14%, amounting to 18 percent of all reported DDoS attacks. In the second quarter, attacks against the high tech sector continued an upward trend with a 60 percent increase.
