Akamai Releases Fourth Quarter 2014 'State of the Internet' Report

March 25, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the global leader in content delivery network (CDN) services, today released its Fourth Quarter, 2014 State of the Internet Report. Based on data gathered from the Akamai Intelligent Platform™, the report provides insight into key global statistics such as connection speeds and broadband adoption across fixed and mobile networks, overall attack traffic, global 4K readiness, and IPv4 exhaustion and IPv6 implementation.

The report also includes insights into several high-profile security vulnerabilities, including Poodle, UPnP attacks, DNS flooders and Yummba Webinject. Data and graphics from the Fourth Quarter, 2014 State of the Internet Report can be found on the Akamai State of the Internet site and through the Akamai State of the Internet app for iOS and Android devices. State of the Internet Report discussions are also taking place on the Akamai Community. "Over the course of 2014, we've seen healthy global growth across all of our key metrics for Internet connectivity, broadband adoption and 4K readiness," said David Belson, editor of the report. "The positive trends make an interesting contrast to a recent study that found 4.4 billion people around the world do not go online, indicating a strong need for continued efforts to improve and deploy Internet infrastructure globally."

Highlights from Akamai's Fourth Quarter, 2014 State of the Internet Report: Global Average Connection Speeds and Global Broadband Connectivity For the third consecutive quarter, the global average connection speed remained above the 4 Mbps "broadband" threshold, increasing a nominal 0.7% to 4.5 Mbps. Quarterly global average connection speed changes were mixed across the top 10 countries/regions, with six seeing increases, three seeing decreases and Switzerland (14.5 Mbps) remaining unchanged.

Among the regions/countries where average connection speeds grew quarter-over-quarter, the largest increase was seen in Sweden (14.6 Mbps), with a modest 3.5% gain. Globally, a total of 98 qualifying countries/regions saw average connection speeds increase in the fourth quarter, with growth rates ranging from 78% in Nepal (2.5 Mbps) down to a meager 0.1% in the Czech Republic (12.3 Mbps). The average connection speed increased 20% globally year-over-year with increases seen in 132 qualifying countries, including growth rates ranging from 0.3% in Morocco (2.4 Mbps) to 146% in Congo (1.3 Mbps).

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Broadband Telecom Industry Calendar Denver/Boulder Colorado

Broadband Industry Calendar USTelecom and broadband industry events allow members of the broadband community to come together in various educational and social forums ranging from conference networking to online webinars and more.

This calendar reflects events held nationwide and sponsored by a wide variety of contributors. Canadian Independent Telecommunications Association 2015 Showcase February 22, 2015 - February 23, 2015
Georgia Telecommunications Association 18th Annual Vendor Showcase Macon, Georgia
February 24, 2015 - February 25, 2015

Colorado Telecommunications Association 2015 Winter Meeting Denver, Colorado
February 25, 2015

FCC Open Commission Meeting Washington, District Of Columbia
February 26, 2015

Iowa Communications Alliance Annual Meeting & Expo Des Moines, Iowa
March 3, 2015 - March 5, 2015

ITA Showcase 2015 Portland, Oregon
March 4, 2015 - March 5, 2015

State Independent Telephone Association of Kansas 2015 Spring Meeting Breckenridge, Colorado March 15, 2015 - March 17, 2015 2015

Minnesota Telecom Alliance Annual Convention & Trade Show St. Paul, Minnesota
March 23, 2015 - March 25, 2015

Telephone Association of New England Spring Symposium South Portland, Maine
March 24, 2015 - March 26, 2015

FCC Open Commission Meeting Washington, District Of Columbia
 March 26, 2015 -

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Social Selling: 10 Actionable Tips From LinkedIn

Here are 10 tips to get you rethinking what you know about social selling, and on the right track:

To build your company’s page following, start running campaigns geared toward people already engaged your company to drive awareness and call to action to follow your LinkedIn page.

Make your Twitter profile as professional as your LinkedIn profile. Use the same photo across your social networks so you’re easily identifiable, and make sure to link up to your LinkedIn profile in your Twitter bio.

Don’t be afraid to get personal on Twitter. It’s a channel to share professional insight, as well as things that interest you outside your every day that support your personal brand.

Get your employees in on the discussion. LinkedIn isn’t relegated to marketing and sales professionals — everyone in your organization should be a thought leader and establish personal brands.

Stop thinking of LinkedIn InMail as a general email channel. Leverage the insights you can gather form profiles and other social networks to indicate that you’ve done research on the person you’re connecting with. For example, reference a blog post you’ve read by that person, or a presentation you viewed.

“Who’s viewed your profile” is a goldmine for helping you make connections with people who already demonstrate an interest in your personal brand. Monitor these visits and send personalized emails from sales reps who manage that particular account with a link to their individual sales rep profile.

Cross-reference your profile viewer’s names with your nurture functionality in marketing automation and establish parameters for when it’s appropriate to shift from nurture communication to a one-on-one dialogue.

Be insights driven and gather intelligence and social information that helps you prepare for sales conversations.

Leverage LinkedIn to create personas based on activity, groups they participate in and, topics of interest. Look for correlating behaviors and defining attributes that align with your target buyers to establish propensity to engage, and even buy.

Demonstrate real value in groups by participating in discussions and sharing relevant content. Sexton suggests a “4 to 1 approach”, to share four update items about news in your industry, customer and partner networks, and one promotional item that supports your company news.

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