Delaware ranked No. 1 or 2 in all categories in a quarterly Internet speed report from Akamai Technologies, Inc.
The Third Quarter, 2015 State of the Internet Report is based on data from the company’s platforms, which track broadband Internet speeds.
Delaware ranked in the top tier in some categories with only Washington, D.C. topping the First State.
In one measurement of Internet access speed, Delaware ranked second to Washington, D.C. after average broadband speeds (megabits per second) saw a 27 percent jump in speeds during the third quarter in the nation’s capital. By contrast, Delaware saw an increase of less than 7 percent. Delaware still ranked well above third place Utah.
Delaware did rank first in peak internet connection speeds.
Delaware has been aided by its location along the Northeast Corridor and broadband competition between Comcast and Verizon in portions of the state.
Also, the State of Delaware, Sussex County government and employers have worked to improve broadband access in areas with little broadband access.
The report took note of a shortage of traditional internet addresses using by businesses and organizations as growth continues.
“While we did observe an increase in the number of unique IPv4 addresses connecting to Akamai, the third quarter of 2015 saw the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for North America completely exhaust its available inventory of IPv4 address space,” noted David Belson, editor of the State of the Internet Report. “The continued depletion of IPv4 space, in both North America and around the world, should further spur organizations to expand or accelerate their own IPv6 adoption, particularly as the cost of obtaining IPv4 address space may rise as scarcity increases.”
Other findings highlighted by Akamai included:
- South Korea had the top average connection speed at 20.5 Mbps, despite a year-over-year drop of 19 percent since the third quarter of 2014. That access speed is still somewhat higher than the Delaware figure.
- After a 12 percent quarterly increase in the second quarter, the global average peak connection speed declined a slight 0.9 percent to 32.2 Mbps in the third quarter. This accounts 30 percent year-over-year growth.
- In the U.S., 10 states had 10 percent or more of unique IP addresses connected to Akamai at average speeds of at least 25 Mbps, with the District of Columbia holding the top spot at 22 percent
To learn more and to access the archive of past reports, please visit http://www.stateoftheinternet.com/soti-reports. To download the figures from the Third Quarter, 2015 State of the Internet Report, visit: http://wwwns.akamai.com/soti/soti_q315_figures.zip
