Akamai’s globally distributed Intelligent Platform™ allows us to

gather massive amounts of data on many metrics including Internet

connection speeds, network connectivity/availability issues, and

IPv6 adoption progress as well as traffic patterns across leading

web properties and digital media providers. Each quarter, Akamai

publishes the State of the Internet Report based on this data.

This quarter’s report includes data gathered from across the Akamai

Intelligent Platform during the second quarter of 2016, covering

Internet connection speeds and broadband adoption metrics across

both fixed and mobile networks as well as trends seen in this data

over time. In addition, the report includes insight into the state of

IPv4 exhaustion and IPv6 adoption, Internet events and disruptions

that occurred during the quarter, mobile browser usage trends, and

observations from Akamai partner Ericsson regarding data and

voice traffic growth on mobile networks.