Akamai

US-based content delivery network Akamai Technologies arranged to add cloud computing capabilities to its portfolio through a $900 million acquisition of infrastructure-as-a-service vendor Linode.

Optus teamed with Akamai Technologies to introduce a self-service IoT platform, providing enterprises secure internet and VPN systems to simplify management of applications and devices.

South Korea continued to have the fastest average broadband speed in the world in Q1, while Singapore maintained its position as the country with the highest average peak connection speed, according to Akamai’s State of the Internet report.

South Korea again topped the world in Q2 with an average broadband connection speed of 27Mb/s, while India was at the bottom of 15 Asia-Pacific countries surveyed with a speed of 3. 6Mb/s, according to Akamai’s State of the Internet report.

The director of China Telecom’s Technology Commission, Wei Leping, claimed the country’s average broadband speed is 5. 1Mb/s, not 3. 4Mb/s as stated by Akamai, putting China in 58th place worldwide, not 82nd.

Content delivery platform company Akamai said that “more than half of the observed mobile attack traffic” recorded by its servers originated from three countries: Italy (25 percent), Brazil (18 percent) and Chile (7.5 percent).